njr 3.0

Today was chaos and I didn't get much work done.

Those folks in the U of I Registration building have things cushy,
they all had Aeron chairs and beautifully laid out offices.

And it took this one guy about 5 minutes to do my late registration.
It went something like this. Look at my forms, type for a while.
Wander off to another office to retrieve a printout. Type for a while
longer. Consult one binder of fees. Put that away. Consult another
binder. Answer the phone. Print out two copies of my fee schedule,
on the printer on his desk. Type some more. Tell me to go off
somewhere else to pay my money.

About 10 minutes elapsed total, two computers, two printers, binders,
much clicking and typing. That includes my interaction with the (very
nice) receptionist and my wait for the guy. Something is definitely
wrong there.

Going to help Chris Lattner
and his girlfriend/roommates move a sofa tonight, because I'm the guy
with the pickup truck. Joy.

Patrick Beard has a
weblog now. Didn't know he played the saxophone. Maybe there's a
Steve Zellers connection from when Patrick worked at Apple?

Norbert Heger (LaunchBar author) got back to me about the Finder
selection thing, it's working, he likes it, I knew there were some
bugs in the error handling which I'll deal with tomorrow night, I
hope.

5:55 PM | Radio
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Ugh, the template's messed up there too. Fix tomorrow. Sleep now.

9:53 PM | Radio
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Nat posted a question on the Boston BBS about why the fonts in FirstClass Client for OS X look so weird, and I decided to investigate.

Since it was kind of long, I moved it to a Story page: Mac OS X 10.1.2 Font Rendering.

9:51 PM | Radio
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Fixed a CSS referencing bug where the archived pages wouldn't get a style sheet. They still looked OK, just not the same as the main page.

3:52 PM | Radio
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Finished (239 lines of code). That was a lot more complicated than I imagined.

Hints: AEGizmos has been part of Carbon since Carbon 1.1, but that's not documented anywhere (thanks Meeroh). The functions are defined in AEHelpers.h.

Set the AEDebug* environment variables for enlightenment on what events you are sending, without needing to use AEGizmos.

Oh, I forgot to mention what I wrote this for. LaunchBar. I had a feature I wanted so bad that I wrote it myself. Well, most of it at that rate. It's nice working with a company where you can correspond with the programmer, even if the program isn't open source.

Now back to research…

2:43 PM | Radio
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