"Deine Stadt" – auch schon dabei?

Auf SPAM bei spiegel online gibts seit ner Weile wirklich fantastische Gedichte von Thomas Gsella über diverse deutsche Städte. Teils bitterbitterböse aber absolut herrlich gereimt. Ich find eigentlich alle gut, aber hier mein bisheriger Favorit:

Ihre Stadt (2)

Das fängt bereits im Bahnhof an
und fährt dir in die Knochen.
Kaum dass man es beschreiben kann:
Es riecht, nein: nicht erbrochen,

es riecht nach faulem Hering nicht
und nicht nach grünem Schinken,
es stinkt einfach. Es herrscht ganz schlicht
das pure, reine Stinken.

Die Menschen atmen durch den Mund,
und dürften sie sich lynchen:
Sie täten es, so schrecklich und
unfassbar stinkt’s in München.

Thomas Gsella

Geil, wa? Ich kanns schon fast auswendig 😀
Ja, ich hab mir natürlich sagen lassen, daß das mitnichten so ist! Und auch in meinen Erinnerungen über den ersten München-Aufenthalt findet sich nichts über derart üble Gestänke! Aber lustig isses trotzdem! Den Rest will ich euch nicht vorenthalten:

Ihre Stadt (1)

Ihre Stadt (3)

Ihre Stadt (4)

Ihre Stadt (5)

Ihre Stadt (6)

Und da wo das herkommt gibts sicher bald noch mehr :] Frag mich schon wann er mit Berlin abrechnet. Oder mit Frankfurt!

melDrop

pchew… I got the stone rolling 😀

ok, this is the homepage for melDrop. I gonna fill it by the time. For now its just a placeholder. Stay tuned.

I just uploaded melDrop to highend3D.com but they gonna take a moment to approve it.

Update: Ok melDrop is up at highend3D:

melDrop – Maya script installer

There should be everthing you need to know about that. I updated resetPivot and temporary uploadet melDropEnabler to sendspace to be awailable as long as its not up at highend as well.
Ah yea and I created a little transparent logo!

ok. Lets give it a try. I gonna make a post on cgtalk about that ^^

Update: Ok I posted at cgtalk, percutio (german Maya forum) and now highend3D as well.. No comments so far. Its been 3 days! They don’t like it 🙁

I mean .. its not the video, isn’t it? People say its a little fast. I know.
Shall I make another recording and then everthing goes BAM??! 😀 I don’t think so. Nah whatever.. I gonna use it anyway.

do-what-I-mean-shit with Autohotkey

Hehe :]

Technical director floh wasn’t thrilled.. But I actually was looking for a way to do this long time:

If you script code sometimes you define stuff, a variable e.g. at the point where you finally want to use this variable you need to go back to the definition somehow (via mouse or cursor) copy it and return to the point where you felt like having that variable available. A word-autocomplete might help in that case as well. But if your var has a long prefix and … nah!

What I actually was looking for:

  • you get the idea: Oh I need this from over there
  • I press a hotkey to remember the position
  • you move to the thing you need and select it
  • you press another hotkey

then its finished: The piece you where looking for is at the spot.
Ok now chill the fuck out: I got this:

This has nothing to do with the code editor: Its all Autohotkey:

  • on Ctrl+Ins it figures out the typing-cursor/caret-position (does not always work FF e.g.)
  • places a tooltip and waits for you to press enter
  • you make a selection somewhere else
  • If you press Enter: It gets the selection
  • clicks the mouse to the old position
  • inserts the selection
  • restores clipboard and mouse position

Thats actually it! If you want to take a look at my puny source code:
or even want to test it out without having Autohotkey try the .exe:

http://goodsoul.de/ahk/rememberPosTool.ahk
http://goodsoul.de/ahk/rememberPosTool.exe
(virus total online check link: suspicios file… well it waits for your keystroke.. 😉 )

First I had an ac’tivAid UserHotkey-snippet without the hotkey on/off crap… but somehow UserHotkeys somehow deselects the current window. Need to look into this later… This example works much better. So it doesn’t matter if you click via mouse or select with keyboard.

