As a podcatcher (among other things), iTunes sucks. Badly. iPodder is nicer, mainly because I can keep my follow list in the cloud at PodNova. However, it (or the combination with podnova) often ends up downloading gigs of old stuff, on some particular feeds. Worse, it consumes obscene quantities of memory and CPU, with its [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Unix'
BashPodder mod – add podcasts to iTunes
December 4th, 2008 · 4 Comments · SoftwareDev
Tags: Bash·bashpodder·itunes·Podcast·Podcasting·shell·Unix
Man pages that read more like legal contracts
November 17th, 2008 · No Comments · SoftwareDev
Case in point: I want to use "find" to find files I've recently created.
man find (BSD edition):
-ctime n[smhdw] If no units are specified, this primary evaluates to true if the difference between the time of [...]
Tags: Documentation·Man Pages·Unix
SSH Tip: Remember Last Path
February 14th, 2008 · 5 Comments · SoftwareDev
ssh, Unix
Lately, I've been living dangerously and doing a lot of coding on the live server, via ssh. This is all proof-of-concept stuff at Ajaxify. The reason I'm coding live is that it's all widget development and it's just easier that way, since environments like iGoogle and Facebook need to reach my apps live, in [...]
Documentation Needs Examples (Duh)
September 23rd, 2006 · 4 Comments · SoftwareDev
I'm constantly amazed at the amount of documentation people are inclined to create without including a single example.
Man pages that devote pages worth of command-line options, flags, grammar, caveats, historical anecdotes, and NOT A SINGLE EXAMPLE.
Textbooks that devote pages to a particular API, then expose it all in one monolithic program.
Countless reference documentation on HTML [...]
Tags: Documentation·HCI·Screencasts·Unix·Usability
