http://www.gooli.org/blog on software development and related issues Mon, 26 May 2008 08:17:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How many times have you typed an entire URL looking at your keyboard only to lift your eyes and see that you've used the wrong keyboard layout? How many times have you typed your email into some obscure form on the internet only to find that you've typed some unintelligible ... http://www.gooli.org/blog/wrong-keyboard-layout/ One of the first things we needed to do when we started working on Testuff, was to figure out how are we going to update the installed desktop clients. This is one of those problems that seems to usually fall under the NIH syndrome, and like many others before me, ... http://www.gooli.org/blog/digging-into-pythons-pyc-files/ I use the Win+R combination to run almost all the applications I use. Hit Win+R, type firefox, and Firefox runs. Hit Win+R, type winword, and Word starts. Hit Win+R..., well you get the idea. The Run dialog is great to quickly access applications you use, but it's only usable for programs ... http://www.gooli.org/blog/a-very-simple-winr-enhancement/ Whenever I install Firefox on a new computer, I find myself hitting Ctrl-Shift-X to switch the text box direction to now avail. Unfortunately the way to turn this option on is quite hidden. You have to navigate to about:config, type bidi in the filter box, and double click the line that ... http://www.gooli.org/blog/right-to-left-bidi-support-in-firefox-3/ I've been using Miranda for all my chats for a few years now, since the time it was a nightmare to install and configure. The chief reason I like it is the fact that it supports Hebrew amazingly well, via the TabSRMM plugin. You can even set the right-to-left settings ... http://www.gooli.org/blog/win32-getfocus-across-process-boundries/ It's a very exciting time for us here at Testuff as our product has finally reached a point where it can actually be used by real people. You can't use testing software unless you can report bugs, and until now we could only report bugs to Trac. Now, with the ... http://www.gooli.org/blog/133/ I learned touch typing a long time ago. Since I spend most of my waking hours in front of a computer typing either text or code, touch typing is something I can't live without. Sometimes however, I am faced with a daunting task of writing an email or a document ... http://www.gooli.org/blog/touch-typing-in-multiple-languages-recaps/ Apparently the nick name I've been called since my first week at the army has different meanings in different languages. And some are not so pleasant :) Sarah Siegel writes: "Channa, I don't want to forget to ask you for a word today. How do you say, 'Bull' in ... http://www.gooli.org/blog/what-gooli-really-means/ I'm taking a course on building compilers at the Israeli Open University and just learned how to use flex. It occurred to me that building a simple lexical analyzer should be quite easy with Python's re module. A typical lexical analyzer read a stream of text input and splits it ... http://www.gooli.org/blog/a-simple-lexer-in-python/ DreamHost is a web hiosting company. I've never hosted anything with them, but now I might. They've been EVICTED from their office spaces for drunken behaviour and other types of misconduct and they've blogged about it, with pictures and all (you should also read the comments, they are quite funny). ... http://www.gooli.org/blog/dreamhost-pr-stunt/