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A Few Good Links…

Published January 31st, 2006 in Just Sayin'. 0 Comments

Just got back from a long weekend in Salt Lake City, and am wading through the deluge of email, feeds, etc. Here are a few things that I thought were particularly interesting:
25 Words That Hurt Your Resumé I’ve been thinking about job hunting and resumes quite a bit lately, so it felt apropos to run [...]

PeopleSoft Version Control

Published January 24th, 2006 in Nerdering. 3 Comments

One issue that came up at *every* client I ever worked for was version control for PeopleSoft applications. Chris Heller at Grey Sparling Solutions just did a very interesting post about this.

One of the things Chris mentions - although he doesn’t go into deep detail - is to note that PeopleSoft had a metadata-based architecture. [...]

Mugshot Update - “Where’s My 0.5??!?!?!”

Published January 22nd, 2006 in Sniper. 0 Comments

I’m working feverishly on the next update to Mugshot. I had planned to have some new features added and released weeks ago, but ended up rewriting a LOT of what I had. If you read my “Caching Thumbnails in Mugshot” posting, you know there are some parts of the early releases that I implemented [...]

Introducing the Web Inspector

Published January 17th, 2006 in Just Sayin'. 0 Comments

Very cool.
(Check it out at Surfin’ Safari.)

Subscribe to Flickr RSS in iPhoto

Published January 14th, 2006 in Just Sayin'. 0 Comments

Cool. As Frasier notes, you can subscribe to Flickr’s RSS feeds in iPhoto. This is a very cool feature, and one that I was really hoping iPhoto ‘06 had. Right now, I use NetNewsWire for most of my photo feeds, but being able to subscribe in iPhoto brings quite a few features to the table: [...]

A Tale of 3 Blogs.

Published January 12th, 2006 in Just Sayin'. 0 Comments

So, it looks like Mac users have even more options now for blogging and website creation. This posting is on WordPress. This was built with a public beta of Sandvox. And this was built with Apple’s iWeb. All are pretty different, and all are pretty cool ways to put your stuff out there.

Caching Thumbnails in Mugshot

Published January 12th, 2006 in Sniper. 6 Comments

Currently, Mugshot automatically downloads at least two sizes for every single photo that a user try to view: a thumbnail, and a square version. I say “at least”, because although it does not currently download any larger sizes by default, it soon will. (I’m adding some features - that you can disable if you want [...]

iTunes 6.0.2

Published January 10th, 2006 in Just Sayin'. 5 Comments

I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere, but the new version of iTunes displays an iTunes Music Store area *all*the*time. Larger images here and here. When I’m in my Library, it seems to display links to whatever some of the latest additions are at the store. However, it shows even when I’m in a custom playlist [...]

Dark Metal.

Published January 10th, 2006 in Just Sayin'. 0 Comments

From what I can tell from the Macworld keynote, it looks like iPhoto ‘06, iWeb, and iMovie all have the dark, sharp-corner window style that iTunes 6 has. For the time being, it looks like that’s the direction…

BSRoundedBox

Published January 6th, 2006 in Nerdering. 2 Comments

Several months ago, Matt Gemmell published source code to his RoundedBox class - a subclass of NSBox with a flatter, more stylish look. I like the look and flexibility of this class, so I started using it in Mugshot. In order to make it easier to use, I took the code, added quite a few [...]