http://jeffwinkler.net Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:26:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Alberto and Bob were kind enough to comment. Sounds like good news: \"Recent developments might give us an opportunity to not only continue to support Crap4j, but to take it to the next level.\" - Alberto \"I am the maintainer... I will be getting it updated to Ganymede shortly, and getting everything ... http://jeffwinkler.net/2008/10/27/crap4j-update/ Crap4J is/was a great Eclipse plugin which computes code crappiness via JUnit coverage testing vs. cyclomatic complexity. In short: Tests Good, Complexity Bad. I tended to use it for TDD as a lightweight coverage tool. You could simply run a test, and the gutter annotations show if the line was tested ... http://jeffwinkler.net/2008/10/23/whither-crap4j/ A while back, This American Life did a fantastic show on the subprime crisis - "The Giant Pool of Money". The show did a great job of tracing the steps as crap loans were repackaged and aggregated, ending up as AAA paper: Alex Blumberg: Glen [Pizzolorusso, who was an area sales ... http://jeffwinkler.net/2008/09/22/planet-money-podcast/ My Xootr MG review is up over at Cool Tools.  I've been taking the Xootr on the commuter rail since April - it's twice as fast as walking. http://jeffwinkler.net/2008/09/10/xootr-review/ We've been working through Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day. It's amazing. Per the NYT: "The technique is more or less as streamlined as this: Mix flour, salt, yeast and water. Let it sit a bit, refrigerate it, take some out and let it rise, then bake it. The ... http://jeffwinkler.net/2008/05/04/artisan-bread-in-5-minutes-a-day/ Inspired by Redfin's Walkscore, I've done a GreaseMonkey script to link to Yelp from Redfin listings. (thanks rouftop and Navtej!) It looks like this: Install the Firefox plugin Greasemonkey Restart Firefox Install the YelpFin Greasemonkey script Find some Redfin listings and click the link that appears below the address http://jeffwinkler.net/2008/04/15/yelpfin/ Posting from Google DocsGdocs can post to your blog. Very nice.As long as I'm posting to test, some Friday links:Paradox of choice - why abundance of choice is making us miserable.Business Technology : Bigger Computer Monitors = More ProductivityPete Seeger's Banjo http://jeffwinkler.net/2008/03/14/172/ When using Google Docs, the default Firefox menu is overridden. No sweet spellchecker goodness. Using Tools/Options and unchecking "Disable or Replace Context menus", you can get both menus. Confused? Try the movie - 1:54, with sound. http://jeffwinkler.net/2008/03/09/using-firefox-spellcheck-with-google-docs/ This made me laugh hard... bodes well - Howdy and welcome to RescueTime- We'll make this short and sweet... Here's your login info (store it in a cool dry place): Username: jeff@server.com Password: As IF we would send you your password in cleartext! http://jeffwinkler.net/2008/03/09/great-validation-email/ My last post was about full-screen text editors. The goal is to reduce options and choices, encouraging focus and flow. Turns out, there is a more general solution - Clutter Cloak. Invoke it with a keystroke - CC obscures everything on the screen except the child window immediately under the ... http://jeffwinkler.net/2008/03/08/hide-distractions-with-clutter-cloak/