http://ericanderson.us Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:12:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The game is a slight variation on regular Hearts, with a few cards having extra meaning, the possibility for a trick to go around twice, and "special" cards being "charged" (doubling their value). In Turbo Hearts, points are bad. In Turbo Hearts, the 10♣ doubles your score final score, the J♦ ... http://ericanderson.us/2009/09/04/how-to-play-turbo-hearts/ Short and sweet, I have no intention of maintaining this code. It seems that snow leopard completely removes the need for it and as such, I am releasing it at github. TabNamer @ GitHub http://ericanderson.us/2009/08/29/terminal-app-tabnamer-released-under-gpl/ This has been driving me nuts for a long time and I finally figured out the applescript for this so I figured I should share. The script is: [sourcecode language='text'] set archiveFolderName to "@Archive" set exchangeAccount to "My Exchange Email" tell application "Microsoft Entourage" repeat with msg in (get current messages) move msg to folder archiveFolderName in ... http://ericanderson.us/2009/02/27/archiving-a-message-via-keyboard-shortcut-in-microsoft-entourage/ In short: DON'T! What in the world was Apple thinking when you try to upgrade/register/sync your iPhone/iPod and you get "Error: -19" or "Error: -20"?? What good does this do any one? How am I supposed to fix the problem if I don't know what the problem is? Isn't Apple the ... http://ericanderson.us/2008/08/05/using-error-codes-in-user-messages/ If you don't already write unit tests you should be. (Hey, why aren't you writing unit tests?) Unit testing has so many benefits and the upfront developer cost to write some unit tests can pay huge dividends later when you aren't spending time debugging broken code nor attempting to save ... http://ericanderson.us/2008/05/08/using-eclemma-to-write-better-unit-tests/ I don't normally post links to other sites, but this is a great article about consistent hashing that greatly simplifies the explanation. http://ericanderson.us/2008/03/30/consistent-hashing/ Prison: Dark, cold, solitary, and little time outside. Programmer's Office: Dark, cold, solitary, and little time outside. Sad coincidence? http://ericanderson.us/2008/03/27/programmers-and-prison/ I really like the "Pro" color scheme for Terminal.app but I hate how hard it is to read the bold colors. By complete accident however, I came across this Options Page in Terminal.app: Apparently, you can just click that "Use bright colors for bold text" checkbox and all of a sudden ... http://ericanderson.us/2008/03/19/making-terminalapp-easier-to-read/ This is a SIMBL plugin for Terminal.app on Leopard that lets you name your tabs. Because this is an Alpha, I am not going to write up instructions on where to get SIMBL, how to install it, or how to install the bundle. If you don't already know how, then ... http://ericanderson.us/2008/03/02/terminalapp-tab-namer-v01-alpha/ I'm currently working on a Java Web App with Spring. If you aren't familiar with the Spring Framework, especially with the annotation support, then you've never had the pleasure of developing a web app in Java (but you may have experienced the pain). In another post, I will explain why ... http://ericanderson.us/2008/02/11/using-pretty-urls-with-spring-and-annotations/