Cocoa WebKit

I’ve been playing with the Cocoa WebKit over the last week or so and have rewritten my blogThing application to use it.  So far I’m quite pleased with the way things are coming along πŸ™‚It lets me do some very interesting things such as paste in formatted text from XCode////  DPKeychain.h//  iSpeak////  Created by Daniel …

CruiseControlRb tray icon for Linux

We installed CruiseControlRb at work recently and we’re all really enjoying it πŸ™‚ The web interface works really nicely, but I wanted more. Under Windows there is a really neat little tool called cctray which shows the status of your build in the system tray. I did a bit of searching about the net and …

Songbird and multi-media keys under Linux

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 πŸ™ 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 …

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 …

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 πŸ™‚ 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 πŸ˜‰  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 …