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Archives for March 2009
Death by statistics – Facebook could kill Google
FACEBOOK COULD KILL GOOGLE — Analyst (GOOG). Interesting statistical analysis, although I would equate it to technical trading without knowledge of the underlying stock’s business itself. Facebook has been suicidal lately. While one could argue that its redesigns have been for the better, the design churn has aggravated users who find it difficult to find [...]
Emulating Grep in Powershell
Emulating Grep in Powershell. The option presented is to perform a grep on several files. For a search in one file, with results going to output.txt select-string -pattern "{pattern}" -caseSensitive c:\path\to\file.txt > output.txt One note: The lines wrapped at the width of the command window, even when redirected to a file.
Breaking down Tweetdeck configuration and storage.
I decided to look at the possibility of eventually exporting the configuration data contained in TweetDeck: You can find the groups, friends, and columns settings in a SQLite database file in a path like: C:\Documents and Settings\{USERNAME}\Application Data\TweetDeckFast.{some hideously long hex string}\Local Store\td_{version?}_{twitter username}.db I used SQLite database browser to look at this file. (I [...]
Mobile Billing Meter
Billing Meter bit.ly link or Billing Meter tech0x20 link. This isn’t perfect. First of all, some connections are just too slow for a constant refresh rate of less than 20-30 seconds. Secondly, I think many mobile browsers have a refresh cut-off at which point they will ask you if you really want to keep refreshing. [...]
Two page mobile magic 8-ball
Two page mobile magic 8-ball Had to use random numbers to prevent caching of pages by mobile web browsers. It’s entirely possible that I made this workaround too complicated, as I had a file version problem on my local drive (I was updating the wrong file.) The first page uses a random number in a [...]
Mobile Web Browser Magic 8-Ball
Magic 8-Ball. I still want to be able to detect the whether mobile or not so that it will work (and be optimized) for where the user is coming from.
Automatic Save Folder Extension for Firefox
As found in the LifeHacker article Four Experimental Firefox Extensions We’re Into. Automatic Save Folder allows you to specify a place to automatically save files by doman and file name to certain folders. I can never remember which download location is used by which computer, much less find my preferred location for each specific type [...]
Ditch Your Extensions for Bookmarklets
From Lifehacker: Bookmarklets: Ditch Your Extensions for Bookmarklets. This is something I’ve been doing more and more of recently, mainly because I don’t have a separate Firefox extension for everything blog or web 2.0 site that I use. I’ve also ditched the delicious.com extension in favor of bookmarklets that post to two of my own [...]
How to call a Web service by using a client certificate for authentication in an ASP.NET Web application
How to call a Web service by using a client certificate for authentication in an ASP.NET Web application. After getting the following the following error in a .NET app: A client certificate is required. Using Client Certificate Authentication with IIS 6.0 Web Sites.
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