Andrew

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Andrew



    Age: 25

    Location:
    Oak City, OK
    About Me I am the COO for ONEsite. I manage the day to day operations of the development and production teams. I've been here since the early days of ONEsite developing ONEsite's software and strategy. I architected the .ONE platform and am thrilled with how things have progressed and where we stand. Lot's of exciting things are under way!
    Position: COO
    Favorite Projects: Chat in Interactive Media Player; Blog system; Web services architecture; Database driven presentation layer; New Widget architecture; oneSQL architecture
    Favorite Experience: Call me crazy, but I actually enjoy the grind of bringing a large project to completion. I worked an insane amount of hours during some of our earlier projects and loved every minute of it! Well, almost every minute...
    Hobbies: Programming, Reading, Eating Sushi, Bowling, Transcendental Meditation

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    On the Perfect Shell

    Thursday, January 31, 2008, 02:24 PM CST [Programming]

    I spent 90% of my time on the computer in one of three types of programs:

  • Web Browser (Firefox, Safari, IE7, etc.)
  • E-mail (Outlook or Outlook Web Access)
  • Unix Shell

    Firefox is my browser of choice. On the e-mail front it seems (unfortunately) as though nothing will ever be good enough to replace Outlook.  However, I really think there is room for a little bit of innovation in shells and ssh clients.

    On Windows I love Putty.  I tend to have a dozen Putty sessions open at any given time.  However, Putty lacks tab organization and my Windows Vista taskbar gets awfully crowded even when I have the programs stacked on top of each other.  Wintabber helps organize Putty windows but it often has odd flickering issues and Alt+Tab issues.  Putty would be damn-near perfect if it just added tabs natively.

    On OSX the Terminal is pretty darn good.  But it lacks some simple Putty features like the ability to double click on a word/line to copy it to the clipboard.  Furthermore, it lacks the ability to auto-paste upon a right-click.  Maybe I should just use the keyboard more, but just those simple Putty-like shortcuts would make the experience so much nicer.  I've yet to find a way to enable them.

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