Eric F. Savage - Latest Comments

Re: Enabling Buttons on Apple Keyboard in Windows

Adrian Fedoreanu — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:57:48 -0000

F13::PrintScreen

Re: Enabling Buttons on Apple Keyboard in Windows

Michael — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:53:42 -0000

Thanks for this, been looking for something to do this for 4 years

Re: Enabling Buttons on Apple Keyboard in Windows

Anjan — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:16:04 -0000

sweet. works awesome.

Re: To switch or not to switch, part 3

Peter — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:34:28 -0000

I think you might want to add Jython --- Python written in Java to run on the JVM. In some ways this may be the best of both worlds; write Python (much more enjoyable than Java) to build Java classes. (I use standard Python, so I'm telling you what I've read not what I've done.) If you're interested you can extend this idea with ABCL, a lisp that compiles to JVM code. The upshot is that you can use each language to do what it does best and then run your project on any platform with a JVM.

Re: Enabling Buttons on Apple Keyboard in Windows

mike — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:56:07 -0000

Is there anyway to customize this?

Re: Workstation Setup 2011

John C — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:37:18 -0000

Thanks for the post. I agree with Josh. RoboForm is a much better password manager.

Re: Workstation Setup 2011

Josh Grubbet — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:03:21 -0000

Last pass is not a good password manager. ive used RoboForm my whole life and I would recommend RF to anyone

Re: Life After JSON, Part 1

Sri — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:50:12 -0000

I had issues with JSON, By using JSON for everything, we are making the data flow from/to front end to/from backend. I will go with simpler, plain approach rather making the things more complicated

Re: The Most Important Performance Metric

Erich — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:26:04 -0000

Looking forward to building my machine in a month or so.

Re: Books as Clutter

Gregor J. Rothfuss — Tue, 31 May 2011 17:47:32 -0000

i'd like to see an amnesty for books. provide some proof of owning books and get free access to the digital equivalent. one way might be that you have to donate books to a library / nonprofit as proof. you'd physically haul in your books and get credit for each book.

this would cost almost nothing (other than negotiating with confused rights holders), as you are very unlikely to re-buy a book you already own, and it would create heaps of good press for all the ebook service, which still have an uphill battle to fight against the installed base. imagine all the shelf space / clutter cleared up around the world!

Re: To switch or not to switch, part 3

phil — Fri, 27 May 2011 11:28:56 -0000

Python's threads are not your friend if you are doing CPU-bound work (due to the GIL).

For me, UTF-8 is a hard requirement. Consider the major trends in the world (i.e. the rise of Asia, globalization in general). One cannot make a credible case that a language without at least very good UTF-8 support is a reasonable choice today, let alone in the future.

Re: To switch or not to switch, part 3

Eric Savage — Fri, 27 May 2011 09:26:11 -0000

I stand corrected! I was under the misconception that Python threads were a hack based around GIL, but obviously had never actually used them.

Utf-8 support is a good one. I'm not sure if I'd go so far as to say a hard requirement, but lacking it would certainly be a major demerit. If I set the bar on that as high as where Java is I think the list would shrink to only JVM languages?

Re: To switch or not to switch, part 3

Phil — Fri, 27 May 2011 07:59:18 -0000

Python does have threads!

Utf-8 support should be a hard requirement also.

Re: Why don’t websites have credits?

Eric Savage — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:32:35 -0000

What a great idea! I'm definitely going with that approach (in addition to a footer-type link).

Re: Why don’t websites have credits?

cancel bubble — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:27:40 -0000

http://humanstxt.org/

Re: Logging Like it’s 2002

Eric Kim — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:10:16 -0000

Thank you for your article. I cited your site.

Re: Enabling Buttons on Apple Keyboard in Windows

lenjerie intima — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:50:08 -0000

Thanks allot, this is just what I’m looking for – no more plugging in my old hp keyboard just to get a screen capture.

Re: Enabling Buttons on Apple Keyboard in Windows

Flavio — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:03:36 -0000

Cheers for this Eric. Handy scripts!

Re: Java Goofs: Enhanced For Loop

Harish — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:24:49 -0000

I totally agree with the post interms of null pointer check.. Though this is a very old post, I just came across this and thought of commenting on it.

Re: Enabling Buttons on Apple Keyboard in Windows

Jim — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 02:04:23 -0000

How about F1 F2?
will these two func keys also work with this script?

Re: Enabling Buttons on Apple Keyboard in Windows

Jamie Harrington — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:21:14 -0000

Seriously, you're a total badass for this. I am freakin' in love with the mac keyboard, but was really missing my volume keys! Thank you so much!!! Worked like a charm on Windows 7!

Re: Enabling Buttons on Apple Keyboard in Windows

Dave R. — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:00:37 -0000

What a great little find! I have a Mac and a PC and share the keyboard between them. This script is brilliant! Thanks so much.

Re: All time favorite television characters

Albern Mccoy — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:25:37 -0000

1. Professor Roy Hinckley, Gilligan’s Island (Russel Johnson)2. Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce, M*A*S*H (Alan Alda)3. Mork, Mork & Mindy (Robin Williams)
+1

Re: All time favorite television characters

Gary Pinkham — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:09:13 -0000

1. Archie Bunker "all in the Family" (Carroll O'Connor)
2. Tobias Funke "Arrested Development" (David Cross)
3. Fleagle "Banana Splits"

Re: Enabling Buttons on Apple Keyboard in Windows

Ash — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:41:30 -0000

Is there a way to get backspace (or is it delete) to work with this?