Evernote Sharing Behavior and Implications for Family Sharing
Evernote sharing behavior and implications for family sharing
The Glimmer Archive
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2024
Migration from Evernote to Obsidian
An approach to migrating from Evernote to Obsidian
2023
Evernote Naming for Interoperability
Naming considerations for Evernote to make improve Interoperability”
WikiLink Helper for Evernote
Transform a Wikilink app link in Evernote
2022
And back to Evernote
Strong linking, community, and portability with more automation options
Obsidian from Evernote
Strong linking, community, and portability with more automation options
Doodle for the rest of us – the meeting participants
A story that now has a sad ending
2021
Typora - Markdown Editor
A Well Designed Markdown Editor for Writing
Staying with Evernote
Staying with Evernote 10 – it is good enough
Finally Moving On
After eight years of using Octopress, this site is moving to a purer Jekyll blog using Minimal Mistakes Theme. I have previously written about the problems ...
Update to Using Maven to Build Executable Jar Files
This is an update to an earlier post adding the ability to include jar files from other projects
Big Sur’s Finder Copy change broke my Keyboard Maestro macro
In Catalina, Copy in Finder gets the path of a file. In Big Sur, it only gets the filename. One can hold down ⌥+⌘+C (or ⌥ and select Copy from the Finder men...
2020
Open Selection by highlighted URL
In Evernote 10, I have lost the ability to include general URLs as linked items. The links already in a note still work but Evernote 10 does not allow the i...
Making BookMarked PDFs from Google Docs
Updated: 10 June 2020 removed LibreOffice as tool, comments about Word Online
2019
Limping along with Octopress and Catalina macOS
I am still using the Octopress 2 framework for the website. This has been challenging as the dependencies for old obsolete software gets harder and harder t...
Configuring CoolBeans 2019.6
Now CoolBeans has been renamed OpenBeans
Onward to Maven in Apache NetBeans
An update to this article is available
2018
Finding Java and NetBeans
Working with NetBeans 9 with an OpenJDK 10 install on a MacOS Mojave machine.
Success – hard work and-or luck?
In his article Absolute Success is Luck. Relative Success is Hard Work., James Clear provides a pair of stories about how luck (including the circumstances o...
Finding Reminders in Evernote
Here is a hint that I was not able to find quickly in Google nor in the EverNote help.
2017
NetBeans Template Configurer
Many years ago, I wrote a post about how to use the NetBeans template system for my students. It quickly covered the basics and demonstrated how to set thin...
2015
Java Sound Update 2
This is an update to a prior article.
Creating a Line Segment Graphic
The following code
2014
Software Programming Skills Popularity
There are lots of ways to evaluate popularity, and in the end, all are probably very transitory. In his Quartz article, Max Nisen examined American job data ...
Java Sound Update
For years, I have been using (and advising the use of sun.audio) for playing sounds in the Java VM using Alvin Alexander’s article for inspiration. The down...
Waiting on Migration Tools for Octopress 3
Watching the Twitter posts, it looks like a lot of work has gone into building Octopress 3.0 around a somewhat different philosophy than Octopress 2.0 making...
2013
Updating Java/NetBeans on OS X
Oracle Java on OS X
Using MySQL with Bitnami on Vagrant VM
The Bitnami install doccumented earlier is a bit broken relative to MySQL. Evidently, when Bitnami installs in the VM situation and moves itself to the /opt/...
Make a new rails 3.2 app in the VM Environment
After installing the VM on the computer, one can make a new Rails App by the following process:
Using Bitnami’s Rubystack on VirtualBox Linux with Vagrant
In my Software Engineering Projects class, we are going to do a RAILS-based project. Based on feedback from last year’s class, I am furnishing students with...
Adding to a non-privileged users path in Windows 7
Does it have to be this hard?
Tumbling out!
In a long overdue action, I have moved the glimmer blog out of Tumblr. I had been wanting to use (Multi-)Markdown more in blogging to continue my focusing o...