BUT: now the downsides:

  • I made it cancel when you scroll with the mouseWheel
  • but if you scroll somehow else its broken of course! Works only on screenspace!
  • some apps do not support the caret-position. Like Firefox for instance.

try on your own risk of course ;]

NotFunnyCartoons.com online now!

A little lunch break post…

Some of you may have seen the comic link to nichtlustig.de. German, yes! But now they finally put an english version online!: notfunnycartoons.com

Links to the first cartoon. So if you need to get started with it :]

Unfortunately there are far less cartoons available: 39 only compared to the 587 brilliant german ones. And of course the text is not written by the original author. Its his font but its slightly thinner that his own writing. For comparison:

german: nichtlustig.de/toondb/030306.html

english: static.notfunny.com/toondb/120413.html

And the color is not the same in this case.
Sorry for being so picky guys. But you could do that with a little more commitment ;]

I hope to see much more there in the future…

Mündungsfeuer – Call of Duty

So eine Sammlung wollte ich ja schon immer mal anlegen! Hier isse:

“An jede Knarre ein Mündungsfeuer, egal ob geschossen wird”

Womöglich sehen sich Cover-Artists den Forderungen der Chefs gestellt NOCH mehr Action in ein Bild zu bringen. Naja und da ist das Bild zwar schon fertig aber was bleibt denn noch einfaches?..

Die Spieleserie Call of Duty ist eine super Kanditat für diese Sparte: Auf Kotaku wurde heute erst wieder nen Bild gepostet :

Tja… sehs dir an: Der Typ sieht ziemlich relaxed aus, hält die Waffe eigentlich nur. Aber nee: BAM! Mündungsfeuer druff ^^ …

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Muzzleflashes – Call of Duty

I always wanted to do a collection of these: Now here it is:

“Lets put a muzzle flash each gun even though there is no one shooting”

Probably cover artist face the insane demands of their bosses to add more action to it. The image is almost finished .. so what to do? ..

The game series Call of Duty is a perfect aspirant for that position: On Kotaku there was just a new cover posted :

I mean.. look: that guy seems completely relaxed. He’s just holding that gun. But BAM! There it is ^^

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nice site: Lifehacker

Why shouldn’t I post about when adding a new link. Nice Idea huh? :]

Lifehacker.com is a real cool glog! There is almost everything I’m interested in besides 3D-Stuff, electronic music, games and demoscene and even more of topics that I really should take a deeper look into:

  • handy tools for every Operating system, even online and very likely free and Open Source
  • customization-stuff and scripts for all sorts of things: Browser, OS, Gadgets
  • helpful Tips & Tricks & Tutorials for OS and tools
  • collections and polls for “Best 5 things for …”

but even stuff like that:

  • DIY (Do-It-Yourself)- and CheapAss-instructions for all kinds of things
  • tips for concentration and sorting tasks (getting things done stuff)
  • simple and comprehensible environment tips
  • fitness for nerds

Of course there is always crappy stuff flooding in e.g. Apple-news … *yawwwn*. But you get to know things beside your everyday round and if you are not happy with anything 100% (Texteditor, Calendar, Notestool..) might be there is already an alternative discussed at lifehacker.

If I finally get to release something Autohotkey-related I’ll definitely try to get it on Lifehacker! There isn’t even a dedicated ac’tivAid-Post! OKok, it lacks a cool presentation… My ac’tivAid-Vidcast is still long time coming ;] nah it will it will..

First I gonna get melDrop going. But thats a quite Maya-kind thing. More about that another time … (hopefully soon :D)

schöne seite: Lifehacker

Warum sollte ich nicht mal einfach darüber schreiben, wenn ich ne Seite mit in die Links mitaufnehmen? :] gute Idee was?

