A couple days ago one wise guy said me that software cannot be perfect, so it is never too early to share it. That's a good point, really.

I decided to start sharing my stuff I wrote for myself and by myself even though I'm not quite satisfied with its quality or the style or whatever else.

The first piece is a standalone File Open dialog. It's not quite my idea--I saw something similar on somebody's Mac. I can't even describe how much time this little thing saves me on such a routine operation as opening a file in the text editor. Definitely more than I spent writing it.

I'm a Komodo IDE user and I'm pretty happy with it, except the File Open dialog, which sucks. So I wrote a macro adding FilePick to Komodo IDE. I could do the same for Vim if I used it more or even (God forbid!) to Eclipse, but only if I was forced to use it.

The program is actually a tiny Python/Tkinter script. It has no dependencies except Python, of course.

Initially it shows the whole list of files in the directory specified by the command line parameter. Then you type in a few letters which makes the list shorter. Then you select the file, click Enter and that's it. It rarely takes more than 10 letters to locate a file in the project I'm working on (about 5000 files).

Grab FilePick here:
http://www.bitbucket.org/mikeivanov/filepick/src/