Archive for April, 2007

• 04.29.07 From Milwaukee with Love posted in General

  I slept really well on a futon last night. It’s fun being in a house with an open wireless connection, although I went and forgot the power supply for my MacBook, so this will be short lived. My friend paul shared this with me, though, so if you haven’t seen it, it’s worth a look. Go to maps.google.com and get directions, and type in New York to London. Read the instructions carefully. The map makes it pretty obvious.

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• 04.28.07 FlickrMate 1.6: Image Uploading posted in Geekery

  Okay, last FlickrMate release until I’ve written about something else. I’m going to do a short series on TextMate’s tm_dialog and creating custom nibs. All the information you need is out there, it’s just really scattered and half of it is in mailing list archives. I’m going to pull it together into one reference that should make things a little easier, especially for people who aren’t used to Interface Builder (like me). Anyway, FlickrMate 1.6…

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• 04.27.07 FlickrMate 1.5: Tag Search posted in Geekery

  Okay, new version on the download page. I honestly think the releases will slow down now, assuming I didn’t introduce a slew of new bugs with this one. 1.5 adds tag searching with a token based input, and every search dialog now has an “everybody” option that lets you search outside of your own photos and into the great big world of Flickr. How useful that will be I’m not sure, but it was easy to add the option, so I did. The tag searching allows “any” or “all” matches, and search results are ordered by relevance and the first 250 are returned. That’s a lot when you’re going through an image browser that shows one at a time ;).

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• 04.26.07 FlickrMate 1.4: New and Improved posted in Geekery

  Version 1.4 of FlickrMate brings a whole new method of handling very large collections, and faster browsing to boot. People with massive flickr accounts, rejoice! Visit the download page to grab the new version.

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• 04.26.07 A Belated Thank You posted in Geekery

  I’ve sadly neglected to give credit to Todd Ditchendorf for his help with FlickrMate. Todd, author of the tremendous BlogMate bundle, has been an extremely gracious debugger and supporter of FlickrMate from the first release. So thanks, Todd, for all the help, past, present and future. It’s greatly appreciated.

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• 04.25.07 FlickrMate Update 1.3 posted in Geekery

  Yet another version of FlickrMate is being posted this evening. We’re up to 1.3. I’m having a little trouble getting things working on everybody else’s systems. Different versions of Ruby, different types of Flickr accounts, lots of variables. I’ve stripped a couple of the more complex facets of the bundle and got it back to basics. Back to it’s extremely useful basics, that is ;). The image in this post was placed by the bundle, so it works for me… visit the Download Page.

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• 04.25.07 FlickrMate Bugfixes posted in Geekery

  Just a few bugfixes for the 1.0 release of FlickrMate. Just when I thought I had it all smoothed out… see the download page for version 1.1 and comment here if you find any more bugs. Thanks in advance!

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• 04.24.07 FlickrMate 1.0 posted in Geekery

  Okay, FlickrMate turns 1 today! All new interface, tidied up and a whole new feature set. Well, pretty new. See the download page for the download and details of the release!

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• 04.23.07 A Few Thoughts on Coda posted in Web Design

  I seem to be the only one not thinking of switching my entire web development platform to Coda. I’m not saying it couldn’t ever happen, but in my last 2 hours of experimenting I’ve been suffering from Dreamweaver flashbacks.

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• 04.23.07 CSSEdit 2.5 posted in Web Design

  As a beta tester for CSSEdit 2.5, I can tell you that the new features are awesome and SO many little bugs have been fixed. First, the much talked about tabs were added. Then we got the ability to see what styles in the sheet were affecting a selector in X-Ray. Then we could click the style and jump right to it in the stylesheet. Faster image updates and less choking on Javascript in the previews. And most importantly (to me), command-return now functions as expected in all situations! Read more about it at the MacRabbit site.

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