Archive for January, 2003

Wow. That was easy. (of course). Not having a digital video cam, I brought in a bunch of photos from iPhoto, and a track from iMovie, and used the famous Ken Burns Effect to make a slide show. Went pretty easily. MUCH faster than the old way I used to do this. Several years ago... »

The IMS just bumped the DRI spec to 1.0. That's a good thing, as it will impact how the various repository projects will be able to communicate with one another. This will have some immediate benefits for the EduSource Canada project, which is in the midst of building its communication API. Links: IMS DRI Specification CETIS... »

Woohoo! I just got an XSLT prototype working that will let me re-implement theming in our repository application! My goal was to produce a solution that would allow (some of) our users to completely customize the interface of our WebObjects application, in a way that simply mucking about with the .html part of a WOComponent... »

I've been using JEdit for a while now, and am constantly amazed at how complete it is. It's even got a plug-in to manage XSLT transformations... Not as elegant as I'd usually like, but the integration into a kick-ass editor more than makes up for it. WIth the addition of the Project Manager plugin,... »

I'm working on a simple java application to manage transformations using XSLT via Xalan-J. Not sure if I'll use Cocoa-Java or SWING. Don't care a lot about cross-platformability, since it really only has to work on my machine... I don't have a lot of experience with SWING (did a simple app a couple of... »

I know this is on the Blapp homepage - there's even a screenshot of it working - but I never tried it out until now. Dang, that Links window is cool! It scans all blog entries for hrefs, then presents a simple interface to list and search them, so you can reuse previous links.... »

I've been using Blapp for a while now to manage the entries for this blog. It's pretty cool, and I just saw that Michael McCracken now has a badge for his cool software. Anyhoo, here's credit where it's due: It's good to see that Michael plans on continuing development of Blapp, even though NetNewsWire Pro... »

I've just "upgraded" to Blosxom 1.0, and it was (of course) a smooth process. Congrats, Rael, on hitting the mythical 1.0! I finally figured out where to modify blosxom.cgi so that it doesn't render the entire freaking blog with each static rendering of the site... Easy change in line 167, to remove the first condition (if... »

Looks like it's working properly now. Not sure why it was acting up before, but it looks like Operator Error (code ID 10 T, most likely). Thanks to Rael for double-checking my copy of the blosxom.cgi file, to rule out any kind of serious problem. I've now limited the number of entries on each page to... »

This is just my take on it, but I've just about had my fill of the "Apple is Evil" rants regarding their actions toward the developer of iCommune. It seems like a clear-cut case: iCommune violates the device-plug-in-API license agreement. It has NOTHING to do with what iCommune does. Apple isn't saying "you can't do... »