• @edbrenner @nickcates thanks guys. breathing clear this morning. #
• @willwoodgate jquery would proly be a lot simpler in reply to willwoodgate #
• my 3 yo is singing "if you happy in your nose, cwap yose hands" she is very excited for trick or treating. #
• whew! it's a cold one trick or treating tonight. #
• @modsuperstar lol in reply to modsuperstar #
• is it wring to pee in someones pumpkin? man I have to go! #

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• Just deleted 132 GB of archived files that my backup system was supposed to remove automatically. *sigh* #
• Listening to '01 Gypsy Woman' by Muddy Waters. #
• to all my RW dev peeps, I demo'd RapidWeaver last night at #kwdesignmeetup. sorry I didn't have time to get discount codes from you. #
• Listening to 'Illusions' by Cypress Hill. #
• exporting last nights RapidWeaver demo so I can upload it to Vimeo. #
• OH: 'Boom Biddy Bye Bye' #
• is there no pro version of the new QuickTime 10.0? I can only export with version 7? #
• kickin' it ol skule to 'Jingling Baby' by LL Cool J. #
• @pilky @kbbrux tnx guys. I still have QT 7 Pro so all is not lost yet. #
• my twitter applescript is awesome untill I look at the code… kludge… needs some serious refining. #
• what ever happened to GWDI themes? #
• 'What is RapidWeaver' demo movie now being uploaded. #
• Listening to 'Space Oddity' by David Bowie. #
• Listening to 'Master Charge' by Albert Collins. #
• here is the RapidWeaver demo video from #kwdesignmeetup last night http://vimeo.com/7349179 #
• Nicely done Charlie RT @blueballdesign: new demo site for the upcoming Blueball Focus Rapidweaver theme release: http://tr.im/DBXg #
• @blueballdesign it's a bag load of work. I use @lillowen for my press releases and get enough verbiage from that to spread around. in reply to blueballdesign #
• Dear Plaxo, I don't have a fucking Plaxo account, so stop letting ppl add me as their Plaxo fucking friends! Am I clear? #
• I hate it when social services totally abuse peoples address books. FARG! #
• well that's it for me. time to make pizza and carve pumpkins. #
• just had the worst asthma attack in proly 5 years. I actually started to panick. #
• @_RWT_ yeah. my heart's racing from the drugs though. I hate that. there's enough to hate about asthma, the cure shouldn't be one, lol. in reply to _RWT_ #
• @kevinleehansen acme… no seriously, TSC, William Knells, SOWA… in reply to kevinleehansen #
• @pilky happy b-day in reply to pilky #

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• SitePoint has released a new book, Fancy Web Forms: http://sh.orti.ca/i/3k #
• Listening to 'cocoaFusion 010: NSOutlineView And Drawing' by Danny Greg and Kevin Hoctor. #
• FRAK! Googles banned me from searching in anything nut their Google Search page. Can't search from Safari, GQSB, FireFox… #
• Run a whois query from the current page in Safair using AppleScript: http://sh.orti.ca/i/3l #
• just discovered, that you can drag an image onto the image well in OS X ColorPicker and use it select colors. http://sh.orti.ca/i/3m #
• Listening to 'Xplosion' by Outkast. #
• Listening to 'Steppin' Out' by John Mayall. #
• getting my PHUNK ON to 'Check The Technique' by Gang Starr. #
• there is no DJ better the Premi #
• this white boys head be snapping so hard it might fall off! boom-bap, chicka-chicka, boom-bap! #
• bringing it back a notch now with 'October Road' by James Taylor. #
• time to hit the shower. Going for a massage this afternoon. #
• @Brydon on the iPhone version of TweetDeck I keep getting and endless loop of tweets. in reply to Brydon #
• we're home for barely 2 minutes and my 3 yo is stripped down to underweaver and sunglasses. kids. #
• @zeebe lol underweaver… I need a break… in reply to zeebe #
• anyone find parking for tonights waterloo web dev meetup? frak me! I have to hike 5 miles to the Huether now. #
• RT @modsuperstar: Lots of new faces at #kwdesignmeetup tonight #
• OH: "I like cheese" who writes this shit? #kwdesignmeetup #
• Glen from Communitech is talking. has mentioned the cost yet… eh-hem… or has he? #kwdesignmeetup #
• @ENBdavies lol tnx. the logo didn't start out so cool 5 years ago but it's coming along. in reply to ENBdavies #
• Kevin from RIM is speaking at #kwdesignmeetup They're looking for ppl to develope for the Blackberry platform. #
• Pound the numbers… sounds like the old MS vs Apple stand. #kwdesignmeetup #
• OH: "what does that mean? I have no idea." Kevin talking about Blackberry marketing. #kwdesignmeetup #
• OH: "comparing apples to berries…" #kwdesignmeetup #

