Outshine http://www.outshine.com/ en Copyright 2012 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:48:04 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss New plugin for JW Player I created a small simple plugin for the JW Player.  However, that plugin hasn't seen the light of day in their add-ons repository.  So I thought I'd add it here.  More description & links in the following paragraphs.

]]> http://www.outshine.com/blog/2012/03/new-plugin-for-jw-player.php http://www.outshine.com/blog/2012/03/new-plugin-for-jw-player.php Blog javascript jw player tech Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:48:04 -0800 New Greasemonkey Script: Show Attachments, JIRA! I've been having a great deal of fun at OnLive, my new employer.  OnLive is a video game store/system where games are run on a server farm and the video/audio feed is streamed to the player's local machine.  It's cool because it means that Mac users can play Windows games, for instance.

In any case, the company is also cool because it is friendly to Open Source developers such as myself.  I was having trouble with the bug tracking system that OnLive uses (JIRA), and they let me code up a fix and release it into the wild.

The problem I experienced went like this.  I received a ticket which mentioned that files were attached.  I looked all over the ticket for the usual icons that display for each file, but the attachments section was empty.  So I rejected the ticket with the comment, "No attachments, try again."  And then the person responsible came to my desk and showed me how sometimes the icons remain hidden behind the eye icon (which is used to manage the full list of attachments).  We chatted for a few minutes about why that might happen, but to be honest, our intellectual curiosity over that was pretty much relegated to idle chatter.  We moved on.

Later I realized that with Greasemonkey I could probably just have a script automatically check the eye icon behind the scenes, and insert the list of attachments if none were displayed on the main page where they are typically expected.  So I whipped it up, we all started using it, and then my boss cleared me to release it.

So, if you have the Firefox browser with the Greasemonkey plugin running, you can head over to userscripts.org and install my little Greasemonkey script, Show Attachments, JIRA!

 

]]> http://www.outshine.com/blog/2011/11/show-attachments-jira.php http://www.outshine.com/blog/2011/11/show-attachments-jira.php Blog greasemonkey tech Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:43:37 -0800 Returning to fitness, week 2 I didn't lose as much weight this week.  Kinda bummed.  I think I have to do what all my friends have been telling me to do: stop drinking sodas.  So as of tonight, I'm no longer drinking sodas, but otherwise my diet is unchanged.  I'm regularly doing 5 miles of walking/running now.  My weight is 197.2.  I'm a wee bit better than last week, but I actually feel fatter.  Probably because I haven't been doing as many sit-ups.  Photo next.

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So I figured I would simply walk through the hallways until something was familiar.  This was a terrible decision.  I found myself standing frozen at the door to another business, locked in disbelief.

]]> http://www.outshine.com/blog/2011/01/1101-winchester-boulevard.php http://www.outshine.com/blog/2011/01/1101-winchester-boulevard.php Blog divorce Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:14:50 -0800 Updated my Greasemonkey script for rpg.net Hey all.  Just a quick note to say that my Greasemonkey script for rpg.net, which will hide all the D&D 4th edition topics in the forum, has been updated to version 1.1.0.

]]> http://www.outshine.com/blog/2010/09/updated-my-greasemonkey-script.php http://www.outshine.com/blog/2010/09/updated-my-greasemonkey-script.php Blog greasemonkey javascript tech Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:30:54 -0800 Lyrics to Into the Air, by 2Spaces So I love the song "Into the Air" which is by 2Spaces, featuring Viktor Ginner, and produced by ROMi.  I wanted the lyrics, which for any typical song are generally scattered across so many Web sites that a person can find them with ease.  But not this time.  No search engine had the lyrics, even when I started searching for actual phrases from the song.  So, fine.  I wrote them down myself, and now we can get these lyrics into the search engines for the world to find.  Here we go.

]]> http://www.outshine.com/blog/2010/04/lyrics-to-into-the-air-by-2spaces.php http://www.outshine.com/blog/2010/04/lyrics-to-into-the-air-by-2spaces.php Blog lyrics nontech techno trance Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:22:59 -0800 IE6 (Internet Explorer 6) eats form data While working on some internal Web forms for Cadence, I came across a bonafide browser bug that I had never seen before.  Some people were filling out a form, but the form sometimes wouldn't work -- data was lost, and we couldn't figure out why.  Eventually I had eliminated bugs in my PHP code and as a last resort, I put a sniffer on the wire to watch the traffic.  What I found was amazing to me.  Internet Explorer 6 will fail to encode data properly (wiping out the first field) under very particular circumstances.  What's interesting is that, searching across the Internet, I found lots of people having the bug but not a lot of solutions.  That's odd, right?  I mean, IE 6 is a really old browser.  All the problems with it should have workarounds now, just as the box model issues in IE 6 do.  But this doesn't.  So I'll go over what I found, and how I fixed it.

]]> http://www.outshine.com/blog/2010/02/ie6-internet-explorer-6-eats-f.php http://www.outshine.com/blog/2010/02/ie6-internet-explorer-6-eats-f.php Blog tech Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:34:27 -0800 Greasemonkey script for rpg.net Do you visit rpg.net?  It's a site for people who enjoy role-playing games.  If you visit that site, and are a bit overwhelmed by the huge number of forum topics about 4th edition D&D, I have got a prize for you.  I have created a script for Firefox's Greasemonkey plugin.  It's free.  It's called Drop 4e 4 rpg, available on userscripts.org.  It will hide any topic that is tagged as 4th edition.  Have fun.

-Tony

]]> http://www.outshine.com/blog/2009/10/greasemonkey-script-for-rpgnet.php http://www.outshine.com/blog/2009/10/greasemonkey-script-for-rpgnet.php Blog greasemonkey tech Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:29:15 -0800 outshine.com goes up on the auction block! My domain outshine.com is going to be auctioned by either the Great Domains auction house, or by Moniker domain auctions.  Not sure which yet.  Anybody have suggestions?

The domain name should appeal to anyone doing online ratings systems, or for any "best of the best" product.  Outshine is a simple, short dictionary word, so I'm hoping people like it!  I've had the domain since 1998, and it's well-ranked on Google.  If you know someone who is interested, put them in touch with me.

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If you don't know why this is so awful and hilarious, that's OK.  Don't figure it out.

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