Q.I. Productions – a wombat, the sink, and how it got there

[From Coding Horror: You're Doing It Wrong]
Jeff Atwood talks about templating engines (for generating html) being wrong… and I agree, with code like this:

<%foreach (var User in Users) { %>
<div class=”action-time”><%= ActionSpan(User)%></div>
<% if (User.IsAnonymous) { %>
<div class=”gravatar32″><%= RenderGravatar(User)%></div>
<div class=”details”><%= RepSpan(User)%><br/><%= Flair(User)%></div>
<% } else { %>
<div class=”anon”>anonymous</div>
<% } %>
<% } %>

But, and I might be biased [...]

Tinkering in Writer.app last night, I had a couple of usability niggles that kept digging and digging at me. So, of course, I had to tinker with the app. And Acorn. The result was this:

[From Writer.app]

A set of new icons for the toolbar that look startlingly better on Leopard, and a new delete [...]

Turns out I am a baby, I guess:

Had to take that “I’m not a baby, for the love of Pete, please let me switch between apps” option off because I was switching between apps far too much. While I don’t think I’m quite doing NaNoWriMo, I managed to get in a good session of NaChildrensBookWriMo [...]

So that suspenseful post didn’t last long…
Horos is out now… For those of you who are huge, huge fans of the Sane Magazine horoscopes, who also happen to have a Mac. Which has the latest and greatest version of Mac OS X (10.5) installed on it. Which also has access to the Internet. So for [...]

QIClock:
v. 2.1.1 You can now update timezone based on the timezone name or abbreviation (this feature requested by L. for easy lookup of Australian timezones).
This app, in its current incarnation, was driven by a little lunchtime musing with L (from L) about what a pain it was, sometimes, working across timezones, and wouldn’t it be [...]

QIClock:
QIClock was written primarily for the developers, who found themselves dealing with coworkers on all sorts of different time zones, particularly those with the gall to reside on the other side of the international date line (should you, like the sun, only conceptually travel East to West).
It might also come in handy if you’re attempting [...]

I have no idea, nor do I have the time to look into why the Sane mails have suddenly stopped.
I rewrote the mailer to move from nail to a python-based mailer, which *looks* like it’s doing the deed, but, umm, doesn’t.
So I’m thinking of moving to FeedBurner, if only to provide email subscription access to [...]

Big Bad Book Blog » Blog Archive » Chipping Away at Writer’s Block:
1) Free Write
One of the best ways to get your creative juices moving again is to write–about anything. It doesn’t even have to be good. Just sit down, pen in hand, and let the ideas flow. A great way to [...]

mediabistro.com: GalleyCat:
[Writing his new book, God Save the Fan] took him just five months, on a separate computer that isn’t connected to the Internet and only runs Word (and Minesweeper)
Sounds a bit like what Writer.app does, only without, you know, buying/having a separate computer part.