Adam Wishneusky

Make holding down a key do what you want (MacOS Lion)

You can turn off that stupid feature in MacOS Lion where holding down a key doesn’t make it repeat. At the command-line, run

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

Now you don’t get the stupid iOS-like character selection:

you get what you expect:

[nerds] javascript aids in shopping

I was on this page picking out awesome new cards by the oatmeal. It’s looking for my twelve choice. The cut-off screenshot here goes on and on…

I started out by opening tabs for all the cards I liked, then whittled them down to 12 (the most I can get in a pack), then scrolled through and for each card number, picked one. At the end, crap! I had a tab left by no selection left. Since it’s a pain to scan back through the huge list of thumbnails and radio buttons, I used jQuery :)

Here’s an array of all the radio buttons that I’d checked:

var selections = $('input:checked');

Now spit out the IDs (which include the names):

selections.each(function(index,el){ console.log(el.id); });

I verified in the list there that I hadn’t duplicated any and had instead accidentally picked 13. I love jQuery and Google Chrome’s inspector and javascript console :)

[nerds] Comments for timesheet intervals in FogBugz

cross-posted over on the Fog Creek blog

As you may know, I work in tech support at Fog Creek Software. I get to play around pretending to be a programmer sometimes, mostly to help customers with Plugin and XML API codez. I recently collaborated with an intrepid FogBugz user to create this plugin which allows you to put a comment on each time interval. It adds a [comment] link in the timesheet editor:

When you click it, you can enter a comment in a new dialog:

which then shows up in in the editor:

The plugin uses some javascript hackery to modify the timesheet editor since there is no plugin interface to implement to change its functionality. As such, it works with FogBugz 8.7 and is not tested and approved for FogBugz On Demand. You can download the plugin to run on your own FogBugz server, and get the source code from my post here on the FogBugz Knowledge Exchange.

Feel free to comment here, or email me at work if you need help using (or developing!) this plugin.

Chrome userscript to put oft-used links to the left in Google

The new Google navigation bar is stupid. The links I use the most, Gmail and Calendar are spread around and I waste time hunting them down:

I just hacked together a userscript you can add to Chrome to move the links where they belong. It’s posted here. Save the code as a text file something.user.js and then drag it onto Google Chrome, click yes or whatever. Then go to Google and behold: