Nordaaker http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/ Nordaaker is the company where Arne and Marcus collect all their activities. The name originates from Arne's grandparents' place, close to where Marcus grew up. This blog will contain information related to our web apps, as well as other stuff we find interesting. en Copyright 2008 Thu, 01 May 2008 15:34:20 +0100 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Spying on your web browser for fun and profit When developing web apps, I sometimes have a need to see the traffic that floats between my browser and various web servers. Since I'm mostly developing in FireFox, I've been using the excellent web debugging tool Firebug for this up until lately, but since it can only see what the browser can see, this solution has left me wanting some times.

HTTPScoop solves this problem nicely for me. You can select what interface to listen to, it gets traffic from any browser, and you have a really nice packet inspection tool, that lets you see all the details about the request and response.

]]> http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2008/05/spying-on-your-web-browser-for.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2008/05/spying-on-your-web-browser-for.html App Highlights Thu, 01 May 2008 15:34:20 +0100 A solution to the port mapping problem If you have struggled with mapping ports to local computers you will love Port Map. Giving Marcus access to my computer via ssh today was incredibly easy.

No need to fiddle with your router as long as you have uPnP enabled in your router.

]]> http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2008/05/mapping-ports.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2008/05/mapping-ports.html App Highlights Thu, 01 May 2008 03:29:38 +0100 weewar and pyWeeStatus WeeWar is this new turn-based strategy game, all implemented in web and AJAXy goodness, that I and most of the techies as work has become addicted to. It's located at www.weewar.com, and it seems you currently need to request an invite to get in. Anyways, it's a totally cool game and worth trying.

However, as you play a turnbased game, sometimes you have to wait a few hours for the next move. That's why my coworker and awesome hacker Andreas Marienborg wrote pyWeeStatus..

As you can see from the screenshot, it's a menubar item. It lists all your ongoing games, and once it's your turn, the little man turns blue, and shows you which game requires your attention when you click on him. Andreas says he wrote this thing in python because there is no good osx menubar gui stuff for Perl. I'd love to prove him wrong on that one, so if anyone has some info on it, please send us a mail :)

*update* Andreas also mentions that he's ported this thing to GNU/Linux too, for those of you who are running other environments as well :)

]]> http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2007/09/weewar-and-pyweestatus.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2007/09/weewar-and-pyweestatus.html App Highlights Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:23:47 +0100 AOTW: TaskPaper There are quite a few apps on iusethis, and I see this blog as an oportunity to highlight some of the apps that we find (since we are quite avid users of the site ourselves).

First one out is TaskPaper by Jesse Grosjean, the man behind WriteRoom. It is a simple to-do list manager.


The premise of TaskPaper is incredibly simple, you create lists based on a simple markup language, and it formats it accordingly. The file you create is a plain text-file and can be opened in any application and highly readable.


The version that is out now (0.2) is very basic, but is well thought-through and has great potential. The developer is very responsive and can be challenged on all his ideas, his goal is to create a great app. I'm looking forward to how it evolves.


]]> http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2007/08/aotw-taskpaper.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2007/08/aotw-taskpaper.html App Highlights Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:19:36 +0100 Marsedit has a vox blog Daniel Jalkut's blog: "Well things were feeling kind of empty in here and, after all, I'm about to start tackling Vox support, so it would be nice to have some items show up in MarsEdit when I make my first 'get posts' call."

Daniel has just confirmed that Vox is going to get supported in a coming version of MarsEdit.

]]> http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2007/03/marsedit-has-a-vox-blog.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2007/03/marsedit-has-a-vox-blog.html App Highlights Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:41:53 +0100 Textmate Both Arne and I are avid Textmate users, and most of iusethis has been coded
in it. I really love how easily I can navigate, both with apple-t (Go to file) and it's autocomplete, and by browsing the project drawer. The project wide search also often comes in handy.

As a perl programmer, I also often use ctrl-shift-v for validation. Being able to see that my code is well formed easily is very time-saving. I haven't quite learned all the various key
combos yet, but apple-ctrl-t lets me easily find the function I'm after. There's lots of useful built in functions like an online paste service, svn and svk integration, and code templates.

Textmate also has several useful plugins. I've registered the ones I know of on iusethis, under the textmate tag.

All in all, Textmate has been a huge help for me when coding iusethis, but as I understand it's also quite useful to web designers. I'll try to get Arne to do a followup post on his favorite functions :)

*update* There is one tip I forgot to mention, something I use a lot. I've set up QuickSilver to index the Source folder in my homedir. That way I can open one of my projects directly from quicksilver, by selecting it and using 'Open With' 'TextMate' . Then it comes up ready as a project. This lets me context switch really easily.

]]> http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2007/02/textmate.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2007/02/textmate.html App Highlights Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:44:02 +0100 Dummy review of iTerm iTerm is the bomb. and this is a review. we love typing not mousing.

]]> http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2006/02/trackback-test-1.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2006/02/trackback-test-1.html App Highlights Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:31:06 +0100