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 Sun, 04 May 2008 17:56:22 +0100 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Sunday relaxation: Freakangels. We both like to read graphics novels, and since it's sunday and time to relax, I would like to share one of my recent favorites with you. Warren Ellis, the brilliant author who brought us Transmetropolitan, as well as a great number of other cool comics, is collaborating with Paul Duffield to create an amazing weekly web comic.

Freakangels (Atom/RSS feed for newsreader junkies) is a post-apocalyptic story with a distinct steam punk flavor. I read the first 12 episodes in one sitting, and am now waiting every week for the next installments. Weeks have seldom seemed so long ;) According to the FAQ, there will be a print version of this comic as well by the end of the year.

]]> http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2008/05/sunday-relaxation-freakangels.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2008/05/sunday-relaxation-freakangels.html marcus Sun, 04 May 2008 17:56:22 +0100 Doing all the right things with robots Diesel Sweeties is fast becoming one of my favorite comic strips. They are hip, funnny and modern, and in addition the author seems to be doing all the right things.

For one, he's creative commons licensed his archive, letting me get up to date with all his old strips on our recent 11 hour plane trip to Tokyo, and now he's making it easy (and in fact encouraging readers to) embed his strips on their blogs. Way to embrace the internet, rather than fight it!

He's also making some totally rad tshirts, so go get some!. I've just ordered the Internet killed your television shirt.

]]> http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2008/03/doing-all-the-right-things-wit.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2008/03/doing-all-the-right-things-wit.html marcus Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:48:46 +0100 Slides from Yet Another Perl Conference As some of you might know, iusethis was written in Perl and Catalyst. (If you want more info on that, check out this excellent perlbuzz.com article).

Anyways, last week I was presenting a talk at Yet Another Perl Conference : Europe in Wienna, Austria. The talk was called 'Bag of tricks from iusethis.com', and it shows some of the techniques I used when building the backend for this site. I've uploaded the slides to slideshare.net, so you can look at them here:

]]> http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2007/09/slides-from-yet-another-perl-conference.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2007/09/slides-from-yet-another-perl-conference.html marcus Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:21:53 +0100 Consuming appcasts, step one Some of our more observant app admins might have noticed that we've recently added a new input box to the app add/edit screen:

iusethis mac software: Free software for the mac population

Now, this doesn't actually do anything yet, but it's going to autoupdate iusethis from Sparkle appcasts Real Soon Now[tm], so please feel free to update your app with the url to your appcast, and once we get it up and running it will Just Work :)

By the way, if you are interested in appcasting, I recommend checking out this blog post from the Appfresh guys on the subject.

]]> http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2007/08/consuming-appcasts-step-one.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2007/08/consuming-appcasts-step-one.html marcus Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:51:57 +0100 Consuming iusethis JSON data with javascript JSON is short for Javascript Object Notation, and it's a cross-language data representation standard, which also happens to be native javascript. This makes it really easy to process this data on the client side, either as a XMLHTTPRequest, or if you want to use it cross-domain, you can use a callback function and a javascript include node.

]]> http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2007/08/consuming-iusethis-json-data-with-javascript.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2007/08/consuming-iusethis-json-data-with-javascript.html marcus Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:09:02 +0100 Quick Post - Quick Links From today you have two new ways of accessing content on iusethis.

If you want to go to an app's homepage you can enter the following:
http://osx.iusethis.com/hp/appname
(e.g. http://osx.iusethis.com/hp/textmate)

If you want to download an app, you can enter the following:
(Requires the app entry to point directly to download.)
http://osx.iusethis.com/dl/appname
(e.g. http://osx.iusethis.com/dl/textmate)

*update* Keep in mind that you have to use the short appname. That means no spaces - no caps - no funny characters.

]]> http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2007/08/quick-post-quick-links.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2007/08/quick-post-quick-links.html marcus Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:04:29 +0100 Chuck Norris reads facts about himself *Video* The direct YouTube link to the video... no blog spamming.

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]]> http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2006/03/chuck-norris-reads-facts-about-himself-video.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2006/03/chuck-norris-reads-facts-about-himself-video.html marcus Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:58:44 +0100 Updates today 21/2
  • The 'beta message' system is now in order, you can now read messages from us there.
  • The tag-cloud has been updated, orange tags reflect on tags in apps that you are using.
  • You can no longer stop using apps from the frontpage, this has to be done from the 'my profile' page.
  • You can click the numbers on 'iusethis' to see the other users of the specified app.
    • ]]>     http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2006/02/updated-today-212.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2006/02/updated-today-212.html marcus Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:18:17 +0100