Captain’s Log

If you’re working on a software project of any magnitude, you’ll have a bunch of source files and will often need to jump between them. Most of the IDE’s I’ve used have convenient keyboard shortcuts to let you open a file by name without browsing around with a mouse:

IntelliJ: “Goto File” - Ctrl Shift N
Netbeans: “Go to File” - Ctrl Shift O
Eclipse: “Open Resource” - Ctrl Shift R

It’s a pretty basic command which is used many times a day. Lately I’ve been using Visual Studio, and I’ve yet to find an equivalent. There’s this tip which doesn’t work for me, and the FileFinder plugin which seems to do the job, but it keeps forgetting it’s keybindings after I set them. How do people open files in Visual Studio? Do they really poke around with a mouse?

Sent to me from Nick: Gummy Lighthouses. We both wish we’d had these last year.

(Thanks to Fil for sending me this one)

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

I’d never heard of these comics before, but they crack me up… in particular the most recent one.

I think that’s a game-changing price. Check it out. There are still a number of features my current phone has and the new iPhone doesn’t (MMS, Copy/Paste, Bluetooth data transfer), but this release seems to plug most of the biggest holes. At $199, I think it will be huge.

These cards are quite funny.

Thank God!

Although this isn’t nearly as interesting as Instant Runoff Voting, it’s still cool to see that Washington is adopting a mechanism of voting that was favored by the people, and opposed by political parties.

I couldn’t find a website that would explain this to me in simple terms, but I was eventually able to figure it out. This is how I was able to connect my MacBook Pro to my cell phone via Bluetooth, and then use it as a modem to get it online (via 3G). To do this, your cell phone needs to support Bluetooth, and being used as a modem (sorry iPhone users). I’m doing this with a Nokia N75, and the connection parameters are specific to Cingular/AT&T.

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