Three Little Hacks
Kirk Is
I'll post three very small hacks I recently did.
Hack 1
A while ago I was writing tasks on post-its and lining my monitor with
them, then spindle-ing them upon completition which was very satisfying.
I realized I should bring a pack of post-its to meetings now, and put
action items on them, rather than relying on other means. I also realized
that I can use a special marker on the spindle to mark the start of the
week, and then go through the past task stickies to do my weekly report.
Hack 2
Updating an HTML based content management system, I had big rows of
checkboxes for individual files, and by each directory name was a "select
all"/"unselect all" button pair linked to javascript.
It looked really bad, but I didn't have time to do graphical buttons, so I
used ASCII art: [X] to indicate check all, [_] to indicate uncheck all.
Ended up looking reasonably slick. I put the buttons to the left of the
directory name, other wise the buttons wouldn't line up and the page would
look messy.
Hack 3 (Coming to you live!)
Started an FTP session from one unix machine to another, huge files that
are taking a long time. It's an older ftp client so it didn't have any
kind of update bar (unlike say ncftp) and I wanted to know how it was
going. I fired up WS-FTP on my desktop, connected to the target
machine, cd'd to the same directory, and now every time I refresh I see
the current bytecount.
*shrug* none of them too great, but they got the jobs done...
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