Most people are blown away when I show how conveniently and efficiently you can get things done using the keyboard in OS X. Power users have always know the keyboard rulez over the mouse, but coming from Windows or Linux you may have felt it’s just too painful to learn.
Apple has stricter rules about how application interfaces should work, so keyboard shortcuts tend to be a lot more consistent across applications, which makes them a lot more feasible and useful to learn. So, DO IT, you won’t regret it
There are many lists of keyboard shortcuts around on the web, but they contain both useful and useless ones, and since I know you are eager to get started, so I’ll give you only the essential ones and how they are used.
Apple recently announced that there are more than 15,000 apps (applications) in the app store. My iTunes shows I have downloaded and tried 189 of them, but even going through those, there are only a handful that I would actually buy if I had tried them out first.
Based on that, here are 22 apps that I actually recommend to other iPhone users, as well as the reasons why I recommend them.
As you know, several of the core Django developers went to the Washington Post to work, and they just announced several open source components that look promising, quoting them:
django-projectmgr it is a source code repository manager and issue tracking application. It allows threaded discussion of bugs and features, separation of bugs, features and tasks and easy creation of source code repositories for either public or private consumption. (Looks like an alternative to Trac, but in Django.)
django-massmedia, a multi-media management application. It can create galleries with multiple media types within, allows mass uploads with an archive file, and has a plugin for fckeditor for embedding the objects from a rich text editor.
django-clickpass, an interface to the clickpass.com OpenID service that allows users to create an account with a Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Hotmail or AIM account.
The source code is released under the permissive Apache License, version 2.0.
This video is from our ExoSocial event at Nanshan Ski Village just outside Beijing today. It shows what the few people that went to the top were up to (most people stayed on the green slopes). Fun to see programmers, PMs, and sysadms basking in the snow.
(APOLOGIES: I’ve decided against making the video public, so the video below will not work unless I share the video with you; just tell me your youtube account and I’ll share it with you.)
This was my first edit using the new iMovie. It’s a very rough cut
If you’re in Beijing, know Python, have played around with Django, and want to roll up your sleeves and contribute some code to open source, then feel free to join as at the Exoweb office Saturday Dec 1st from 11:30 until 24:00 for the Django sprint.
If you want to come, please post a comment to this blog and put your name on the Django sprint wiki page under the Beijing section, so that we can gauge how many are coming and keep informed if there are any updates.
(See also Exoweb planet for more information on Exoweb and our office.)
I’ve been having so much fun listening to songs and watching music videos by Jonathan Coluton, an ex-software developer gone Internet music artist, or “Internet star”. He originally made headlines with his “Thing a Week” project in which he would make and publish a song every week. Merlin Mann has a good interview with Jonathan where he discusses what the process was like.