Safe Boot is back (in OS X10.8.3) with FileVault
Safe booting for FileVault users is now possible again in OS X 10.8.3. As always, you hold down the (left) shift key right after the chime when booting. Yo...
Exploring stately for Ruby
As someone who has built a hardware-based Morse Code sending system, I am very interested in state machines and their implementation.
2012
Trading Memory for Functionality (Enough Performance)
I was working on a the last note and wanted to check things out under a fresh install. I decided to make a new Mac User to accomplish this. I used GitHub for...
GitHub with Assembla
GitHub has now made a nice simple GUI tool for both OS X and Windows. They have made them freely available for download. They seem to have made careful choic...
CoffeeScript with Select2 library
I had two demons: a new library and a language I was not really familiar with. A formula for puzzles. I did not find quickly the right example to do the jQue...
The simple stuff can get you…
I was trying out the EPUB export of VoodooPad and figured out I had to make a cover page in the tool as well as a collection. I then filled out the metadata ...
Ten Things You Didn’t Know Rails Could Do - James Edward Gray II - RailsConf 2012
Ten Things You Didnt Know Rails Could Do - James Edward Gray II - RailsConf 2012
A Typography Prezi
A Typography Prezi
Adjusting the Mac OS X path
The path is an environmental variable that tells the command line (shell) processor where to look for programs (commands) to run when they are entered on the...
2011
Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech’s Hottest Startup - Forbes
Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Techs Hottest Startup - Forbes
iCal does not delete old events cleanly IMO
I turned on (for a few minutes) deletions of iCal events. Some of my calendars are hosted in Exchange and some on Google. Some of these events are group meet...
How Google’s Self-Driving Car Works - IEEE Spectrum
How Googles Self-Driving Car Works - IEEE Spectrum
Complex code (not recommended!)
From a Twitter post on 9/28/11 12:04 PM
There is security and then there is security…
Back in an earlier post, I lamented about some of the errors made by DropBox that (greatly) reduced the security on data and how I was looking at SpiderOak.
Gmail: It’s cooler in the cloud - Official Gmail Blog
Gmail: It’s cooler in the cloud - Official Gmail Blog
Standards: IEEE Standards Education e-Magazine (3.2 Why Standards Matter)
Standards: IEEE Standards Education e-Magazine (3.2 Why Standards Matter)
Redcar
Redcar
Schubert-it PDF Browser Plugin
This plug-in makes EMBEDed PDF files in Safari 5+ and Firefox work!
Track Padding…
I have switched to Lion along with much of the rest of the world. Trying out the track pad as well. One of the things I have not heard mentioned is the two-f...
The Web & Business Tools Startups Use Most [INFOGRAPHIC]
The Web & Business Tools Startups Use Most [INFOGRAPHIC]
Don’t punish everyone
Don’t punish everyone
Tracking on the web…
I ran across a write up on Ghostery in the most recent edition of MacWorld (not online yet). According to its website,
MultiMarkdown and Scrivener for Efficient Blogging
MultiMarkdown and Scrivener for Efficient Blogging
Dropbox Accidentally Unlocked All Accounts for 4 Hours
Dropbox Accidentally Unlocked All Accounts for 4 Hours
My rule is, people don’t get promoted for what they know; they get promoted for the class of problem they can solve.
My rule is, people don’t get promoted for what they know; they get promoted for the class of problem they can solve.
Normal OS X users can’t, by default, use sudo
As the MacDefender phishing installing malware becomes prevalent, folks are repeating security advice such as the following from MacFixit (of the CNet organi...
