I’ve decided that under Linux I want to use Songbird as my music player. Unfortunately at the moment the latest developer release doesn’t support the multi-media keys on my keyboard 🙁 Not to be beaten I decided to do something about it and I’ve built my first XPCOM component along with some javascript glue to […]
Author Archives: daniel
Working from Linux
I’ve been using Linux as my primary development environment in my day job for a couple of months now and for the most part I’m enjoying the change. It’s amazing that the same hardware running Linux seems to run so much faster than when running XP. Maybe I it’s just time for the semi-anual windows […]
Another reason to hate windows
Well, yesterday the task bar and start menu on my Windows dev box decided to crash. I’ve got my explorer set up to open new explorer windows in their own process, so I didn’t loose my opened windows and so loose my place in svn (as well as cvs and darcs). Ordinarily when this happens […]
TextMate and Flex 2
I’ve been having a bit of a play with Adobe’s Flex 2 command line compiler. After doing a quick search around the net I found a couple of hints for using it with TextMate. Unfortunately none of them did quite what I wanted, so I built my own. Hopefully it will be useful for others […]
before_create considered harmful
I had a fsck of a time today working with rails. Normally I love Ruby on Rails, but today it gave me the screaming shifts! I had a model class to which I wanted to add some sensible default values to satisfy some constraints in the database. The logical place for that was before_create, so […]
emoooo.com is live
I’ve just put the finishing touches on a silly little project I’ve been working on this week called emoooo.com Check it out 🙂
flvThing is released
I’ve released flvThing on the www.automagic-software.com web site. It seems to play every flv file I’ve thrown at it quite nicely 🙂 The flv files are played using the installed flash player which is hosted inside a WebView control. The application creates a tiny very stupid web server that serves up the flash files as well […]
OmniGraffle is SO cool!
I’ve been building a simple little app to play FLV files on the Mac and I should be releasing it some time over this weekend. I needed to make some icons and I threw them together in OmniGraffle Pro. Go check out www.omnigroup.com for more details.  I’ve used it a few times for this sort of […]
Blog spam and other stuff
I finally got around to cleaning up the spam on this blog. Unfortunately it looks like I zapped a couple of legitimate comments in the process however 😉 I’ve been really busy of late working and looking after the monster baby (who just recently turned 1 year old). On the train to and from work I’ve been building […]
Multiple ruby on rails applications under different folders served by Apache on Mac OS X
I’ve been doing quite a bit of development recently using Ruby on Rails under Mac OS X. Unfortunately it can be a little tricky to get rails apps deployed nicely under Apache. The machine I’m using is an aging G4 with very little RAM so running rails apps in CGI mode is very slow! Initially […]