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• Listening to 'SitePoint Podcast #31: SitePoint Cofounders Mark & Matt' by SitePoint. #
• Anyone using the new Pownce… erm… Typepad Motion? http://sh.orti.ca/i/3g #
• Listening to 'SitePoint Podcast #32: Everything in the Cloud' by SitePoint. #
• RT @willwoodgate: Image URL stack updated. Renamed Image from URL, includes a class attribute and installer: http://sh.orti.ca/i/3h #
• @kevinleehansen are we taking bets? in reply to kevinleehansen #
• Need to make a 'What is RapidWeaver' screen cast for the Waterloo web design meetup on thursday. #
• Listening to 'SitePoint Podcast #33: Team Opera at WDS09' by SitePoint. #
• Listening to 'Personal Jesus' by Depeche Mode. #
• Listening to 'Learning To Fly' by Pink Floyd. #
• WTF, WordPress commenting is far superior. Some ppl are weird. RT @nilrog: Why would one want to use Echo commenting with a WordPress blog? #
• @WebKarnage who is? you're helping with SitePoint podcast? in reply to WebKarnage #
• @spellbunny all us smart, powerful and sexy ppl of awesomeness listen to Depeche Mode don't we! We should start a club. We rock. in reply to spellbunny #
• Behold the WONDER of the Naked Mole Rat: http://sh.orti.ca/i/3i via irc#macosx on freenode #
• @WebKarnage srsly? what does that mean exactly? in reply to WebKarnage #
• ok, this is a retweet, but srsly, Mole Rats might rid the world of cancer! http://sh.orti.ca/i/3i #
• @elixirgraphics advice to you: your photog will likely have a lot of good advice as to how the day will/should proceed. Listen to her. in reply to elixirgraphics #
• @elixirgraphics photogs go to more weddings then any other person, they have seen it all and are full of great advice. in reply to elixirgraphics #
• @elixirgraphics photogs are the original, unofficial wedding planner, before there was such a profession. in reply to elixirgraphics #
• @lillowen NO! the cartoons were all wrong! I t should have been Mighty Naked Mole Rat, not Mighty Mouse. but it never took off… in reply to lillowen #
• Listening to 'Mean Mistreating Mama' by Elmore James. #
• RT @realmacsoftware: Want to know more about the LittleSnapper menu item? blog post: http://bit.ly/3ixsH5 #
• time to hit the showers and tackle a screen cast after. #
• Google Groups is Dead http://bit.ly/1NgE3A #
• Listening to 'SearchEngine: The Open Source Vagina' by TVO | Jesse Brown. #
• Listening to 'SearchEngine: Section 13, Hate Speech, and the Streisand Effect' by TVO | Jesse Brown. #
• I am the master of the 'uh' in screen casts. ppl better brace themselves for tomorrow night. #
• I must say the new screenflow is pretty slick. too bad I am not. #
• @sundog no I'm not the master of screen recordings, just the master of saying "uh" in them. in reply to sundog #
• no support today. what's up with that? #
• only on irc can you see someone call someone elses mother a 'hoor'. WTF is a 'hoor'? #
• don't know why but of all the chores I despise, giving the kids their bath is at the top of the list. must be because they fight it so much. #
• It scares me to here talk like this, scared people who don't know any better. srsly, just get the shot: http://sh.orti.ca/i/3j #