Khan Academy looks to bridge the education gap with online learning
Khan Academy looks to bridge the education gap with online learning
Number of confirmed tornadoes in Alabama last week climbs to 23 from al.com
Number of confirmed tornadoes in Alabama last week climbs to 23 from al.com
Alabama tornadoes: Close-up satellite imagery shows before-and-after devastation in Tuscaloosa and Pleasant Grove (interactive) from al.com
Alabama tornadoes: Close-up satellite imagery shows before-and-after devastation in Tuscaloosa and Pleasant Grove (interactive) from al.com
IEEE Solutionists
IEEE Solutionists
Career Focus: Software Engineering
Career Focus: Software Engineering
Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer. ~Author Unknown
Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer. ~Author Unknown
Video Project Calculator
Video Project Calculator ☹️ dead url
My (Fletcher Penney’s) Latest Workflow
My (Fletcher Penneys) Latest Workflow
… it involved refactoring the HTML & CSS for better efficiency. We also created a style guide to document the new front-end architecture. We’re sharing the methods we’ve used and how it’s helped us to work more efficiently …
… it involved refactoring the HTML & CSS for better efficiency. We also created a style guide to document the new front-end architecture. We’re sharin...
2010
Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X
Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X
Choosing Which Calendars to Sync : Mail, Calendar, & Contacts - Google Mobile Help
Choosing Which Calendars to Sync : Mail, Calendar, & Contacts - Google Mobile Help
CalDAV Calendar Sync : CalDAV - Google Mobile Help
CalDAV Calendar Sync : CalDAV - Google Mobile Help
Doodle Best Practices
Doodle is a neat tool for scheduling efforts of people across systems. I use it a lot both for UAB and IEEE activities. Once one builds an account it becomes...
The Engineering Notebook
The Engineering Notebook
Printing Multiple Files in NetBeans
I wanted to produce a collection of PDF files associated with the source of an applications developed in NetBeans (6.9). The File | Print option in Project v...
Googling…
If you are site owner (or can look like one), you can use Google’s tools to remove items from Google rather easily. Adding things into Google is substantiall...
Apple deprecating Java in 10.7
In Apple Trying to Ditch Java from Mac OS X, But Why? by Cory Bohon on Mac|Life the author reviews Apple’s recent announcement and his take on the situation....
Apple iTunes Shopping Experience Snafu
Am I the only one is bothered by having Apple iTunes drop your purchase request when Apple decides to change their terms and forces you to agree to the new t...
/\ndy: Warning! Deadlines are closer than they appear
/\ndy: Warning! Deadlines are closer than they appear
Dropbox and symlinks
Symlinks don’t work well with Dropbox. They cause unexpected unrolling of the symlink on the clients that don’t originate the symlink.
Adding multiple from addresses to iPhone
For me, it it is adding an @IEEE.org as an alternate from: address in the iPhone mail client associated with a Google gmail account.
Git and DropBox Together
There are several posts about using DropBox for the remote repository for Git. I wanted my local Git repository on DropBox to share between machines with a r...
Don’t say you don’t have enough time…
Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Leon...
svn merging – additional comments
This is a small expansion on an earlier post about svn merging.
Powerpoint Sound Record Bug
Sometimes you think you are going crazy only to find out it is a software bug (or feature!).
MultiMarkdown
I have been using MultiMarkdown for a while now. I use it for creating simple text files that I want to read in text mode but also want to perhaps “dress up”...
WordPress using Bitnami’s OS X Stack - fixing permalinks
Looking at Wordpress for a variety of reasons since IEEE’s EWH effort has decided to go with it.
email is the cockroach of communication mediums: you just can’t kill it.
email is the cockroach of communication mediums: you just can’t kill it.
How to make Subversion ignore files: svn propset svn:ignore
How to make Subversion ignore files: svn propset svn:ignore
ongoing by Tim Bray · Giving Up On Patents
ongoing by Tim Bray · Giving Up On Patents
Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures Using Over 1,000 Shell Companies To Hide Patent Shakedown from Techdirt
Nathan Myhrvolds Intellectual Ventures Using Over 1,000 Shell Companies To Hide Patent Shakedown from Techdirt
The Patent Litigation Dilemma: Free Riders - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
The Patent Litigation Dilemma: Free Riders - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 9. It can’t multitask — RoughlyDrafted Magazine
Ten Myths of Apple’s iPad: 9. It can’t multitask — RoughlyDrafted Magazine
Email Sanity: How to Clear Your Inbox When You’re Drowning by Zen Habits
Email Sanity: How to Clear Your Inbox When You’re Drowning by Zen Habits
Caltech proposes curriculum change: more breadth in science, better writing skills - San Jose Mercury News
Caltech proposes curriculum change: more breadth in science, better writing skills - San Jose Mercury News
Old code on new platforms
OS X made the jump to a 64bit platform with 10.6 Snow Leopard. Of course, not everything is written for 64 bit mode at present. The Universal file format a...
