Since I use Excel VBA way too often, I found I needed the String.Format() function from .NET. I looked around the internet for one but only found a limited version on EliasZone (String.Format Equivalent for VBA). The limits weren't that bad, only five replacement arguments, it was more the thought of having to make changes if I suddenly needed more. Thus, I put together my own version.
As of the first revision, it has only been tested on exactly what I needed it for, it includes very little error handling, and could do with some love. Therefore you should feel free to fork and update as needed.
Usage:
StringFormat( _
"If I had a {0} dollars, I would buy you a {1}. I know you always wanted a {1}!", _
"million", _
"monkey" _
)
The script:
I've been wanting to try out a standup desk for a little while now so when I happened to be running early for work today, I decided to throw one together to fill up my time. Thus, the standup desk prototype was born.
As you can see, it's not the most beautiful thing in the world but it functions fairly well. I've spent 80% of my day standing without any problems except sore feet. I found that I was able to concentrate in my meetings much better and it was easy to grab a couple weights and swing those around for a bit. Unfortunately my day hasn't included any programming so I'm not sure how effective I will be yet.
The change I need to make most to the prototype is keyboard height. For me, that is definitely a game changer. At first I was using the keyboard at the height of the first drawer, about six or seven inches lower, and I found it very uncomfortable. At its current height, I've found the keyboard to be pretty close but a little too high so I touchtype but with fewer fingers.
All in all, for a day that has been filled with meetings and creating slide decks, I think this has been the first time that I haven't nearly fallen asleep. I would suggest that if you have some time and a bit of styrofoam you put a prototype together.
I was in a programming rut recently and my manager suggested I write a program that counts to ten for a quick win. I was rather insulted because writing some script to count to ten isn't terribly difficult and wouldn't make me feel much better. Then I took a step back, put some thought into the idea, and then decided to learn Brainfuck and write a script that would count to ten.
It turns out Brainfuck is pretty easy to pick-up. I learned the language and wrote my script over my 30 minute lunch break!
I was pretty hungry afterwards.
The Code
The code is fairly simple. There are some variables (cells 3, 4, and 5) and a couple loops. I commented the code and spaced it out to make it a bit easier to read.
While I was looking for a code highlighting library, for this site, I came across a post on the highlight.js project page where the author was excited that someone had ported the Solarized theme to the project. Out of interest I decided to see what Solarized was about and I fell in love. The colours seemed to fit really well and the screenshots of Python code looked excellent. Unfortunately, there was no StyleScheme for Gedit so I decided to set about creating one.
And now here we are. :)
Light theme
Dark theme
Both screenshots are using the Ubuntu Mono font at size 13
It’s still a work in progress but if you’d like to help you can clone the git repository at
git clone https://github.com/mattcan/solarized-gedit.git
I plan to forwarded this to Ethan Schoonover to see if it gets included in the main repo as a git-subtree.
UPDATE
My code was submoduled into the official repo so you can download from me above or from the official repo.
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