I've been using BBEdit since version 4 (five years ago?). I was pretty much a hardcore Mac geek back then (thank goodness for the mellowness of age), and BBEdit was one of my primary reasons for defending the Mac platform.
Today I'm a freelance web developer, writing apps in Perl, PHP, ASP, and of course straight up HTML. BBEdit has been an invaluable tool for my work, and along with OS X's fantastic networking support, I can edit all of my Mac, Unix, and Windows projects from my lone G4 workstation. The CVS integration in version 7 is fantastic...I now use it to manage version control for all those disparate projects. It's a beautiful thing.
However, I am also saddened to read that BBEdit Lite is gone. I would never have become a hardcore BBEdit user if it weren't for the Lite version to help me get my feet wet. I'd probably still be stuck at some ad agency creating web pages in Dreamweaver (ick) or GoLive (double ick!). I worry that new adoption of BBEdit will come to a halt.
At the same time, they deserve the money. Not only does BareBones make some great applications, but their customer service is tremendous. On more than one occasion I've bitched at them for this or that, and they've always responded quickly and courteously, even when I've been wrong. I even had a brief e-mail chat with one of their developers discussing the pros and cons of tabbed documents.
So, on the one hand, their apps rule; on the other hand, they may be shooting themselves and future developers in the foot for charging for what was once free; on the third hand, their apps still rule, as does their customer support, and this should be worth a few bucks to people.
I'm an independent web developer who is unhappily dependent on ftp. The main problem is that none of the companies that host my clients' web sites offer secure ftp. More often than not, I inherit web sites that are already hosted somewhere, and the client is not interested in switching providers.
I have recently partnered with a hosting company that can support secure ftp, and I'm working on getting that going. However, there's no way I can convince all (or even most) of my clients to change host providers at a higher cost, just because the ftp is secure. I suppose I could try to strongarm them into it, but, well, I'd kind of like to keep my clients.
It seems to me that if web hosting companies would start encouraging sftp, then us web developers could start phasing out this ugly ftp stuff. That should (hopefully) get the ball rolling.
Let's start a grassroots campaign! "Nerds Against FTP" (NAFTP) Soon we'll start seeing green "FTP Free" banners everywhere!
During Thanksgiving dinner at my parent's house in a Chicago suburb, one of our traditional family guests brought up this very same problem. He's a bowhunter who makes frequent trips up to Wisconsin to snag a few deer. He has had two friends recently die of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, and while there is still as yet no proof that the disease came from a deer, both unfortunate victims had eaten game deer within a few months prior to contracting the disease.
His policy now is never to shoot a lame looking deer. In fact, he only shoots healthy looking bucks, no doe (does?) or fawns. He figures if the deer is a strong healthy buck, it's much less likely to be infected. One of his hunting partners will sometimes kill a lame looking deer for the sake of a) putting it out of its misery and b) keeping it from infecting any other animals.
Apparently, you can no longer transport a deer carcass across the Wisconsin state line into Illinois. You can transport the cut and packaged meat, but not the whole animal. You are also encouraged to donate what parts of the carcass you don't take home with you to the reserve from whence you killed it, so it can be studied.
Scary stuff, indeed. Starts getting me thinking about becoming a vegetarian, even though I love venison.
-SB
A couple Per(sona)|l questions....
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I have a personal question and a Perl question...
Personal: I read your diary about your eye surgery from a few years back. How're the ol' peepers doing now?
Perl question: I also read your speech about Perl being a "postmodern" programming language. I've been listening to some Charles Ives lately -- yeah, that's about as much Perl in music as you can get.;-)
Anyway, I'm curious how you view Perl 6 in a postmodern light. It sure seems more postmodern-ish than any Perl before it. Not only are you building in some of Perl's legacy postmodern ideas, but also the ability to add (post)?modernism from other languages. You're taking this postmodern stuff pretty seriously! Which, of course, is extremely cool and nifty.
Is this an intentional direction toward postmodernism, or does all this just happen to fit the term? In other words, has postmodernism been a philosophy that has intentionally driven the vision and development of Perl 6?
I'd like to mention the following quote from your speech: "The very fact that it's possible to write messy programs in Perl is also what makes it possible to write programs that are cleaner in Perl than they could ever be in a language that attempts to enforce cleanliness."
Will Perl 6 continue to be the programmer's humble, submissive servant?:-)
A couple points that were brought up that I'd like to address....
