Comments for ben tsai http://bentsai.wordpress.com The 't' in this case stands for 'technology' Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:32:09 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Enso lives on by Anjoschu http://bentsai.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/enso-lives-on/#comment-19 Anjoschu Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:32:09 +0000 http://bentsai.wordpress.com/?p=11#comment-19 Thanks for the kind words about the demo! Since September, Enso's heritage lives on in the Mozilla project Ubiquity. http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/ubiquity/ Thanks for the kind words about the demo! Since September, Enso’s heritage lives on in the Mozilla project Ubiquity.
http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/ubiquity/

]]> Comment on Using Mercurial as ad-hoc local version control by Duncan Smart http://bentsai.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/using-mercurial-as-ad-hoc-local-version-control/#comment-12 Duncan Smart Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:06:06 +0000 http://bentsai.wordpress.com/?p=7#comment-12 "Before I found out about Mercurial, I thought about using Subversion for such a purpose. But the pain was setting up a server" You don't need a server for a Subversion repository. You can create the repository anywhere on your file system and access it with the file:// protocol. (Not arguing with your main point though) “Before I found out about Mercurial, I thought about using Subversion for such a purpose. But the pain was setting up a server”

You don’t need a server for a Subversion repository. You can create the repository anywhere on your file system and access it with the file:// protocol.

(Not arguing with your main point though)

]]> Comment on Using Mercurial as ad-hoc local version control by Jeremy http://bentsai.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/using-mercurial-as-ad-hoc-local-version-control/#comment-11 Jeremy Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:53:32 +0000 http://bentsai.wordpress.com/?p=7#comment-11 Thanks, Ben! Thanks, Ben!

]]> Comment on Enso lives on by carlo http://bentsai.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/enso-lives-on/#comment-10 carlo Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:48:48 +0000 http://bentsai.wordpress.com/?p=11#comment-10 Take a look to this web-2.0-thing inspired by Enso, called PodiPodi: www.podipodi.com It's a web gadget that web designers can add to their website and give their users a fast way to interact with the site and web services (google, yahoo, youtube...) It's still a developing project but looks interesting. Take a look to this web-2.0-thing inspired by Enso, called PodiPodi: http://www.podipodi.com

It’s a web gadget that web designers can add to their website and give their users a fast way to interact with the site and web services (google, yahoo, youtube…)

It’s still a developing project but looks interesting.

]]> Comment on Sparklines by bentsai http://bentsai.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/sparklines/#comment-9 bentsai Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:51:52 +0000 http://bentsai.wordpress.com/?p=14#comment-9 Nice, thanks. I made the adjustment. You are the web-wizard. Nice, thanks. I made the adjustment. You are the web-wizard.

]]> Comment on Sparklines by erik http://bentsai.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/sparklines/#comment-8 erik Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:11:04 +0000 http://bentsai.wordpress.com/?p=14#comment-8 Well, it looks like the line-height is 1.75em and the font-size 11px, so the line-height is 19.25px. You could make the height for the image 19px. You will also have to adjust the vertical-align of the image to bottom. I am not too crazy with the images dipping below the base line, but i think it might be better than having uneven line heights. Well, it looks like the line-height is 1.75em and the font-size 11px, so the line-height is 19.25px. You could make the height for the image 19px. You will also have to adjust the vertical-align of the image to bottom. I am not too crazy with the images dipping below the base line, but i think it might be better than having uneven line heights.

]]> Comment on Sparklines by bentsai http://bentsai.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/sparklines/#comment-7 bentsai Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:40:13 +0000 http://bentsai.wordpress.com/?p=14#comment-7 Good suggestion. I'd have to dig into PIL to see if it's possible to do some anti-aliasing. Is there a way to correlate line height with number of pixels (i.e., how do I calculate how tall to make the graphic so it matches the line height?) Good suggestion. I’d have to dig into PIL to see if it’s possible to do some anti-aliasing. Is there a way to correlate line height with number of pixels (i.e., how do I calculate how tall to make the graphic so it matches the line height?)

]]> Comment on Sparklines by erik http://bentsai.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/sparklines/#comment-6 erik Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:29:28 +0000 http://bentsai.wordpress.com/?p=14#comment-6 It might be neat to anti-alias and match the image height to the line heights. It seems like one of the nice things with sparklines is that they are non-abrasive and don't demand more attention than they deserve. It might be neat to anti-alias and match the image height to the line heights. It seems like one of the nice things with sparklines is that they are non-abrasive and don’t demand more attention than they deserve.

]]> Comment on Using Mercurial as ad-hoc local version control by bentsai http://bentsai.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/using-mercurial-as-ad-hoc-local-version-control/#comment-5 bentsai Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:23:13 +0000 http://bentsai.wordpress.com/?p=7#comment-5 Hi Jeremy, I have not tried to tie Hg in with a subversion server. What I've done here is to keep the two things orthogonal. So from the subversion side of things (and thus, the perspective of the rest of my team), I'm still committing things at the same granularity/frequency. What Mercurial buys me is version control for the iterations in between my svn commits (freedom and peace of mind). There is a page on the Mercurial wiki about <a href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WorkingWithSubversion" rel="nofollow">working with Subversion</a>. Hi Jeremy,

I have not tried to tie Hg in with a subversion server. What I’ve done here is to keep the two things orthogonal. So from the subversion side of things (and thus, the perspective of the rest of my team), I’m still committing things at the same granularity/frequency. What Mercurial buys me is version control for the iterations in between my svn commits (freedom and peace of mind).

There is a page on the Mercurial wiki about working with Subversion.

]]> Comment on Using Mercurial as ad-hoc local version control by Jeremy http://bentsai.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/using-mercurial-as-ad-hoc-local-version-control/#comment-4 Jeremy Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:57:27 +0000 http://bentsai.wordpress.com/?p=7#comment-4 Hey Ben, This is pretty cool, and it looks like there are a few things l like about it over Git. Is there a way to tie it to a backend subversion server as well? Hey Ben,

This is pretty cool, and it looks like there are a few things l like about it over Git. Is there a way to tie it to a backend subversion server as well?

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