Dr Fragen in the operating room

Andy Fragen

  • New Markdown Tool Prefs Page

    OK, I made a browser based page for setting Markdown preferences. It actually wasn’t that difficult. I used the same method that Radio uses internally for setting preferences. The final rendition of this page will likely change significantly prior to release. The preferences page is gotten to by clicking on the Markdown link in the…

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  • Markdown previewing in Radio

    The latest enhancement to the Markdown tool was perhaps the simplest to accomplish. [Patrick Ritchie][1] asked how he could see a preview of his post without having to open a separate window. I’d never really thought about it before. A little digging found that the DWHP pulls the text of the posts from the `radio.macros.weblogPostForm`…

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  • Markdown Tool: Pre-rendering and swapping

    As I post more new entries the older ones will fall off my home page and the pre-render/swapping code in the Markdown tool will gradually take over from rendering on the fly. As [Patrick][1] has so aptly stated it will, and does, cut down on the CPU cycles. I noticed this by having the preference…

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  • Print off a calender for the year

    [**macosxhints**](http://www.macosxhints.com) says: >[**Print off a calender for the year**](http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050205000819433) >To print off a yearly calendar, open the Terminal and type: `cal -y|open -f` >This will display a full-year’s calendar in TextEdit. Print the TextEdit document, and you’re done. This works in this manner: cal -y generates a … This is pretty cool.

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  • Bzz bzz

    Well, I’ve been driven out of my office each of the past 2 afternoons. I was being invaded by bees. It seems the were looking for a new home — in my roof. It’s amazing how those little suckers get inside. Well, Monday after we called Dewey Pest Control, they sent out Aaron and in…

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