I posted about my software toolbox a while ago. Now I can see what I use and how I divide my time between applications both at home and work using Wakoopa. I can also read reviews and discover other great pieces of software that other people use.
It’s apparent that my workflow is a little disparate but things are looking up (on the Mac front at least) with Coda. One of my colleagues had been beta-testing this for a while and teasingly promising us “something fantastic” but giving nothing else away. Anyway, a few weeks ago it was released so I downloaded and installed for a play and it blew me away. It then totally nuked itself half-way through my demo period. I mean really fsked things up. I had to repair my hard drive for the first time ever (which scared me a little) and Automator won’t open anymore (although to be fair, I don’t know if this is related or not).
A new release of Coda has been made available which hopefully fixed whatever it was that caused my problem in the old version. It looks like I’ll may be using skEdit less and less.
“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”
- Woody Allen
Excellent sentiments Mr. Konigsberg, but while the latter is still not possible, living longer through your work is the only option. I guess having your genes passed on via your offspring is another way but I digress. In my hankering for Internet fame I have produced some pieces of code that could prove to be useful to somebody if not exactly bring the plaudits flooding in from outside the niche that is the web development community. But what to call them? A funky and self-describing name would be excellent. I got excited when I named a holding div “papoose” the other week for goodness sake!
We’re back to kids again. You don’t want to burden them with a name that they’ll be mocked because of for the rest of their lives – unlike Brad and Angelina (Shiloh Pitt? Ever hear of a Spoonerism guys?) or the parents of the unfortunate people I keep finding in my new game.
In trying to find a good name I hit my bookshelves and of course, the Internet. Classical mythology, astronomy, the anatomy of the brain, philosophy, Latin and Yiddish among others. Some ideas are just pretentious (Latin), some have worrying backgrounds (mythology) and some just sound plain stupid. I’m not sure what I’m looking for exactly but if nothing else, I picked up some good pieces of random trivia.
