February 25th, 2004
Textpattern, a content management system written in PHP by Dean Allen (of Textism and Textile fame), has just been released to the public.
Curiousity piqued by what it promised to offer about a year ago (when it was in closed development), I made it a point to check out Textpattern once any release is made. I took a quick install and run through of Textpattern gamma 1.11 and am pleased to report that it delivers on its promises. This has the makings of the next big weblog publishing tool (bigger than MT?), or even the next big CMS. More on this after I play around with it a bit more.
February 23rd, 2004
This is the error message I get when I try to open 2 documents with the same name, but in different directories, in Microsoft Excel:
A document with the name ‘CR.wine.GA.1.csv’ is already open. You cannot open two documents with the same name, even if the documents are in different folders.
To open the second document, either close the document that’s currently open, or rename one of the documents.
Emphasis mine. Why can’t I? We’ll never know how Excel is implemented (unless there’s a MS Office source code leak), but this is pretty dumb if you ask me, considering how easy it is to get by this technical difficulty. Perhaps there is some perfectly rational explanation why there is absolutely no way that Excel would be able to work with 2 documents of the same name, or if there is, it is more work than it’s worth. I’d like to hear that explanation.
Oh wait, I believe I should Google it. Hmm… Toby Allen reports the same thing, and Joel Spolsky has this plausible explanation:
“I think it’s because when you have an external reference (of the form foo.xls!A1) they only had 8 bytes in the data structure to store the file name. It’s kind of shocking that 10 years later nobody has fixed this, …
Well, still not fixed in Office 2003.
February 22nd, 2004
Jesse Ruderman points out this cute(?) anime version of the Firefox logo.
Via Jesse Ruderman via noririty
February 21st, 2004
Came across this Download Manager extension for Firefox in the MozillaZine forums. It saves some screen real-estate by compacting out unused whitespace and looks better. Whether the interface is more intuitive is up for contention.
February 21st, 2004
Note: I am not inviting anyone I don’t know even a bit of anymore! I’ve been getting a good number of requests and I have decided that it just isn’t right to invite just anybody. Please do not ask for an invite. Thanks for your understanding.
… You forgot the most important thing - your email address!
I’ve been getting a couple of people coming in from Ben’s Thought Crimes asking if I was willing to invite them into Orkut when they noticed I gave Ben an invite when he asked. I don’t really like to do so, but I could invite people I don’t know (I know Ben, sort of, so that’s different) when they ask politely. But it’s hard to do so when there isn’t a way I can get back to them, much less get Orkut to send out an invitation (Orkut sends invites via email).
Not that Orkut really does anything for me at the moment. If you want to see what it’s all about, fine, I may send you an invite, but I’ll “delete” you as a “friend” after that.
Textpattern - a promising CMS sprouts its wings
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