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Blog Posts and Measuring Customer Abandonment?

Robert — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:27:56 +0000

My quick blog entry about uninstalling Evernote on the Mac has been seeing a small spike of hits in the last few days. It has been making me think about ways to measure customer abandonment.

Quick Tip: SVN over SSH using TortoisePlink

Robert — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:50:18 +0000

This place is as good as any to jot down the following tip…

TortoiseSVN kicks ass. Of course, there are times when it’s more practical to use svn in the command line, but if your repository only talks to you over ssh, instead of going through hoops to configure OpenSSH, just use TortoisePlink. It’s part of the TortoiseSVN install.

Your Subversion config file is buried in
C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Subversion\config

Using your favorite text editor, find the definition of ssh. It’ll probably be something like
ssh = $SVN_SSH

Change it to
ssh = TortoisePlink.exe

Painless!

PHP Cracks Me Up Sometimes

Robert — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:19:00 +0000

This should probably go under “it’s really funny right now, but will seem very uninteresting tomorrow.”

FRIEND: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.is-writable.php ME: haha FRIEND: yeah ME: is_that_what_i_think_it_is() FRIEND: is_that_really_what_i_think_it_is() ME: aliased to is_this_what_i_really_want() FRIEND: i looked it up real quick because someone had the wrong spelling in it in our code ME: which returns constats, including IM_NOT_SURE_WHY_DONT_U_ASK_PERL_THAT ME: haha that's a funny blog write up ME: i think i'll write it now FRIEND: yay

Stupid Web Tricks: Orbiting Domo-Kun

Robert — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:47:59 +0000

I just whipped up this simple orbiting domo-kun animation in JavaScript. After playing around with JavaScript’s Math trig methods (particularly Math.sin and Math.cos), one thing led to another, and after watching a few domo-kun videos on YouTube, I was inspired to use its picture in the effect.