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• cross browser @font-face http://sh.orti.ca/i/3d #
• Tweeting with AppleScript. Want to link Last.fm and iTunes to it now. #
• This might take a bit of doing. #
• someone must have done this before. googling now. #
• Me and my youngest might be meeting Mom for lunch, yay! #
• Ignore this tweet, I am testing an AppleScript. #
• RT @realmacsoftware: LittleSnapper 1.5.2 is out. …includes new status bar item, which can run separately to the app: http://bit.ly/2SFtOa #
• ok, time to hit the shower. #
• I guess I was on to something when I wrote scripts for LittleSnapper http://sh.orti.ca/i/3e because it now includes this and more natively. #
• head bouncin' to 'D'evils' by Jay-Z. #
• Nice. I have compiled a general purpose AppleScript twitter client that can also tweet my iTunes tracks. #
• just a few… more… bugs… #
• …I think… I have… got it… #
• it could use some major cleanup… #
• hmm… it shouldn't have let me do that… #
• works when iTunes isn't running… #
• works when iTunes isn't playing… #
• but when it is doing both… cool… #
• Just listening to 'The Final Cut' by Pink Floyd… ok… I think I have this one in the bag! #
• Just listening to 'Jeepers Creepers' by Louis Armstrong. #
• this is a test #
• ohhhh… this whole script needs a rewrite. It works, but it's full of repetitive crap. #
• @blueballdesign I have redone 23 demo sites since mid-september. I made a defaults system using @stash(()), PHP which has made life simpler. in reply to blueballdesign #
• Just listening to 'The Animals of the World' by Great Lake Swimmers. #
• Just listening to 'Five Long Years' by Eric Clapton. #
• @maplemuse huh? in reply to maplemuse #
• @maplemuse it's not meant for anything outside the system. It's just a simple means of running a shell command that generates a unique #. in reply to maplemuse #
• @maplemuse you could take the notion farther and write a complex routine, etc… but this is just for a quick number. I use it all the time in reply to maplemuse #
• Pound the Quality: iPhone vs Android http://sh.orti.ca/i/3f #

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There are numerous reasons you might need a unique identifier on something; you upload files with common names to the same ftp site, you use the id attribute for internal links on a blog that might display multiple posts (the chances of repeating yourself are good), you want to sign your emails with a unique, one time id for your own verification… Whatever the case, a unique id could come in handy.

The easiest thing to do is use a timestamp and a shell script can do that easily enough for us. For everyday use, the year, month, day, hour, minutes and seconds should suffice (unless you need multiple unique id’s per second). Here is how the bash script would look:

date +%y%m%d%H%M%S

Entering this string into the Terminal.app would yield a twelve digit number like this:

091027191546

The first pair of digits is the year, the second pair is the month, the third pair is the day, then the hour, minutes and seconds (all in pairs). Run this script in Terminal.app as many times as you like and you will never get the same number.

So you could enter this into your terminal every time you wanted a unique id… or you could make this shell script work for you from anywhere.

TextMate Snippet

TextMate makes running shell scripts dead easy — all you need to do is create your own snippet. To do this:

• open your Bundle editor — Bundles > Bundle Editor > Show Bundle Editor or ⌃⌥⌘B
• create a new bundle (if you don’t already have your own) from the + icon
• within that bundle create a new snippet from the + icon

• in the edit window, type:

  `date +%y%m%d%H%M%S`
  

• define a Tab Trigger or Key Equivalent
• leave the scope selector blank to have the snippet apply to all language types

Now you have a snippet that is accessible in any language scope you use TextMate for. This is handy if you write reference links in HTML articles, such as:

<a href="#note_091027194043">See this note</a>
<div id="note_091027194043">
    This is the special note I wanted you to see.
</div>

Or for reference style links in MarkDown:

Check out our site, [seyDoggy][a_091027194631], for some
really cool tips and tricks.

