I just posted a blog entry about the open source Twitter client I’ve been working on. It’s over at Buttered Cat Blog. Hopefully some help will start trickling in.
Looking for a new name for it instead of TweetTweet, what do you all say about Tweetldum? Seems to be the liked one so far.
Glad to see the much talked about future for Sparkle is undergoing construction. The idea was to centralize the Sparkle update process, to be very similar to Apple’s own software update. This would allow you to keep much of the 3rd party software up-to-date without interruption within the applications themselves, and to easily keep them all up-to-date regardless of when you open them.
I think the big thing is actually the lack of interuption, sometimes you’re not so happy to have the sparkle software update window popping up in your face unexpected. This will be a savior for background applications like Hazel which is a pretty cool background system for organizing files.
I look forward to seeing this new iteration of Sparkle from Andy Matuschak come into fruition
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mac, macsb, programming, software, sparkle
So giving MarsEdit 2.0 a run, I’ve used ecto for a while mostly out of laziness, liking the WYSIWYG editor. It looks like MarsEdit 2 has features that make me happy, so I’m trying it out to see how it goes.
Flickr interface is pretty cool, check it out!
Spiffy, next up, blogging about Magento
So I setup Buttered Cat Software with a free design so I can start getting stuff out there, one of them being a simple utility I whipped together after a quick discussion about not wanting to hold option with someone. QuickBoot lets you choose another system to boot to, but only temporarily, rebooting after using that system will bring you back to your default system. The main purpose is just avoiding the need to hold option, including the possibility of restarting your mac and actually missing your chance to hold option.
So I’m currently working on a new site for hosting my mac software projects and wanted to include support for some popular things used by mac programs. For example many programs use Sparkle for doing automatic updates, or even Sparkle+ for tracking system information from the updating applications. So I wanted to go about making a site that would let me manage programs, their downloads, and possibly auto-generate appcasts for use by Sparkle updaters.
So I currently have quite a bit of the front-end going, no administration yet. I have a system that has products, product releases (downloads), download stats, sparkle profile tracking and appcast generation, and download stats integration for sparkle downloads. A lot of this is or will be configurable if this proves to be useful for other people to use.
It’s using a PHP MVC framework also, providing nice URls for everything, some examples:
That’s just some of the basic stuff I’ve got so far, I mostly wanted a nice way of managing various products and their downloads, I’d want purchase ability eventually too. I’ve heard there’s someone that might be working on a similar project too, mentioned on the macsb yahoo group but that’s currently not searchable due to some error.
I’d like to hear any feedback, and also see what the other projects are (only know of PotionStore as a similar rails-based project.) I’m mostly geared to build my own site right now but trying to keep in mind it might be useful for others, so any input is helpful. I hope I’m not duplicating someone else’s work, but maybe can work together if there’s similar goals, if anybody knows the post, or maybe if yahoo starts working again soon can see what’s up.
Email me at jerome AT jeremyknope DOT com to talk about it if interested or if you’re working on something similar and want to discuss it.
So I tried Google Desktop for Mac that was just recently released, beta of course. It’s not too bad, didn’t take seriously long to index either. Not sure it’s any faster than Spotlight. I didn’t really like the lack of grouping that I like in Spotlight results, mail messages grouped together etc. The double-tap-command shortcut is an interesting idea too, and it worked quite well and was kinda cool to browse results in the web page view with pagination. Though when in that view it would open various things within the browser it seems, or at least mail messages, actually not sure about other files. Of course not surprising since the browser probably will open whatever it deems appropriate since it’s just another web page really. I ended up uninstalling it just because it didn’t quite jive with me, I’m not a huge Spotlight use but I still prefer it.
I don’t know if the cause of this extreme increase in memory consumption is from trying out Google Desktop for Mac or not, but I’ve never seen mds at the top of the list of memory usage before, usually it’s OmniWeb after a few days. Anyway, I only made the connection to Google Desktop due to the fact that it uses some spotlight related stuff, like the privacy list and the importers I believe. So since I recently was playing with it I thought there might be a connection. I found one other person noticed same exact thing and they had installed Google Desktop.
This is easy to fix though, and unfortunately I already uninstalled Google Desktop to verify if it climbs up from use at all, just choosing quit process in Activity Monitor does the trick, no need to choose Force Quit. It will come back right after with consumption of probably < 5MB.
I’d recommend trying it out for anybody interested, you might want to check your mds process after though and give it a swift quit to get it’s memory usage down again though after. That is if you notice this happen at all and if it’s at all connected to Google Desktop.
So I recently ran across SitePoint Blogs ยป wxDebug when searching for information about what people use to read the cachegrind outputs from Xdebug profiling. This is promissing since it’s a start of a GUI that runs on anything Python/wx runs on which is almost everything, including OS X. I’d like something similar to KCacheGrind but that might be a while before something like that would be available on OS X, maybe if wxDebug gets developed further. So my attempts to run it on OS X failed at first, but that seemed to be due to the bundled python & wxPython in OS X are old. Upgrading to Python 2.5 and latest wxPython resulted in it running and processing files at the least.
So processing a file doesn’t yield in much happening on screen, but hey, maybe it’s easy to resolve. At least it runs, and the analyzer seems ok so far. I’ll have to look into it further sometime.
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I was having a improve-my-TextMate-experience moment and along with making some small snippets to help smooth my coding when using TextMate, I also went thru TextMate’s PHP bundle and applied my preferred formatting to all the snippets in it. It has formatting for conditionals like so:
if(conditional) {
// code
}
else {
}
and require/include sans () (like PEAR standards):
require_once ‘filename.php’;
and some other various cleanups like the random occurrence of # comments and extra tabs & spaces where they shouldn’t be, or at least I don’t think they should be.
So if you have similar coding style, check it out see if it’s an anal enough style for you or not.
“Download Jerome’s Anal PHP TMBundle”:http://jeremyknope.com/files/PHP-tmbundle.zip
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Apparently if enough blogs link to “MacZOT!”:http://maczot.com it will make their latest AppZapper free. It seems like a handy little utility to help clean out files that apps leave around. So according to “their post”:http://maczot.com/discuss/?p=35 it’ll be free if 359 blogs link to it. So why not, I’d use it if it was free. 
Ok so I’m not as bothered by the MacBook Pro after getting my Powerbook only a couple months ago, because it appears the MacBook Pro is lacking a few things. Some things you can get by buying an accessory.
So I don’t feel as bad for having a outdated-in-3-months Powerbook anymore. They seem to have left some things out. We’ll see how they are with issues too later on, since first revisions can sometimes be rocky.