Dec 07
David MartinezCBBTR, Mac
From this item at macosxhints - Prevent .ds_store creation across multiple user accounts
it turns out its fairly easy to configure an OS X client to apply the setting for any user who logs in.You just need to run this command...
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
...under a single account, then copy the created plist to /Library/Prefrences.
The article also has other ways of going about this, including vetoing files on the samba share directly (clever!)
Dec 07
David MartinezUncategorized
So I'm trying to use Flock (0.5pre) so I can test it as a browser and see how it behaves. The idea is to take as little time possible for blogging and still do it regularly (and well). Flock seems to make it pretty easy. I'm liking the whole "social browsing" thing.
Flock has easy blogging tools built in to let you draft, format, and publish, right from your browser. Flock talks to your blog account and handles all your blogging from one window.
To be fair to flock, they are still a developer preview (which looks awesome by the way). Blogging seems to work okay. However - what I would die for is a source editor right on the blog post editor. I use geshi and therefore I need to go to source to set the source tags and the target language, since I regularly blog source code for my CBBTR (can't be bothered to remember) section.
Update: As you can see in the comments - there IS a source editor. Found it! Thanks! It would be nicer if it was easier to find. 
Now I don't have to worry about going to the admin portion of my website and edit the post again. Love it!
technorati tags: flock, browsing,
Dec 06
David MartinezJava, Ruby
Like many other java developers, I am currently using Spring and
Hibernate, so I can't attest to the quality of RIFE. But I thought this
was interesting: This is a side-by-side
comparison of the RIFE source vs. the Rails source for the
same feature (Ta-da list
vs Bla bla list).
Just another thing to add to the ever-growing list of things to check
out.
Note that I don't have an opinion on this because I don't know both
toolsets (and like many others I don't sound very smart when comparing
something I know vs something I don't know).
Dec 03
David MartinezMozilla XUL
Firefox 1.5 has been released. As a result XUL is cool again. Having dealt with XUL in Mozilla 1.4 through 1.7, I know it has its place on medium-sized projects. It will be interesting to see what happens with this.
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