[a_091027194631]: http://www.seydoggy.com/  "seyDoggy's really cool site"

Download

Download your fresh copy of “Unique ID.tmSnippet” from seyDoggy.com.

AppleScript to clipboard

Say you’re not a TextMate user but you still want a quick way to run this shell script with as little effort as possible. AppleScript makes quick work of this task with it’s do shell script functionality. We need to make an AppleScript that runs the shell script, then copies the results to the clipboard. Then we can paste that result into what ever we’re working with at the time; file renaming, email signing, etc…

Here is how the script looks:

set uniqueID to (do shell script "date +%y%m%d%H%M%S")
set the clipboard to uniqueID
display alert "\"" & uniqueID & "\"" & "Has been copied to your ¬
    clipboard" giving up after 1

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Get your fresh copy of “UniqueID.scpt” from CodeCollector.net

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• this ginormous zit brewing under the skin on the tip of my nose is making me look rather comical. #
• @zeebe lol in reply to zeebe #
• @sundog sorry in reply to sundog #
• @lillowen in reply to lillowen #
• Just upgraded to ScreenFlow 2.0 #
• ROFL RT @nickcates: RWT just put out a countdown stack… Better hide that from Omnidea, ha ha. Oh.. I'll never forget that #
• You said it brother! RT @_RWT_: #customersupporttips – It really helps if you specify what product you are having trouble with. #
• @_RWT_ ? re: Omnidea or support tips? in reply to _RWT_ #
• srsly… Windows 7 is out… why am I testing sites on IE6 for XP? WTF. That's not even funny. That's retarded. RE-TAR-DEAD! #
• @jrodgers don't know that I had it TBH. If I did then it was mild. I'm just going to call this one a cold. My niece was confirmed though. in reply to jrodgers #

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• Waterloo Public Library is raising money with the help of Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, Kenney Chesney… http://sh.orti.ca/i/3c #

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• FAWK! pressed esc while publishing an RW demo site. #
• Holy snap, I wrote that YEARS ago RT @ejunkie: @zeebe it's a breeze. tutorial: http://bit.ly/hsXOn example: http://www.elixirgraphics.com/ #

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• I had no idea that site search was possible within Google QSB http://sh.orti.ca/i/38 #
• RT @ejunkie: If you're a web designers/developer who has implemented… [E-junkie] for a client, reply back (to @ejunkie )with the URL. #
• @jschumann you should pee on it, make it yours for good in reply to jschumann #
• The next DemoCampGuelph is set for Jan 27, 2010 http://sh.orti.ca/i/39 see you there #dcg #
• RT @DEVi8: Apple.com leading the way with html5 implementation – http://sh.orti.ca/i/3a #
• i iz teh sick #
• The South Western Ontario iPhone Dev meet-up is this coming Monday http://sh.orti.ca/i/3b #
• @jrodgers that was from inside the bubble… wifi ninja style in reply to jrodgers #
• @elixirgraphics first two days I just _sounded_ sick. now I _feel_ sick too. in reply to elixirgraphics #
• time for tea and cakes like Nan used to make us… but without rum in the tea and without soaking the cakes in brandy… what was she up to? #
• I find I spend more time in IRC channels then I do on twitter. Less internet marketers there #
• RT @ryanbsmith 2 new screencasts on the weaverPix plugin, now available at RapidWeaver Classroom! http://thurly.net//3ve #
• me too RT @_RWT_: I second the motion to add a LittleSnapper button to the RW toolbar …. #
• @twodayslate mostly ##textmate or #macosx (both on freenode) in reply to twodayslate #
• RT @_RWT_: New Stack I am working on … http://thurly.net//6v2 … Its a countdown Stack that uses UTCDate info #
• STOP! Collaborate and listen… RT @Brydon: wow, great to see vanilla still making it work.. http://bit.ly/c41Ph #
• ack! WordPress 2.8.5 is out. updating, updating… #

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