First, as to why Macs aren't common web servers, I think the main reasons are cost of the hardware, difficulty in maintaining/upgrading, and lack of expandability. Of course, Apple sort of addressed this with the XServe, but it's still a hell of a lot cheaper to buy, say, an Athlon based PC with Linux than a whole PowerMac.
Second, as to why people are bashing MS for security holes and praising Apple for fixing them, let's keep in mind Microsoft makes their own web server software. Apple is putting in place fixes to programs they did not create, so they need a little more time to get the details and make a fix. Having said that, I agree that Apple could be a bit quicker about it.
-Suffering Bastard (runs web, mail, mp3, and file serving off various OS X boxen)
Depends on how you define computer crime. Mitnick may have downloaded proprietary information, but he didn't use it for any personal gain. Why should he go to jail for life?? A kid proclaims his love by defacing a corporate web site -- is this just grounds for destroying him?
What if I donated money to help get Mitnick (or Sklyarov) out of jail? Does this make me a harborer of terrorism?
This proposal is far too broad. Anyone know of any public protests?
Just to add my name to the list, my company's server has also been hit. It turns out the servers sends TWO files to the client: a readme.eml, and a readme.exe. I'm gonna setup a test box to see what these files do.
>>The acting (largely to the fault of the director) was excruciatingly weak and thoroughly unbelievable. The characterizations were pathetic.<<
I agree whole-heartedly, although I have not read the book. From watching the series I got the impression of immense potential unrealized. All interesting metaphors and passionate moments were ruined by bad acting, bad special effects, and weak camera work. The costumes were interesting, though.
-Brian --
if ($good != $safe) {
eval(++$risk);
&take_action(rand($decision));
What is the line from that Sting tune? "Scientific means to bliss, will supercede the human kiss".
It is truly unfortunate that some parents who scream about games ruining their children miss the real cause of their child's errant behavior. It's easy to blame it on gaming, since providing the attention and social adjustment skills every child needs (including teenagers) takes a lot more energy and thought. When a child of, say, 16 cannot relate to his or her peers, he may indulge himself in gaming, where it's easy to pretend you're someone else and there is some sense of virtual participation.
This can in fact lead to an unhealthy addiction, but gaming itself can surely not be blamed. And how can you heap blame on a misguided 16 year old? What is important above all is to find a way to engage the child in real social interaction so he can see for himself the difference between 'real life' and 'virtual life' as well as find the true richness within the characters of real people. He may also discover his own richness, which is the first step toward becoming truly creative.
I believe gaming is a real counter culture, but I don't see it as the seed of a revolution. A true and healthy revolution can only come from those who are educated in the arts and history of humanity and gaming by no means provides this. Who'd have the energy to lead a revolution when you can sit at Diablo II for hours, mindlessly hacking at zombies and demons? Perhaps it's the gaming manufacturers who are leading the culture, not the gamers themselves.
Being the Unreal Tournament addict that I am, I can understand the attraction to gaming over, say, a walk in a public park. While I don't think this is dangerous to the fabric of society, I do believe it can harm the future social abilities of young people. Perhaps a mass social malaise is imminent -- or perhaps gamers will awake one day and realize the scent of a garden, or the shade of a tree, is far more satisfying than a frag with a rail gun.
-Brian --
if ($good != $safe) {
eval(++$risk);
&take_action(rand($decision));
>>Here's something to chew on from Alexander Tyler<<
Pardon my ignorance, but who's Alexander Tyler? Any relation to president John Tyler?
Love the quote. But...
>>Vote Libertarian, before it's too late.
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have" - Thomas Jeffeson<<
Government too small to supply anything is worthless. My personal view is that Libertarianism is a bit too close to anarchy. I happen to like gun control, the EPA, and the NEA. Or at least I like their intended purposes. Without some amount of central governmental control, I can't see how a society as diverse and populated as ours could survive.
I'll most likely be voting for Nader. The beauty of third parties is they actually address real problems without fear of not pleasing a certain demographic. Their solutions may range from radical to ludicrous (Buchanan), but at least they talk about what the "mainstream" politicos avoid like the plague.
Let's shake up the current trend of complacency... vote third party!
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"Where do you want to come today?"
(sorry)
I've been using BBEdit since version 4 (five years ago?). I was pretty much a hardcore Mac geek back then (thank goodness for the mellowness of age), and BBEdit was one of my primary reasons for defending the Mac platform.
