http://mblsha.psi-im.org Weblog about Psi, the universe, and everything Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:26:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Everyone has his own coding style and dislikes everyone else's. When you have to work with code written by other people, there's a ton of it, and their coding style differs from yours in many ways, you have to do something. As for Psi project, we in fact have some set ... http://mblsha.psi-im.org/2006/11/29/formatting-your-c-code-the-easy-way/ **UPDATE**: I've put some stuff from my bundle to the official [TextMate Bundle Repository](http://macromates.com/wiki/Main/SubversionCheckout). Now you could skip all this stuff and just use the [GetBundle Bundle](http://validcode.net/stuff/textmate-getbundle-bundle). Long time, no posts, and truth to be said, I've been secretly working on Qt Bundle for [TextMate][] all along, and now you can ... http://mblsha.psi-im.org/2006/06/25/qt-bundle-for-textmate-prerelease/ Phew! I just finished converting all my posts from HTML to [Markdown][] format to get a grasp of how the things should be done and it was really inspiring. What is [Markdown][]? It's yet another markup language for the web which has very nice [syntax][]. With its help now I ... http://mblsha.psi-im.org/2006/04/08/time-for-markdown/ Just some funny chats that happened on april fools day in devel@conference.jabber.ru. It's in Russian, so if you can't read it — just move along. ### Ночь шокирующих признаний: ermine: так всё! * ermine решил сегодня наконец честно признаться geek: ermine: O_o geek: ermine: я знал, я знал! ... http://mblsha.psi-im.org/2006/04/01/april-fools/ If you're chatting in groupchats quite frequently, nick completion is an invaluable feature. The most useful shortcut is Tab-Tab; when used on beginning of new line or after a step it inserts the nickname of the person who last addressed you directly. You can then continue to press Tab and ... http://mblsha.psi-im.org/2006/03/30/nick-completion/ If you ever actively participated in heated forum debates, probably sometimes you ended replying to many points in original post, quoting bits of text. And then you sensed despair, because it was so hard to distinguish your text from original author — it all looked the same!. Enter the world of ... http://mblsha.psi-im.org/2006/03/18/productive-forum-posting/ It was a good week: [public Psi 0.11-beta1 release][] happened recently, I was able to improve some [design bits][about] of my blog, also eliminated the long-standing insect that was hurting my eyes and stopping from using the development branch in day-to-day life. Now, the insect's dead, and I'm happily running ... http://mblsha.psi-im.org/2006/03/03/death-to-the-icons/ Today was a great day. Finally I was able to get my hands on wonderful [iCurve][] laptop stand. It looks great. It feels great. It is great. [iCurve]: http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/icurve/ And the greatest feature of all: on my small desktop I can put my mouse under the [PowerBook][], and [iCurve][] would ... http://mblsha.psi-im.org/2006/02/16/icurve-goodness/ During last two weeks I've been secretly working on porting chat log [widget][] to new code base. And alongside with improved code structure I've also been able to improve its usability. [widget]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget#Graphical_component_in_computing  So what's so new and exciting? Well, several things, and I'm going to list all ... http://mblsha.psi-im.org/2006/02/12/improving-chat-log/ Sometimes in C++ you may feel the need to write a piece of code that uses private functionality of third-party classes. This could be very noticeable with [Qt][], where you have very little control on included classes, and asking nice Trolls to include functionality you need could take some time, ... http://mblsha.psi-im.org/2006/02/11/the-king-of-dirty-hacks/