Last year I bought a greenlight trigger from Green Light Products. Installation was easy; I left it clamped overnight. Does it work? Yes, definitely. The only problem is at history has shown me, I don’t seen to actually use many intersections that utilize this approach for changing lights :).
Author: grant
A Friendlier Powershell Prompt
function prompt {
$user = [Environment]::UserName;
$computer = gc env:computername;
$dir = [Environment]::CurrentDirectory=(Get-Location -PSProvider FileSystem).ProviderPath;
$user + "@" + $computer + ":" + $dir + ">"
}
This post helped with the last part.
Graphviz on Windows 7 64-bit Works on CMD but not Powershell
My friend at work struggled for hours to get Graphviz on Windows 7 64-bit working. We tried everything, and finally narrowed it down to one difference: he was using Powershell and I was using CMD.
Gambit REPL app for iPhone/iPod touch/iPad
Check it out here.
(via comp.lang.scheme)
Spring 2011 Oil Change
Doug helped me change the oil this Spring:
- Change motor oil & filter
- 3L Shell Rotella T 15W40 JASO MA API SH
- Fram CH6012
- Odometer: 9987 miles
Programming PIC microcontrollers with Objective Caml
Clipped fonts in Emacs
The awesome pretty-mode for Emacs displays symbols of your choosing rather than text for specified patterns. For example if you have a lot of Greek letter names in your MATLAB code you might just have the symbol show up instead.
After upgrading to Emacs version 23 on Windows (GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2011-03-10 on 3249CTO) though the symbols get clipped off. Here is what I mean:
When I place the cursor on the lambda in this case, it renders correctly:
However, when I modify the buffer, the characters again renders incorrectly.
When I type in the Unicode characters directly; they render just fine.
My current approach for figuring out what is going on has been to read the code and the Elisp API. From what I can see, it “looks right”. Right now I’m just documenting it here to try to get a pointer on where to look next.
In-Source Documentation in Racket
The scribble/srcdoc and scribble/extract libraries support writing documentation within the documentation code along with an export contract, similar to using JavaDoc.
Very nice.
(via racket)
Concurrent Eiffel
Seemingly without much fanfair, SCOOP is released with Eiffel here. Wow.
Hopefully I’m not the only one who finds this exciting.
Ben's 11 Concepts The Emacs Newbie Should Master
Here are Ben’s top 11; they are nice.