John Gruber on Brushed Metal look:

Let’s say I have a Safari window and an iChat window open side-by-side, with no overlap. I think the Safari window is active, but it’s actually the iChat window. I type Cmd-T to open a new tab in Safari, but instead, I get the Font Panel in iChat.

Agreed. Just closed an iChat window instead of a Safari window with Cmd-w. Thankfully I have autologging enabled in iChat.

As I promised, here’s a macro/snippet trick you can use to create a ruby function definition in TextMate:

1. Create a new snippet as follows and bind it to trigger _def:
   

   
   
   def ${1:funcname}
   
       $2
   
   end
   
   

1. Type word ‘test’ into a new document (to be used in the macro recording).
2. Start recording pressing alt-command-M.
3. Press alt-W to select the word you wrote in step 2. Note that this selects the word you’re in unless you already have a selection (in which case the selection stands intact). Therefore starting a new macro like this with alt-W is almost always a very neat trick.
4. Press command-X to cut the selected word.
5. Type ‘_def’ and press tab to invoke the snippet you created in step 1.
6. Press command-V to paste the word you cut a few steps ago.
7. Press tab to move the cursor to the second insertion point of the snippet (i.e. in the middle of the def block).
8. Stop recording the macro and save it. David Heinemeier Hansson uses keybinding command-enter for this macro and it sounds like a reasonable option to me, but feel free to select the binding as you please.

There you go! Now you can just type the name of the function and hit command-enter and get the function body created for you. Note that this technique is by no means limited to ruby or function definitions. You can actually do with it almost anything. Just let your imagination fly!

UPDATE ⁰⁴¹⁰⁰⁷: I’m now the licensee #75. Who’re you :op

The long and rainy fall has turned a lot brighter today, as the highly anticipated TextMate is finally here. It’s admittedly still a bit raw apple (pun intended) but still easily comes even with the huge buzz it was laden beforehand.

Some very handy features:

• Handling of projects ala Dreamweaver
• Very easily extendable with the built-in macro and snippet features
• Comes pre-installed with syntax highlighting package for Ruby, Rails, and many more languages. Besides that, writing your own language bundle is a breeze.
• Considering its features, TextMate is very lightweight
• Most importantly, TM just feels right. It just sits a lot more naturally on my desktop than BBEdit, not to mention Emacs which I otherwise love.

OK, enough of that. If you are a lucky one equipped with an OS X box, go get a copy, right now, thank you very much. If you’re at all like me and fall in love with the editor, you’d be happy to shell out the forty bucks for the candy (who said a text editor should cost hundreds of dollars).

As a final carrot, I’ll be sharing a few macro and snippet examples on this very forum. Stay tuned!

TextDrive announced a new 2GB/40GB hosting plan and I got into the hook immediately. Well, actually I was kind of needing the extra hardrive space so a 100% increase with 50 extra bucks wasn’t that bad. Besides, if (or when 8) I get slashdotted, I’ve now got 4 times as much bandwidth to abuse. Oh, and did I mention TextDrive runs Rails? Oh, the beautiful life…

OK, I’m back after an eventful weekend at the coast. I run two competitions on the Saturday and then we had the housewarming party of my friend in Turku.

The first race was the Finnish Relay League final, I ran in our second team since I was feeling really tired after the military games. The race went still quite ok.

On the afternoon we had the first-ever SonniTonni, club championships in 1000m on the track. I finished second at 2:43, a very good time considering the hard schedule during the previous days.

Anyway, we are moving to a new flat these days, so my posts will still be pretty irregular for a few days. I hope I can still dig into my Rails project soon again.

Apologies for my few days’ absence from here. Things have not stagnated, however, I was just running the Finnish champs in military troop orienteering this week (which we — coincidentally — won ;). Have to go to drink some coffee and eat a piece of cake with a few generals now, I’ll continue my changeover later.

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I’ll from now on stop writing entries to my Blogger.com blog Almost Finnished. They will instead appear here.

Gosh, let’s take this lorem ipsum bs away from here.