Today I'm a freelance web developer, writing apps in Perl, PHP, ASP, and of course straight up HTML. BBEdit has been an invaluable tool for my work, and along with OS X's fantastic networking support, I can edit all of my Mac, Unix, and Windows projects from my lone G4 workstation. The CVS integration in version 7 is fantastic...I now use it to manage version control for all those disparate projects. It's a beautiful thing.
However, I am also saddened to read that BBEdit Lite is gone. I would never have become a hardcore BBEdit user if it weren't for the Lite version to help me get my feet wet. I'd probably still be stuck at some ad agency creating web pages in Dreamweaver (ick) or GoLive (double ick!). I worry that new adoption of BBEdit will come to a halt.
At the same time, they deserve the money. Not only does BareBones make some great applications, but their customer service is tremendous. On more than one occasion I've bitched at them for this or that, and they've always responded quickly and courteously, even when I've been wrong. I even had a brief e-mail chat with one of their developers discussing the pros and cons of tabbed documents.
So, on the one hand, their apps rule; on the other hand, they may be shooting themselves and future developers in the foot for charging for what was once free; on the third hand, their apps still rule, as does their customer support, and this should be worth a few bucks to people.
Today's word is "ambivalence."
I'm an independent web developer who is unhappily dependent on ftp. The main problem is that none of the companies that host my clients' web sites offer secure ftp. More often than not, I inherit web sites that are already hosted somewhere, and the client is not interested in switching providers.
I have recently partnered with a hosting company that can support secure ftp, and I'm working on getting that going. However, there's no way I can convince all (or even most) of my clients to change host providers at a higher cost, just because the ftp is secure. I suppose I could try to strongarm them into it, but, well, I'd kind of like to keep my clients.
It seems to me that if web hosting companies would start encouraging sftp, then us web developers could start phasing out this ugly ftp stuff. That should (hopefully) get the ball rolling.
Let's start a grassroots campaign! "Nerds Against FTP" (NAFTP) Soon we'll start seeing green "FTP Free" banners everywhere!
-SB
Hi,
.ico format.
I noticed that Safari supports any graphics format for shortcut icons while Internet Explorer only supports the
Slashdot uses this tag for its site icon:
<LINK REL="shortcut icon" HREF="/favicon.ico" TYPE="image/x-icon">
In Safari, the following would also work:
<LINK REL="shortcut icon" HREF="/favicon.jpg" TYPE="image/jpeg">
(assuming you had a correctly named 16x16 gif there, of course)
IE only supports the first option.
Just a bit of trivial information...
His policy now is never to shoot a lame looking deer. In fact, he only shoots healthy looking bucks, no doe (does?) or fawns. He figures if the deer is a strong healthy buck, it's much less likely to be infected. One of his hunting partners will sometimes kill a lame looking deer for the sake of a) putting it out of its misery and b) keeping it from infecting any other animals.
Apparently, you can no longer transport a deer carcass across the Wisconsin state line into Illinois. You can transport the cut and packaged meat, but not the whole animal. You are also encouraged to donate what parts of the carcass you don't take home with you to the reserve from whence you killed it, so it can be studied.
Scary stuff, indeed. Starts getting me thinking about becoming a vegetarian, even though I love venison.
-SB
Personal: I read your diary about your eye surgery from a few years back. How're the ol' peepers doing now?
Perl question: I also read your speech about Perl being a "postmodern" programming language. I've been listening to some Charles Ives lately -- yeah, that's about as much Perl in music as you can get. ;-)
Anyway, I'm curious how you view Perl 6 in a postmodern light. It sure seems more postmodern-ish than any Perl before it. Not only are you building in some of Perl's legacy postmodern ideas, but also the ability to add (post)?modernism from other languages. You're taking this postmodern stuff pretty seriously! Which, of course, is extremely cool and nifty.
Is this an intentional direction toward postmodernism, or does all this just happen to fit the term? In other words, has postmodernism been a philosophy that has intentionally driven the vision and development of Perl 6?
I'd like to mention the following quote from your speech:
"The very fact that it's possible to write messy programs in Perl is also what makes it possible to write programs that are cleaner in Perl than they could ever be in a language that attempts to enforce cleanliness."
