Paint the Tiger, Carve the Swan

Logos

Matt — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:53:04 +0000

Started up a new iPhone app today. The logo at the bottom of the screen looked a bit familiar:

Here is the logo from the Adelaide City Council (which has been in use for about 7 years):

Wonder which came first…

If I overlay one one the other, we see they are not identical:

Fix Redmine not showing repository data

Matt — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:36:59 +0000

For some time, the git repository I am using to track changes for my Django-Management TextMate bundle was not working correctly in Redmine. I was able to connect it up using the settings, but was getting errors about the files not being found.

It turns out that git was not in my path. Putting a link from /usr/local/bin/git to /usr/bin/git fixed that all up.

TextMate return codes

Matt — Tue, 05 May 2009 08:34:26 +0000

From the TextMate manual:

These functions only work when the initial output option is not set as “Show as HTML”. The list of functions is as follows:

exit_discard

exit_replace_text

exit_replace_document

exit_insert_text

exit_insert_snippet

exit_show_html

exit_show_tool_tip

exit_create_new_document

This is all well and good, but what about when you are in another language?

Simple. Just ensure your exit code matches. The values start at 200, for exit_discard, and 205 is exit_show_html.

This is probably not the best way to do it, as these may change in the future. But, I couldn’t think of another way, at least not offline.

Reasons PHP sucks #753

Matt — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:00:57 +0000

Another good example of a PHP “quirk” is the way PHP handles constants. It was one of the major factors affecting performance. Just removing all the constants allowed us to improve the performance by almost 2x (we left one constant to be precise).

From The Need for Speed.

That’s right - PHP is up to 2X faster if you don’t use constants. You know, that means hardcode values in…

Patch for Mercurial.tmbundle

Matt — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:10:24 +0000

diff -r 5e13047a2284 Support/hg_commit.rb
--- a/Support/hg_commit.rb	Mon Apr 27 11:38:15 2009 +0930
+++ b/Support/hg_commit.rb	Mon Apr 27 11:39:00 2009 +0930
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
   commit_paths_array = matches_to_paths(commit_matches)
   commit_status = matches_to_status(commit_matches).join(":")
   commit_path_text = commit_paths_array.collect{|path| path.quote_filename_for_shell }.join(" ")
-  commit_args = %x{"#{commit_tool}" --status #{commit_status} #{commit_path_text} }
+  commit_args = %x{"#{commit_tool}" --diff-cmd hg,diff --status #{commit_status} #{commit_path_text} }

   status = $CHILD_STATUS
   if status != 0

SWI-Prolog Bundle

Matt — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:32:04 +0000

I’ve cloned and updated the included Prolog bundle to use my Run script.

This can be found at GitHub: SWI-Prolog.tmbundle.

Run Prolog Program

Matt — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:05:34 +0000

In the continuing effort to do ‘productive’ tasks, but not actually the project I am supposed to be working on, I present a TextMate command to run the current prolog file, with nice HTML output, and input via a dialog box.

#! /usr/bin/env ruby

require ENV["TM_SUPPORT_PATH"] + "/lib/tm/executor"

command = [ENV["TM_PROLOG"] || "swipl", "-s", ENV["TM_FILEPATH"]]
two_line = false

welcome = /^(Welcome to SWI-Prolog)|(Copyright )|(SWI-Prolog comes with)|(and you are welcome)|(Please visit)|(For help, use)/

TextMate::Executor.run(command) do |str, type|
  if type == :err
    if two_line
      two_line = false
      # this line is part of the previous message
      "#{str}

" # Is this a warning line? elsif str =~ /(Warning):\s(.*):(\d+):/ warn, file, line = $1, $2, $3 filename = file.split('/')[-1] two_line = true file_link = "\"near\" href=\"txmt://open?line=#{line}&url=file://#{file}\">#{filename}" "

\"#{warn}\">#{warn}: #{file_link}, line #{line}:" elsif str =~ /(ERROR):\s(.*):(\d+):(\d+):\s(.*)/ file, line, char, message = $2, $3, $4, $5 filename = file.split('/')[-1] file_link = "\"near\" href=\"txmt://open?line=#{line}&column=#{char}&url=file://#{file}\">#{filename}" "

\"err\">ERROR: #{file_link}, line #{line}, col #{char}: #{message}

" elsif str =~ /ERROR:\s(.*)/ message = $1 "

\"test fail\">ERROR: #{message}

" elsif str =~ /%\s(.*)\scompiled\s(.*)\ssec,\s(.*)\sbytes/ file, time, length = $1, $2, $3 filename = file.split('/')[-1] file_link = "\"near\" href=\"txmt://open?url=file://#{file}\">#{filename}" "

\"test ok\"> #{file_link} (#{length} bytes) compiled in #{time} sec.

" elsif str =~ welcome "\"copyright\" style=\"font-size:xx-small;\">#{str} " else "

\"output\">#{str}

" end else "

\"output\">#{str}

" end end

Run Django Tests from TextMate

Matt — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:28:40 +0000

It would be cool to be able to run my Django tests from within TextMate.

Update: this version will run just the tests from the active file, if there are any. Otherwise, it runs all of the tests in the whole project.

Here is a Command to do just that:

#! /usr/bin/env ruby

command = [ENV["TM_PYTHON"] || "python", "-u", "#{ENV['TM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY']}/manage.py", "test", "--noinput"]

File.open(ENV['TM_FILEPATH']) do |f|
  f.readlines.each do |line|
    if line =~ /class (.*)\(.*TestCase\):/
      test_case = $1
      app_name = ENV['TM_FILEPATH'].split(ENV['TM_PROJECT_DIRECTORY'])[1].split('/')[1]
      test_name = "#{app_name}.#{test_case}"
      command << test_name
    end
  end
end

require ENV["TM_SUPPORT_PATH"] + "/lib/tm/executor"

ENV["PYTHONPATH"] = ENV["TM_BUNDLE_SUPPORT"] + (ENV.has_key?("PYTHONPATH") ? ":" + ENV["PYTHONPATH"] : "")

TextMate::Executor.run(command) do |str, type|
  if type == :err
    if str =~ /\A[\.EF]*\Z/
      str.gsub!(/(\.)/, "\"test ok\">\\1")
      str.gsub!(/(E|F)/, "\"test fail\">\\1")
      str + "
\n"
    elsif str =~ /\A(FAILED.*)\Z/
      "\"test fail\">#{htmlize $1}\n"
    elsif str =~ /\A(OK.*)\Z/
      "\"test ok\">#{htmlize $1}\n"
    elsif str =~ /^(\s+)File "(.+)", line (\d+), in (.*)/
      indent = $1
      file   = $2
      line   = $3
      method = $4
      indent += " " if file.sub!(/^\"(.*)\"/,"\1")
      url = "&url=file://" + e_url(file)
      display_name = file.split('/').last
      "#{htmlize(indent)}\"near\" href=\"txmt://open?line=#{line + url}\">" +
        (method ? "method #{method}" : "at top level") +
        " in #{display_name} at line #{line}
\n"
    end
  end
end

Flaky Internet at 8:21pm

Matt — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:54:13 +0000

I seem to recall my internet going down, and then coming back up, at around the same time every night.

Tonight it flaked at 8:21pm.

What is the opposite of iTunes Genius?

Matt — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:11:09 +0000

I didn’t realise until today that there was a part of iTunes Genius that makes suggestions when browsing the iTunes store.

I went to click on one item, and got:

Now, why would you go and recommend something you can’t give me? That is just plain mean!