DVORAK
Posted by tom July 8th, 2007
It’s really strange that in the year 2007 people are still typing on a keyboard, which design is from 1874 – 133 years old. Even stranger is that this layout was purposely designed to avoid mechanical problems the device was having. Look at Wikipedia for the article on Sholes & Glidden typewriters
Since 1930 there is however an alternative, which August Dvorak designed: The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
Most people will agree that if you put a stone under for example a waterfall and get back to it after 30 years, it will have corroded, due to the water. But the same people fail to realise that the same thing happens with our fingers when you type for 30 years. Surely this must cause some strain and pains!
Dvorak scientifically deduced that using a DVORAK keyboard reduced the finger movement drastically.
So how do I get to writing such an article? I use DVORAK myself, for over six years now and today I found this nice website: The DV Zine.
I’ve mirrored their great The Dvorak Zine
SFTP Drive for Mac OSX
Posted by tom February 13th, 2007
Today I’ve found this totally new gem: SSHFS for Darwin. It’s brilliant! It allows you to connect to a SFTP host and use it as if it was a local volume. It’s for 10.4 (Tiger) only. So this together with TextMate make a perfect couple for me.
XPath: How to get a node with a certain highest or lowest value?
Posted by tom January 28th, 2007
Answer, simple: /bookstore/book[price=max(/bookstore/book/price/text())]
See the example XML document at W3 Schools