Archive for August, 2009

The Quick Way to Creating Disabled State Icon With Photoshop

Friday, August 28th, 2009 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

For an internal demo, I had to make my own disabled and :hover states of some buttons. In Photoshop (Elements) it was dead easy by adjusting the color in each layer. I found that the following settings worked very well: In Photoshop, create a new layer for each button state. Select the layer and choose […]

How to add Git Pull Shortcut to Different Github Branches

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

UPDATE 9 hours later: Changed to “remote = origin” to the specific branch “remote = dean” which works! Short explanation on how to pull changes from different Git repositories into your local Git repository. Last week I worked with three different Github forks of a project. Now for standard, when you clone a Github repository, […]

Rup vs Scrum vs Kanban

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

For a presentation tomorrow, my colleague Mads decided to include this illustration that compares the number of “rules” in some of the most used software development philosophies.I think the visualization has it all: RUP is pretty prescriptive – it has over 30 roles, over 20 activities, and over 70 artifacts. You aren’t supposed to use […]

Remove smileys in messenger program (iChat for mac)

Thursday, August 13th, 2009 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

It has long annoyed me that there is no intuitive, straightforward way to disable smileys in chat programs. Today I found that these two commands can do it for iChat for mac: $ cd /Applications/iChat.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ $ mv SmileyTable.plist SmileyTable.plist.bak Restart iChat. (tip from MacOSXhints.com: Disable graphical smileys in iChat 3.0 but it works for me […]