a Rafflecopter giveaway
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a Rafflecopter giveaway
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I'm using PyDev for Eclipse on a Mac, and the shortcut happens to be command+/ (command, forward slash.) Just select the block of code that you want to comment out, and use the shortcut key. A "#" will be inserted in front of each line that you highlighted.
With exactly the same lines selected, you can hit the shortcut key again to toggle the comments off. If you happen to select an extra line that was not commented out before, using the comment shortcut will add an additional "#" in front of each line.
The keyboard shortcut is easier to remember when you're using a language that uses slashes in the commenting syntax.
On a PC it's control+/
In a language that has special syntax for multi-line comments, you can use command+shift+/ (on a Mac) or control+shift+/ (on a PC.)
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Check out this awesome h.NAOTO x Hello Kitty cell phone charm that I got from a capsule toy machine in Tokyo. It's full of bad attitude. Yes, that really is the F-word you see on her back side.
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I was working on a brand new, snazzy HTML 5 design for my personal web site, but could not get it to look half decent in Internet Explorer 6 (a 10 year old browser at the time of this writing) and Internet Explorer 7 (a 5 year old browser) without bogging down my web page with hacks and work arounds.
After wrestling with the markup and CSS for weeks, I finally threw in the towel and decided that people using IE6 and IE7 do not deserve to see my new web site.
I added the following configurations to Apache in httpd.conf (.htaccess works too)
RewriteEngine OnRewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !upgrade*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "MSIE 6"
RewriteRule . upgrade.php [L]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !upgrade*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "MSIE 7"
RewriteRule . upgradeagain.php [L]
Which serves up the following 2 pages depending on the browser being used by the visitor.
Internet Explorer 6 users are treated to Tandy Kitteh:
While Internet Explorer 7 users are treated to baby IE7 Kitteh:
Pretty neat for my first time participating, I just hope my recipient wasn't offended by my mischievousness.
The gift that I received was quite impressive too:
I keep a spartan profile with only my name and profile photo displayed, so I was outraged to find that by tagging me as a coworker, my employment information was added to my profile. By someone else, against my will no less. I could only remove the tag after the fact, and even then, it only removed the information from my own profile, and not my coworker's. Severing ties with that coworker (unfriending) didn't help either.
I also tried to find a way to prevent myself from being tagged in this fashion. Users have the option to prevent tagged photos of themselves from being shown. Users also have the option to prevent others from checking you into places. However, there is no option to prevent others from tagging you as a coworker and adding that information to your own profile as well.
This sucks.
]]>If you don't believe me, you can see it for yourself... but act fast because it's going to be replaced with something a little more modern soon™.
For your amusement while I whip up a snazzy new design for this web site, here is a collection of web sites that I have designed in the past. Click on the screenshot below for hilarity to ensue:
(11:20:15 AM) Tim: tuskarr? interesting
(11:20:34 AM) wee: yep for the fishing bonus
(11:20:43 AM) Tim: oh god
(11:20:52 AM) wee: april fool's!
(11:20:58 AM) Tim: balls!
This year, Barbie has a chance to be a computer engineer.
You can vote for your favorite occupation on Barbie.com
It was a pretty productive year in terms of travelling, not a productive year in terms of blogging.
March - Napa
May - Vancouver
August - Hawaii
September - Seattle
October - Toronto
November - Sydney and Melbourne
December - Tanzania
Having visited all 7 continents, I'm pretty much done now. All I have left is to shoot for the moon.
Let 2010 be the year of renewed creativity.
]]>I walked more than half of the way, taking in the scenery and then sped up so I could cross the finish line for real before they diverted the course.
Tim and John came up with our group costume idea: Swine Flu Zombies. I was a butcher/chef who contracted the flu from slaughtering pigs for fresh bacon. The virus I caught mutated and I turned into a zombie. I made the hat the day before the race after flip-flopping on my zombie infection story. I briefly thought about being a zombie hula girl who got pig flu from a roast pig at a luau. I thought people wouldn't really get it unless I told them the story, and zombies don't really talk much, so I went with a simpler yet more over the top costume concept.
Mike was a zombie DJ.
John was a zombie yuppie.
Chrystie was a zombie sorority girl.
Tim was a zombie professional fighter.
Dana was cursed by a Rabbi for being unkosher.
Now that I've done Bay to Breakers for real, I want to do the salmon run next year.
Oh yeah, and now that I have a zombie costume, I can also join the next zombie walk.
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The painting will be of a pair of breasts in any colour (or natural) of the sponsor's choice. A reference image of the sponsor's ideal chest (male or female, nude or not) may be furnished to me. Multiple small donations from the same person may be summed up. In the event of a tie, a draw will be held to select the winner.
| If the donation made by the most generous donor is between | the donor will receive a painting up to |
|---|---|
| $10-$49.99 | 6" x 8" |
| $50.00-$99.99 | 9" x 12" |
| $100-$499.99 | 16" x 20" |
| $500-$999.99 | 20" x 24" |
| $1000+ | 24" x 36" |
More generous donors have the option of choosing a painting that is smaller than the maximum size that I will paint for that sponsorship level. In the event that the gift is refused by the donor, a painting will still be painted, but it will be sold on ebay to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
]]>What set Ms. Henry apart from other educators was her effective teaching methods. Her explanations were always clear and concise. I was turned on to computer programming because she made it seem easy.
She challenged the more astute students with programming competitions. For struggling students, she always had the patience to spend extra time with them, explain concepts again, perhaps differently until it would finally click. She was always very encouraging, never condescending and she would never give up until the material was properly understood. This was especially important because we had to cover the fundamentals.
Ms. Henry not only provided me with the nurture I needed to become a software developer, she also inspired me to become a teacher one day, so that I may show other girls that computer science is not scary or difficult.
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