The short-form week of 5–11 May 2014
12 May 2014
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
This document was created automatically from my archive of my Twitter stream. Due to limitations in the Twitter API and occasional glitches in my archiving system, it may not be 100% complete.
Tuesday at 10:15am
To renew my Flickr membership or not, that is the question.—@ndw
Tuesday at 10:15am
RT @statshero: #Privacy is not always just about you. #geotagging #conservationhttp://t.co/Y3PvZ55ytn link via @AnthroPunk @thomaslevine …—@ndw
Wednesday at 08:59am
Wrestling with a Saxon error msg, and the only thing I find on Google is a convo.
between @ndw and @michaelhkay saying "yeah that's weird."—@chrisnitchie
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 07:43am
Is google-code-prettify the state of the art in client side syntax highlighting?—@ndw
@ndwhttp://t.co/PvtiY1vV7O is ok. Lacks line numbers though. http://t.co/WD4dEaJRfc is also ok. Matter of taste? http://t.co/Id8F37mMcr—@gimsieke
@ndw Not sure, but I've always used - and had no problems with - http://t.co/BEC7cxTzSv—@chrisnitchie
Thursday at 03:37pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:17pm
Near as I can tell, @tmobile's web site is unusable. In any browser. On any platform. Doesn't load. Has borked
JS interactions. #uxfail—@ndw
@ndw Sorry for the inconvenience. We’re aware of the site and working to get everything
back up. Contact us here http://t.co/OxI4yTNeJs ^ML—@TMobileHelp
Thursday at 04:44pm
RT @dangillmor: Amazon's patent for taking photos against white background shows US Patent Office's
staggering incompetence http://t.co/AqL…—@ndw
Friday at 07:14am
XML Stars, the journal is out! http://t.co/rotnE9SrJr Stories via @ndw @james_clark @georgebina—@dominixml
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:17am
Is there a gradle/groovy conditional equivalent to the "<available classname='...'>"
construct in ant?—@ndw
@ndw Why not use ANT available from gradle?
ant.available(classname: 'foo', property: 'hasFoo')
if (ant.properties['hasFoo']){ ... }—@madshansen3
Friday at 12:30pm
Programming is like Star Trek: you spend hours designing things like the Enterprise
but forget all your shuttlecraft look like stupid boxes.—@holman
Friday at 12:46pm
I cannot reinforce this statement enough - especially in #education: Today's wisdom about QR codes: http://t.co/UuW6SR1cNZ via @hughstephens—@dccp