2009
Post those weird phone numbers (may be me)
My wife asked me about a strange number that had shown up on her cell phone. She went to the Google and found out that it had been reported by others. Some a...
Giving back…
Not meaning to turn this into a significant advocacy post but similar to the public supporting resources like Public Radio (mine is WBHM) and Public TV (mine...
Merging with svn 1.6
Lots of work has been done by the Subversion team (probably in response to Git). One can now do a merge from a project branch back into the main trunk rathe...
Configuring NetBeans to produce custom documentation header
Instructors and projects usually have documentation standards. The standards I supply my students are an abbreviated version of what a project team might us...
Snow Leopard’s Preview Updates upon regaining focus
Preview.app (the PDF and graphic viewer) will update itself to changes in the underlying file when it gains focus. That makes it more valuable for applicatio...
Snow Leopard Make Symbolic Links
The old approach is no longer but valid but there is a new release which uses the service model. I always use symbolic links over aliases as it works at the ...
The four-finger swipe
Last post for today. On suitably new portable Mac’s, one can do a 4-finger swipe which seems to be the equivalent of the Windows ALT+TAB (and the Mac CMD+TAB...
Snow Leopard - smooth install
I have now installed Snow Leopard on 3 machines (1 more to go plus a server).
Snow Leopard - Mail.app
I have been using Apple’s Mail.app as my client to talk to the University’s Exchange 2007 server. I really don’t like the monster database file that Microsof...
Mail configuration
Lots of posts today. In recording my Snow Leopard experiences, it occurred to me that a decision I made recently regarding handling of sent mail had not been...
SheevaPlug Dev Kit - Linux Computer as Power Module
SheevaPlug Dev Kit - Linux Computer as Power Module
Determining Version of JVM used to build class file
The details are given in Thiam Teck’s Blog.
Herding Cats: Quote of the Day: Well Done is Better Than Well Said
Herding Cats: Quote of the Day: Well Done is Better Than Well Said
Free Installation Guides for Apple Mac mini
Free Installation Guides for Apple Mac mini
Contrasting Apple and Microsoft’s Product Strategy: A Tale of Two Spills
Contrasting Apple and Microsoft’s Product Strategy: A Tale of Two Spills
ASP Code For YYMMDD timestamp
OK, so maybe no one will ever need it but I did (or so I thought) so after not finding code available, I wrote it.
Coding Horror: Unix is Dead, Long Live Unix
Coding Horror: Unix is Dead, Long Live Unix
CSV to TSV File Conversion
I having been keeping three office suites (MS Office 2008, OpenOffice.Org, and iWork) on the MacBook Air I use. After looking at the interoperability glitch...
Does Cloud Computing Mean More Risks to Privacy? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Does Cloud Computing Mean More Risks to Privacy? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Google Helping With Victorian Bushfires Using Google Map
Google Helping With Victorian Bushfires Using Google Map
Mobile Web 2009 = Desktop Web 1998
Mobile Web 2009 = Desktop Web 1998
Power Mind Mapping Course
In an earlier post, I cited a particular lecture of a course series. I am now 8 lectures into the series on power mind mapping by NovaMind. They, of course,...
XMind - Social Brainstorming and Mind Mapping
XMind - Social Brainstorming and Mind Mapping
Mail clients and batteries
Just a preliminary thought based on a few observations on my Mac…
Problem solving
Gideon King of NovaMind is producing a free series of video courses on using MindMaps. Lesson 2: Power Mind Mapping lesson 2 - using Mind Mapping techniques...
