This is for anyone who uses Scrumy and Google Chrome.

I managed to carve out a chunk of weekend hack time to learn about Google Chrome Extensions. I ended up writing Scrumy Live Stats.

At work, this should help with our future planning meetings, where we often want a rundown of the hours we’ve charted for an upcoming sprint, and we often have at least a hundred tasks up on the board. It’s also nice to see an instant rundown of the hours of work complete vs. the hours left in a sprint instead of waiting for Scrumy’s cron to take a snapshot for the daily burndown.

I also made the very simple source code available on github: https://github.com/otanistudio/scrumy_live_stats.

By the way, writing Chrome Extensions is incredibly easy. Once I figured out how extensions worked, it took me less time to write and deploy this than it took for the Packers to beat the Steelers in Super Bowl XLV. Impressive work, Google Chrome team!

My next task for this project is to look into some type of “live burndown” using Google Charts…

My quick blog entry about uninstalling Evernote on the Mac has been seeing a small spike of hits in the last few days. It has been making me think about ways to measure customer abandonment.

I’ve been using TortoiseSVN often, but find myself still needing command-line svn occasionally. The repository I’m working with talks over ssh. Instead of the annoyance of configuring OpenSSH, I used TortoisePlink, part of the TortoiseSVN install.

My Subversion config file is buried in C:\Documents and Settings\robert\Application Data\Subversion\config

I changed the line:

ssh = $SVN_SSH

to: 

ssh = TortoisePlink.exe 

I became happy again.

This should probably go under “it’s really funny right now, but will seem very uninteresting tomorrow.”

FRIEND: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.is-writable.php

ME: haha

FRIEND: yeah

ME: is_that_what_i_think_it_is()

FRIEND: is_that_really_what_i_think_it_is()

ME: aliased to is_this_what_i_really_want()

FRIEND: i looked it up real quick because someone had the wrong spelling in it in our code

ME: which returns constants, including IM_NOT_SURE_WHY_DONT_U_ASK_PERL_THAT

ME: haha that's a funny blog write up

ME: i think i'll write it now

FRIEND: yay

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Feb 09, 2007

Dustin Diaz said… Wow that’s pretty bad. I’m still waiting for an alias to touch called “feel.”

I just whipped up this simple orbiting domo-kun animation in JavaScript.

After playing around with JavaScript’s Math trig methods (particularly Math.sin and Math.cos), one thing led to another, and after watching a few domo-kun videos on YouTube, I was inspired to use its picture in the effect.