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Tooling Up: FireFox

I am by no means, a huge Joel on Software fan, but I felt this was a fantastic writeup of what web standards are (and are not).

Martian Headsets - Joel on Software:

You’re about to see the mother of all flamewars on internet groups where web developers hang out. It’ll make the Battle of Stalingrad look like that time your sister-in-law stormed out of afternoon tea at your grandmother’s and wrapped the Mustang around a tree.

Back when I used to play wow, and read the forums actively, one of the things that drove me crazy where people below level 60 (or 70 now) who would post just crap. Often referred to as trolls. Well, sometime ago, I wrote a little Greasemonkey script to simply remove any non-70 posts from the actual threads (you can still see troll threads on the listing page).

I sent it to a few people, so I decided to throw it up here: Install: Wow Forum Troll Remover

While you can’t actually see the posts by the first four posters (none where level 70) — you can feel the stupid emanating from them, best they be removed.

I haven’t been good about keeping my .gvimrc & .vimrc up to date, so click on them if you want to see them.

When you first start using windows vista search, even the “advanced search” — it feels very fast, but, you don’t know how to do much, and the interface really doesn’t do a good job of “teaching” you to use the interface.

As an avid SVN user, I was annoyed by .svn data files coming up in the interface, my first stab at fixing it was to try to tweak the file type, or maybe create a custom IFilter… talk about over-thinking a simple problem.

“foobar NOT folder:blah” — that is it. Show all files with foobar in name or in contents, but not if they are in folder blah.

Now that is just the tip of the iceberg, check out: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/technicalresources/advquery.mspx#top there is a lot of great stuff.

Beyond that, if you want to play with it a bit more, and don’t mind being on the cutting edge, check out: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940157

I am impressed with both the speed (for opening up new copies) and the new search feature in — Vista’s Explorer.