Will Perl 6 continue to be the programmer's humble, submissive servant? :-)
With thanks and great respect,
-Brian Allemana
A couple points that were brought up that I'd like to address....
First, as to why Macs aren't common web servers, I think the main reasons are cost of the hardware, difficulty in maintaining/upgrading, and lack of expandability. Of course, Apple sort of addressed this with the XServe, but it's still a hell of a lot cheaper to buy, say, an Athlon based PC with Linux than a whole PowerMac.
Second, as to why people are bashing MS for security holes and praising Apple for fixing them, let's keep in mind Microsoft makes their own web server software. Apple is putting in place fixes to programs they did not create, so they need a little more time to get the details and make a fix. Having said that, I agree that Apple could be a bit quicker about it.
-Suffering Bastard (runs web, mail, mp3, and file serving off various OS X boxen)
Depends on how you define computer crime. Mitnick may have downloaded proprietary information, but he didn't use it for any personal gain. Why should he go to jail for life?? A kid proclaims his love by defacing a corporate web site -- is this just grounds for destroying him?
What if I donated money to help get Mitnick (or Sklyarov) out of jail? Does this make me a harborer of terrorism?
This proposal is far too broad. Anyone know of any public protests?
-SB
Just to add my name to the list, my company's server has also been hit. It turns out the servers sends TWO files to the client: a readme.eml, and a readme.exe. I'm gonna setup a test box to see what these files do.
Frustrated in Chicago,
-Suffering Bastard
I agree whole-heartedly, although I have not read the book. From watching the series I got the impression of immense potential unrealized. All interesting metaphors and passionate moments were ruined by bad acting, bad special effects, and weak camera work. The costumes were interesting, though.
-Brian
--
if ($good != $safe) {
eval(++$risk);
&take_action(rand($decision));
What is the line from that Sting tune? "Scientific means to bliss, will supercede the human kiss".
It is truly unfortunate that some parents who scream about games ruining their children miss the real cause of their child's errant behavior. It's easy to blame it on gaming, since providing the attention and social adjustment skills every child needs (including teenagers) takes a lot more energy and thought. When a child of, say, 16 cannot relate to his or her peers, he may indulge himself in gaming, where it's easy to pretend you're someone else and there is some sense of virtual participation.
This can in fact lead to an unhealthy addiction, but gaming itself can surely not be blamed. And how can you heap blame on a misguided 16 year old? What is important above all is to find a way to engage the child in real social interaction so he can see for himself the difference between 'real life' and 'virtual life' as well as find the true richness within the characters of real people. He may also discover his own richness, which is the first step toward becoming truly creative.
I believe gaming is a real counter culture, but I don't see it as the seed of a revolution. A true and healthy revolution can only come from those who are educated in the arts and history of humanity and gaming by no means provides this. Who'd have the energy to lead a revolution when you can sit at Diablo II for hours, mindlessly hacking at zombies and demons? Perhaps it's the gaming manufacturers who are leading the culture, not the gamers themselves.
Being the Unreal Tournament addict that I am, I can understand the attraction to gaming over, say, a walk in a public park. While I don't think this is dangerous to the fabric of society, I do believe it can harm the future social abilities of young people. Perhaps a mass social malaise is imminent -- or perhaps gamers will awake one day and realize the scent of a garden, or the shade of a tree, is far more satisfying than a frag with a rail gun.
-Brian
--
if ($good != $safe) {
eval(++$risk);
&take_action(rand($decision));
Pardon my ignorance, but who's Alexander Tyler? Any relation to president John Tyler?
Love the quote. But...
>>Vote Libertarian, before it's too late.
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have" - Thomas Jeffeson<<
Government too small to supply anything is worthless. My personal view is that Libertarianism is a bit too close to anarchy. I happen to like gun control, the EPA, and the NEA. Or at least I like their intended purposes. Without some amount of central governmental control, I can't see how a society as diverse and populated as ours could survive.
I'll most likely be voting for Nader. The beauty of third parties is they actually address real problems without fear of not pleasing a certain demographic. Their solutions may range from radical to ludicrous (Buchanan), but at least they talk about what the "mainstream" politicos avoid like the plague.
Let's shake up the current trend of complacency... vote third party!
-SB
"Take it easy, but take it..."
-Studs Terkel
So who's gonna buy "ewatchsucks.com"? Maybe the best way to test the company's product is to see how fast they can track their own trash talkers.
-B