From another Tumbler – Academic Earth
From another Tumbler – Academic Earth
Consideration as things move to the “Cloud”
This morning’s mail brought a news e-mail with an article by Mike Fratto Bandwidth Management Coming To You - Analytics - InformationWeek. This struck a cho...
Selenium web application testing system
Selenium web application testing system
Let’s try comments here…
Reading the FAQ from Tumblr suggests that one can use DisQus and some code to enable commenting on a Tumblr. I have completed the steps and am doing this on ...
Flight Computers Helped Save Ditched Airbus (The Risk Factor)
Flight Computers Helped Save Ditched Airbus (The Risk Factor)
The (slightly) big e-mail experiment
Well I did it. I have moved my IEEE mail over to GMail from my university mail. I still can use the Apple Mail integrated client and the iPhone to monitor ...
Online Mind Mapping - MindMeister
Online Mind Mapping - MindMeister
2008
Huddle Workspaces & LinkedIn Connection
Huddle Workspaces & LinkedIn Connection
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds (☹️ dead URL now)
Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn
Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn
Check security - when code looks like it can not possibly be wrong, you may be bumping up against a security rule.
Check security - when code looks like it can not possibly be wrong, you may be bumping up against a security rule.
Refactor Your Wetware
I am reading an interesting book - Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt that came out in September 2008. The book works throug...
What is Dimdim?
What is Dimdim?
How I use TextMate
How I use TextMate
The only reason to answer the phone…
The only reason to answer the phone when a customer calls is to make the customer happy. If you’re not doing this or you are unable to do this, do not ...
Reducing email part 2
In response to my last post (which I e-mailed ((blush)) to him), RonJ shared a link to a blog of someone working to rid himself of e-mail. I found this post ...
New media, new generation
Interesting presentation on both views on communication as well as an interesting slide technique. While you are there, check out a few of her other presenta...
Coding Horror: Is Email = Efail?
Coding Horror: Is Email = Efail?
Onto the iPhone
Onto the iPhone
New sign in my office
New sign in my office: “How do you want your answer? (Choose two) Immediate. Accurate. Brief.
Timebridge
Another neat web service: Timebridge. This service helps one schedule meetings with colleagues. You pick out several choices for the meeting, the system q...
The user manual is a list of software design mistakes.
The user manual is a list of software design mistakes.
Facilitate a process by which errors are found by one’s colleagues not by one’s users.
Facilitate a process by which errors are found by one’s colleagues not by one’s users.
Evernote
One more service that I have started using for a bit is Evernote. Evernote is a tool to archive items and works as a web application inside many browsers in...
TripIt - Organize your travel
TripIt - Organize your travel
Mail Clients for the Mac
Ouch. Sure want to use the Apple trio (Mail, iCal, Address Book) rather than Entourage so that I can take advantage of the ease of incremental backup and su...
First Law of Software Development
First Law of Software Development
Mail clients
Boy, the trade-offs in Mac Mail clients can drive you crazy. The Mail.app has appealing features like templates, AOL presence detection, use of files to sto...
2007
Re-setting Spotlight
I found an Apple reference that suggested that dragging the Hard Disk and the Filevault folder into (and later out of) the “exclude” from Spotlight window (i...
Mail.app notes in Exchange 2003 (at least)
When I started trying to use the new Notes feature in Mail.app, I was having trouble with them not being stored on the Exchange server. I found that I neede...
Feed the google: ie7 png jpg MIME confusion
So DavidB and I are working on a new bug in OUMgt -> folks can’t upload .jpg and .png files into our RAILS app. This used to work.
Testing Legacy Rails Apps » SlideShare
Testing Legacy Rails Apps » SlideShare
Dilbert’s Glimmer of Hope
Updated: 20210909
all about agile: Agile Principle #7: “done” means “DONE!”
all about agile: Agile Principle #7: “done” means “DONE!”
Congratulations on bringing light into the Dark-room!
Congratulations on bringing light into the Dark-room!