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Author Archives: Angus Hardie
Openoffice aqua looking good
I just downloaded the new aqua port of OpenOffice a few days ago and it looks good. There are some bits which aren’t finished yet, but it runs quickly, it runs natively and it runs the same as the other … Continue reading
What have I been doing recently?
Well no updates for a bit. Humm? The main things I’ve been working on: 1) SQLEditor. Lots of things are being worked on. The user interface is being rewritten to improve speed and increase flexibility, the data layer is being … Continue reading
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Tagged development, gamecube, htmlvalidator, mac, malcolmhardie-solutions, me, SQLEditor
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building antlr 2.7.7 on Mac OS X
It appears that antlr on Mac os x doesn’t like the jikes compiler, at least when I tried building antlr it gave lots of weird compile errors like this: Found 2 semantic errors compiling “ANTLRException.java”: While it would be a … Continue reading
Is it plagiarism if you’ve paid someone else to write the paper for you?
I happened to browsing a popular site that allows people to post tasks that others can bid on. The focus tends to be on small to medium sized technical tasks like web page design and small applications. But there are … Continue reading
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Java class file version numbering
http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~leif/opensource/bcver/BcVerApp.html This page has a list which shows how java class version numbers relate to java platform version numbering. It’s useful if you get one of those UnsupportedClassVersionError errors. This relates to the Java ClassFile structure which defines how classes … Continue reading
HTMLValidator 1.0b3
A new version of HTMLValidator today. I moved the validation into a separate thread to improve responsiveness. This is also the way that HTMLValidator will be doing multiple page validation. In fact the new release even includes pretty much all … Continue reading
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Google Talks: Camino
Mike Pinkerton of Google talks about the Mac web browser Camino. It also includes some interesting history of the Mozilla and Gecko projects. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6765603919277760697
Linux autologin
I use a collection of virtual machines in parallels for a number of things, like testing SQLEditor and running web apps that would otherwise require lots of software dependencies. However I’ve been getting tired of logging in to my linux … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, Writing Software
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HTMLValidator beta 2
HtmlValidator beta 2 has just been released. The new version offers assorted fixes and a slightly improved interface (a green tick or red cross now appear in the validation window!) There is also a new downloads page which currently offers … Continue reading
Mac GPRS Modem scripts
Ross Barkman’s site has scripts for using mobile phones as modems with Mac OS X. This post is mainly so I remember where it is if I ever need it and don’t have access to my bookmarks. Also the tutorial/setup … Continue reading
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Keynote in Lego!
A site called PodBrix offers customized Apple themed lego sets. You too can have Steve Jobs at a keynote or the famous Apple 1984 advert recreated in Lego. [link] (via reddit)
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HTMLValidator
HTMLValidator 1.0b1 has just been released. It runs on PowerPC or Intel Macs with Mac OS X 10.4 or later. The current version expires 28th February 2007. HTMLValidator is a new desktop HTML validator that works on both web pages … Continue reading
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Tagged cocoa, html, htmlvalidator, mac
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SQLEditor 1.3.6
SQLEditor 1.3.6 has now been available for about a week and so far it looks good. 1.3.6 was mainly released to fix bugs found in 1.3.x releases and to add in a few important features that had been widely requested. … Continue reading
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SQLEditor 1.3.4 and 1.3.5: bugs
SQLEditor 1.3.4 got released on Tuesday, but unfortunately there is a bug in this version. 🙁 The problem is that in 1.3.4 the connection presets system in the database connection panel was modified. There were a couple of fixes made, … Continue reading
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SQLEditor 1.3.2
SQLEditor 1.3.2 Release Update Continue reading
MacFuse released – userspace Mac OS X file systems
I just noticed this announcement on the google mac blog. Amit Singh has released a mac version of Fuse, which is way for people to write interesting extensions to the file system without writing kernel code. The way it works … Continue reading
SQLEditor 1.3.1
SQLEditor 1.3.1 got released on Friday afternoon, this was really just a bug fix release which fixed a handful of problems that were identified. I think the only major fix was that the new UID system was slightly broken in … Continue reading
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Tagged cocoa, mac, malcolmhardie-solutions, SQLEditor
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Insanely transparent …
You can just see Steve Jobs stroking a white cat and telling engineers to make products “insanely transparentâ€, can’t you? [link] (It’s actually an article about keyboards, but worth reading anyway)
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Writing Unit tests for Cocoa
I realized something interesting today. I use unit testing to (hopefully) improve the quality of my code. With Java I use JUnit. With native Mac stuff I use OCUnit. One really clever thing about OCUnit that I realized today is … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh, Writing Software
Tagged development, junit, mac, ocunit, unit-testing
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IP PBX delivered on an iPod?
“We have put our complete IP PBX on it [the iPod Shuffle]â€, says Dr. Harry Behrens, Managing Director of 4S newcom. “It is so compact that even on the smallest iPod Shuffle (512 MB) enough room is left for 4 … Continue reading
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