Author Archives: Angus Hardie

SQLEditor Progress

It’s been a little while since I wrote about the release of SQLEditor so it’s time to write about what’s been happening with SQLEditor since then. SQLEditor 1.4.1.b2 (available now) There is a new bug fix release of SQLEditor available … Continue reading

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SQLEditor 1.4 Final Released

In case you missed it version 1.4 of SQLEditor was released back on July 8th. If you’re using 1.3.9 you might like to consider upgrading. The 1.3.9 upgrade system will be set soon to recommend this upgrade (though 1.3.9 doesn’t … Continue reading

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Virtualized Mac OS X servers

Media Temple are running a beta programme for virtualized Mac OS X server hosting (Using Parallels Server) This sounds really interesting, it would be nice to be able to rent a Mac OS X box and run services on it. … Continue reading

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SQLEditor 1.4b26

SQLEditor 1.4b26 is now available for download. It fixes only one problem which is related to auto increment and SQLite. This should hopefully be the final beta version for 1.4 🙂 The next version should be the 1.4 final release … Continue reading

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SQLEditor 1.5

SQLEditor 1.5 is making good progress. The latest thing that I’m currently working on is to extract SQL Views from a database. In theory this should be just like extracting tables, but it’s looking much harder to work out than … Continue reading

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Water found on Mars

They spotted water on Mars! Colonising now seems a step closer … MarsPhoenix Twitter (via Boing Boing)

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Reggy for regular expression testing

Handy new tool I came across today which allows you to test regular expressions and see what they select. Reggy

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280 Slides

A cool new online presentation tool: http://280slides.com/Editor/ The slide show application is really nice in that it feels very much like a desktop application when in use, even down the way buttons and key presses behave. The object rotation is … Continue reading

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Film Release Schedule

Because I can never remember where this list is kept: UK Film Distributors’ Association Film Release Schedule

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Scripts in XCode

The build system for SQLEditor has lots of steps, from building each of the component frameworks, compiling the application, assembling the bundle, creating a disk image and then uploading everything to the server. (Plus things like version histories and read … Continue reading

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The inspiration for star wars?

George Lucas in Love A parody on the origins of the star wars story…

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Engineers without borders

Wired has an interesting article about Engineers without borders, a group that is trying to develop cheap technology solutions for developing parts of the world. The latest idea is a low cost wind turbine to generate electricity for lighting. Best … Continue reading

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Flash CS3 – Trace not producing output?

Found an odd problem with Flash CS3 today. I was working away and I realised that I wasn’t getting anything in the output window from calls to trace(). Just a completely empty output panel. The answer is simple, make sure … Continue reading

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Chocolate Russian Roulette

I happened to come across this: Chocolate Russian Roulette [cybercandy uk] You get a tray with 12 pieces of chocolate. 11 of them are praline filled milk chocolate bullets, the 12 contains a real chilli pepper.

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Handy database of recommended Mac Apps

Johan Basberg (who designed the beautiful SQLEditor icon) has a handy list of recommended mac applications at http://dittverk.no/mac/files/tag-editor.php And SQLEditor is on this list 🙂

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ACID3 tests

Work started on the new acid test almost as soon as the IE developer team posted notification that IE8 passes Acid2 🙂 Well, if you read the article and comments, it’s not perfectly correct. But it’s kind of funny as … Continue reading

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ACM computer science key works

The ACM is offering free downloads of selected classic works of computer science to anyone who signs up. http://www.acm.org/classics  (via  Lambda The Ultimate and Dusty Decks)

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Windows XP Services descriptions

Since it wasn’t obvious to me where this document was, here is a link to a Microsoft page describing Windows XP services with descriptions. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/guidance/serversecurity/tcg/tcgch07n.mspx There is also a similar document for Windows 2000 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742605.aspx

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Brushy the Talking Airbrush

Interesting blog post talking about how Adobe plans to improve Photoshop, which is obviously an application with a large number of very committed users. John Nack is talking about task orientated user interfaces, which in theory is what Microsoft was … Continue reading

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Concept car with robot on dashboard!

This looks really cool: IT World: Nissan adds a robot helper to its concept car It’s a concept electric car which has a small robot on the dashboard that offers directions and tries to keep the driver cheerful.

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