Lifehacker.com ist eine echt großartiger Blog. Dort findet sich fast alles was mich neben 3D-Kram, elektronischer Music, Games und Demoszene noch so interessiert und noch so Zeug wo ich mich eigentlich auch gern noch mehr beschäftigen würde:

  • hilfreiche Tools für alle Betriebssysteme auch online und gern kostenlos und Open Source
  • Customization-Kram und Scripte für alles Mögliche: Browser, OS, Gadgets
  • hilfreiche Tips & Tricks & Tutorials fürs OS und Tools
  • Sammlungen und Abstimmungen für “was ist das beste zum …”

aber halt auch so Sachen wie:

  • DIY (Do-It-Yourself)- und Billigheimer-Anleitungen für alles Mögliche
  • Tips zum besser aufs Arbeiten konzentrieren, Aufgaben sortieren
  • einfache und verständliche Umwelttips
  • Fitness für Nerds

Klar jaucht auch machmal ganz schön viel Mist rein zB über Apple-Kram. Aber man kriegt echt mit was sonst noch so geht wenn man mit irgendwas noch nicht so 100%ig zufrieden ist (Texteditor, Kalender, Notiztool..) kanns gut sein, daß bei Lifehacker schon mal ne Alternative diskutiert wurde.

Wenn ich mal wieder dazu kommen sollte was Autohotkey-mäßiges zu releasen werd ich das definitiv auch versuchen bei Lifehacker an den Mann zu bringen. Nen dedizierten ac’tivAid-Artikel gabs da auch noch nicht. Naja.. mit meinem Vidcast dazu lässt es ja auch noch ein wenig auf sich warten ;] kommt schon noch.

Ersma will ich melDrop auf die Beine kriegen. Aber das is was ziemlich speziell Maya-mäßiges. Dazu nen andermal mehr… (hoffe mal bald 😀 )

scripting insights – fall-throughs

Oh if you are scripting or coding you might come across those “insights”. This is of course to share my thoughts but to have a place to keep and remember this stuff as well. I mean maybe this is completely bollocks!! Comment if you you think so! :]

Ok: fall-throughs:
As I always try to cover as many cases as possible (within reason of course!) I create a lot of masseges to the user. In this style I really became sick of that huge if-else blocks that have the fall-through-message at the end. These tree like creatures:

if ($condition1)
{
    // do all this ...

    if ($condition2)
    {
        if ($condition3)
        {
            // do this too ....
        }
        else
            error "bla because of ...";
    }
    else if ($condition4)
    {
        // do other stuff ...
    }
    else
        error "bla bla blub...";
}
else
    error "bla bla bla...";

this shows the usual style one would do: But there are major drawbacks: the conditions and the error-messages are at opposite positions. And if you add a condition that might escape the whole thing you’d have to add another “scoping-level”…
Ok, now the insight: I write the escape-relevant conditions in negative style a line in the very front of the script:

if (!$condition1)
    error "because of ...";
else if (!$condition2)
    error "because of ...";
else if (!$condition3)
    error "because of ...";
else if (!$condition4)
    error "because of ...";

// now do stuff ...

With this style I have the conditions right at the error messages. The indentation is much less deep. And all the stuff that could crap up the thing is coupled at a definite place.

Ok.. this might sound like kindergarten to a real programmer but. I felt quite smart when doing so ^^

whatever now I wrote it down. So be it.

Hooray its customize day!

Wow, so much cool stuff today:

I just installed a fresh (obviously released yesterday) Find Toolbar Tweaks-version for Firefox 3 from Joji Ikeda. That addon is really a helper highlighting you every occurrence of your search in Firefox. It was already in Firefox 2 but it got outdated for the time being. I remember that there was an occurrence counter … maybe he adds it later.. dunno: More:

I was already digging in gmails DOM to maybe write a greasemonkey script that widens the darn message-box when reading and replying. but as I’m too dumb for that Raffles beat me to it with the userscript: Gmail Full Width 2

btw: On lifehacker – a nerdish website about customizing, tools, environment, fitness and cheapass stuff (whatta punchout combo!) – a best of the best list was just posted. “Best Digital Photo Organizer”, “Best Instant Messenger”, “Best Desktop Media Player”…. All collected over some months only voted by the users of the site. One special contestant triumphed at 3 disciplines:

Best GTD Application: Pen and Paper
Best Note-Taking Tool: Pen and Paper
Best To-Do List Manager: Pen and Paper

Okok 3 quite similar things and I don’t know whats the main difference between “GetThingsDone Application” and “To-Do List Manager” but very interesting that this made it to the tops so widely. 😀

So go download your copy of Pen and Paper now!!