Comments on: Color Fader Updated + Other Stuff

By: patorjk

patorjk — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:27:05 +0000

Nope, I only get credit if they’re clicked. And in the case of referrals, I only get credit if the program is installed. According to my stats, a huge chunk of my audience uses FF, and I’d assume many of those user’s have the ad block plug in installed. Personally, I don’t mind at all. This site isn’t about making money and I don’t want ads to clutter up the place and make it look bad. If they bring in something, it’d be nice, but I don’t have high expectations.

By: Carmen

Carmen — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:36:02 +0000

Many people now use Fire Fox as their choice of browser because of the ad ons. With FF they have the ad blocker, so most wouldn’t even see it. Don’t know if you get credit for it though.

By: patorjk

patorjk — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:39:56 +0000

On your suggestion I just downloaded Eclipse and have been playing around a bit. So far I’m having a little trouble getting it to open PHP files (I’m currently downloading some more updates for it though), thanks for the suggestion!

Eclipse was one of the possible editors I could have used at an old job of mine, but I never tried it out. Instead I stuck to nedit. Now I kind of wish I’d taken the time to acquaint myself with it some, but oh well.

At this writing, the only knowledge I have of the program comes from Steve Yegge’s occasional unflattering jabs (“Man Dies Waiting for Eclipse to Launch”):

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/09/steveys-tech-news-issue-1.html

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:58:45 +0000

If you don’t mind some bloat, eclipse has plugins for just about any language–I checked, and it does have them for js and php.

UltraEdit does have the advantage of being a stream editor, but it can’t come close to providing the kind of nice happy editing capabilities that an IDE has…..

And I don’t know how large the files you’re handling are going to be–probably not that big since you’ll be writing them yourself–so the advantage of Ultra Edit being a stream editor is kind of a non-advantage.

It does write/read/convert amoung many file formats though.

By: patorjk

patorjk — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:16:46 +0000

Thanks. Color faded text used to be popular in AOL chat rooms. When over used it becomes kind of cheesy, but it can look good if used in the right places.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:29:27 +0000

Well done. I expected it to be an image of text but it’s actual text which is useful.

By: patorjk

patorjk — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:36:45 +0000

sloat – Free is always preferable, though I want something I trust, so I’m always a little skeptical about some of these free programs (spyware, ads, etc). Thanks for the wikipedia link and recommendations, I’ll look into some of those.

Awesome AnDrEw – Interstitial ads bug the crap about of me, same with pop ups and ads that make sound. I wouldn’t want to annoy any of my visitors which is why I would only really consider something like Google Ads. I’d have to find a way to do it so it’d look nice too, so I’m not even sure if I’ll do it.

By: Awesome AnDrEw

Awesome AnDrEw — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:47:50 +0000

As far as advertisements go Google Adsense, and things along those line aren’t too intrusive. Interstitial ads are what really turn people off so steer clear of those unless that’s what you want to do.

By: sloat

sloat — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:01:50 +0000

There are a lot of free text editors for Windows.

I’m using jEdit right now. It’s decent, but it is java, so it’s slow to start up and just kills memory.

Vim/Cream is pretty good. Cream is kinda sluggish. Vim by itself is kinda primitive.

Komodo Edit is good if you need an IDE more or less. But it’s a little more than lightweight.

Wikipedia has a list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors

But if you like UltraEdit and think it’s worth $50, go for it.