Brent Simmons makes some excellent points in his latest post - and he got me thinking. I like his recommendations about Notifications and KVO, and when to use them. What he says about Notifications is right on:
It’s difficult, when doing research, to know what’s going to happen when I encounter a notification-send… Another thing I [...]
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This is a very minor update that only fixes the hang-on-launch that people were seeing in the previous version. Sniper was hanging because it was finding a tag in the contacts list which it didn’t expect. That should be fixed now - so if Sniper wouldn’t launch for you, try this latest build.
I can’t personally [...]
At long last, I’ve updated MUPhotoView to version 1.2. This version incorporates several changes from a coworker - Cameron Esfehani - to update the selection behavior to be more like iPhoto.
But that’s not all! I made several other additions and fixes:
Fixed a bug where the view would either stop drawing permanently, or would not draw [...]
This release of Sniper (previously known as Mugshot) is simply a rename of the application and an update to all the text and graphics that used the previous name. There are no other bug fixes or changes to the application.
If you find any references to “Mugshot” in the application, please let me know: feedback@blakeseely.com
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I haven’t finished the main features I planned for 0.6, but there are enough bug fixes to warrant publishing an interim release.
New Features:
Includes Andy Matsuchak’s Sparkle software update system.
Uses the newest MUPhotoView for the thumbnail area - which provides speed improvements and bug fixes in several areas.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed 12 different memory leaks.
The “Quit” button on [...]
I listened to your feedback, and made the most requested improvements in this version - without changing much of what you, as a developer, will need to implement in order to use MUPhotoView. Here’s a list of what’s new:
Photo Removal Support: Whether you implement MUPhotoView via bindings or via delegate, the new photo removal methods [...]
You may already know that Flickr provides RSS and Atom feeds for every user’s photo stream. (There a link at the bottom of each user’s main photo page - here’s my page and a link to my RSS feed.) But what you may not know is that Flickr supports output in quite a few formats [...]
There’s only one change in this update: the parser now skips any characters before the first object definition. For example, Flickr wraps their JSON object definitions in “jsonFlickrFeed()”. This parser will now skip the “jsonFlickrFeed(” and correctly pick up the object definition.
Click here to download the latest version.