Bruce van der Kooij » the little things

I can’t imagine life without: “The Awesome Bar”

Bruce van der Kooij — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:49:39 +0000

Get to your favorite sites quickly – even if you don’t remember the URLs. Type your term into the location bar (aka the Awesome Bar) and the autocomplete function will include possible matches from your browsing history, bookmarked sites and open tabs.

The Awesome Bar learns as you use it—over time, it adapts to your preferences and offers better-fitting matches.

Equal sized imagery + grid layout = magic

Bruce van der Kooij — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:42:14 +0000

For some reason when laying out almost any kind of imaginary of equal sizes in a grid fashion: magic happens. It’s weird, but it’s true.

I’ll give some examples in future blog posts.

The “Grrr bark woof” sign

Bruce van der Kooij — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:11:07 +0000

I was watching Seth Godin’s 2006 This Is Broken talk at the Gel conference and he showed this funny sign they use in the District of North Vancouver, Canada to remind dog owners to pick up after their dog:

The famous grrr, bark, woof sign

Here’s another picture of the sign and for some more information on the sign check out the District of North Vancouver’s website.

It’s great to see local governments having a sense of humor :-)

Resources

A short blogpost about the sign on a blog dedicated to North Vancouver politics.

Due dates in Remember the Milk

Bruce van der Kooij — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:51:22 +0000

I’ve decided I want to get more effective and start settings goals and then follow through on realizing them. No more messing about! One of the steps includes getting more organized and start managing my tasks.

To make it more comfortable to create tasks I’ve started using the GNOME Do plugin for Remember the Milk (an online to do list and task management).

A really cool feature from Remember the Milk is the format in which you can enter the due dates, you can do anything from exact dates to using statements like “End of the month” or “60 days from now”. They’ve documented all the possibilities in their documentation.

The little things

Bruce van der Kooij — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:03:24 +0000

It’s pretty nifty how in summary view WordPress will (sometimes?) take the first image encountered and use it as a thumbnail and even automatically crops it.

TODO:

I have a post where I had added an image and later removed it, WordPress still uses this image as a thumbnail (click on one of the associated tags to view the result). Looks like a bug to me, so here’s a reminder to myself to report a bug.

Modes and remembering state

Bruce van der Kooij — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:12:36 +0000

It’s quite cool how WordPress remembers what mode (Visual versus HTML) you were previously in and the size of the editor when writing a blog post .

TODO:

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Textarea cursor position

Bruce van der Kooij — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:57:14 +0000

While making a quick post and alt-tabbing between the title and the content area I was pleasantly surprised to see the textarea storing the position of the text cursor. I never noticed this before but probably did so now because of the specific situation.