Watching Bruce now… should be fun.
On Safari: Learning Unix for Mac OSX
In the room: Doc asking how we can try to keep ourselves from being marched on our Trail of Tears. I hope it doesn’t come down to a last stand (and if it does, I hope we can organize together and win).
Wow, slapping my forehead on this one. I’ve been wondering how to navigate through dialog box options in OS X for quite a while, and couldn’t understand why there wasn’t anything in the Universal Access preferences and why the help wasn’t working. Apparently in 10.1, there is Full Keyboard Access for Section 508 Compliance, but you actually have to go in the Keyboard preference item and click a checkbox in the second tab to turn it on. For the life of me, I can’t understand why Full Keyboard Access isn’t on by default. An interesting usability issue. While you get a second selector you can move around, say in dialog boxes with the tab key, you need to click space to activate that option. The Enter key will always activate the highlighted default. This highlighted tab is completely different from the selector you can control. That’s very stupid. Also, while the Apple Help lets you search for shortcuts by article title, and there is an ADC Keyboard Focus and Navigation article, there’s no 1-screen quick reference, which, well, there really should be.
jack writes a letter to pyra. Yes, Pyra was way cooler in 2000 than 2002. *sigh*
How to parse a well behaved CSV using a regex in Perl 5:
while( m{
(^|,)
(?: "([^"]*)"
|
([^,"]*) )
}xg) {
$f = $+
$f = $^N # version 5.8 named reference
}
That’s the maintainable code version. here’s how you’d probably see it out in the wild:
while(m{(^|,)(?:"([^"]*)"|([^,"]*) ) }xg){$f = $+}
Of course, the scary part is that I now understand this.
Dammit, I need to slap Sterling Hughes. I noticed myself unconsciously describing certain technologies as sexy last night.
Saw this the other day, but here’s a link: RealNetworks Shows Up at the Open Source Party. They’re going to be speaking at the conference tomorrow @ 1PM apparently. Here’s a list of some other things not in the print brochure, although I guess the grid is the canonical schedule.
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There is some OSCON Schedule data available in various formats (HTML, XML, Palm, etc.). Neet.
Also, noticed aaronsw online and it turns out he was right down the hall. Chatted a little w/ him. Also, he added my MP3 recordings to the list of Everything About All Sessions OSCon 2002 Grid, which I’m assuming eventually will have a list to all sorts of notes and whatnot.
OK, I have some temporary OSCON MP3’s up. This is way easier than typing notes.