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Re: Quotes of the Week

Geoff — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 08:53:13 -0000

Yay, a heroic return to blogging life, even if it is sporadic.

Re: The Lost Posts of 2006 Part 1

Geoff — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:02:53 -0000

give us more!!! such as how you've rectified your lack or internet

Re: The Lost Posts of 2006 Part 1

Geoff — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:21:56 -0000

ahhh, ok

sooooon though

Re: A Look Back at Uni

Geoff — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:28:18 -0000

The venus fly traps died. I miss Uni, I want to go back and do it all again. I hate this life of working.

Re: The Misadventures of my Gall Bladder

Geoff — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:53:30 -0000

I had an ultra sound once, the jelly is damn cold.

*moments silence*

Surely you could cross off more than just Fat from that list of things which give you gall bladder problems :P

Re: The Misadventures of my Gall Bladder

Geoff — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:15:59 -0000

We've had the uber-short bond villain cohort who chopped peoples heads off cause they were too tall. Surely a right-thigh stabbity villain is just what they need.

Course being female, forty and fertile you could be a hobbily bond girl.

Re: Ruby on Rails - avoiding browser timeout during long tasks

Geoff — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:35:34 -0000

Browsing around for Timeout stuff with Rails I stumbled across this.

I have been developing a project with some fairly long running processes and found BackgrounDRb to be the best solution. I'm having to do SNMP scanning which can take a while ;)

I obviously don't know your system or requirements as well as you but BackgrounDRb might well be something to look at. But that would probably require storing the reports either on the filesystem or database then when complete sending the browser to a URL which dumps the reports from either FS or DB. Or you could store the reports in an array in the BackgrounDRb worker and then just request the array or part of it somehow.

Not sure how likely it will be that I'll pop back, but feel free to email me if you want.

Have to say, using Ajax is a pretty nifty solution to this type of problem.

Re: Thoughts on Joost…

Geoff — Sun, 06 May 2007 05:13:06 -0000

I'd absolutely love it for Comedy Central to go worldwide through Joost. Very cool system though. The beeb (aka BBC) has been pretty good at picking up on new technologies, maybe they will join with Joost, or produce programming for it. Get more of the new Doctor Who out to the world :D David Tennant rocks :P

Re: Thoughts on Safari 3 for Windows…

Geoff — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:48:09 -0000

You could pass on your thoughts to the webkit team at irc://irc.freenode.org/#webkit

Re: Quick notes about Twessenger…

Geoff — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:37:37 -0000

Cool stuff. I keep meaning to give Twessenger a try but I don't use win often enough, or twitter for that matter :P

Re: Notepad++ and the Ruby Blue style…

Geoff — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:33:56 -0000

Have you tried 'e' the Windows TextMate clone?

Favourite editor is TextMate, with BitstreamVera (DejaVu basically) and the Vibrant Ink scheme. Used to be a big fan of ProFont but BitstreamVera is just nicer.

e: http://www.e-texteditor.com/
Vibrant Ink: http://encytemedia.com/blog/articles/2006/01/03...

Re: Notepad++ and the Ruby Blue style…

Geoff — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:53:48 -0000

I spend damn near every minute of everyday in TextMate staring at ruby code using Vibrant Ink

Re: How software updates should work (Part 1)…

Geoff — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:34:25 -0000

On OS X there is a popular framework called Sparkle (http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/) which a lot of apps include these days. Means a lot of applications have a really nice update system.

Its so nice to use, you setup an AppCast RSS Feed, then when the application checks for updates it looks to the AppCast feed and if there is an update it automatically downloads the file, extracts it, verifies it, optionally shows you a changelog or release notes, and gives you the option to install and relaunch or just install.

Clicking "Install & Relaunch" copies the new version to the same location as the current .app file and then relaunches it.

All in all pretty much the same as the Firefox one but any Cocoa application can make use of it.

Re: How software updates should work (Part 1)…

Geoff — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:01:22 -0000

From the perspective of "just a user" sparkle is "pretty much like firefox update" in that it automatically lets you know when an update is available, downloads the update, extracts and installs the update and relaunches the application. I've never had a broken app after a Sparkle update either.

It would be nice if it could do binary patching so you only got what you need but the other features like handling 10k client updates are probably less required as it isn't employed by applications with that kind of size though again that would be nice.

Re: How software updates should work (Part 2)…

Geoff — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:10:39 -0000

Isn't Ubuntu able to do this because it builds and packages all the apps into their own universal package repository or something?

Would be nice to have third-party software updates provided through the OS update system, myself and Jan-Willem were talking about this a while ago wrt Apple Software Update (ASU) and how cool it would be if third-party developers could register an app with ASU either on installation or directly with Apple. Then the ASU program would also check for updates to your installed third-party applications.

This would also be really good for some development houses if it was registered directly with the OS vendor as then they might be able to akamize it or something thereby taking the bandwidth loading off the developer.

PS shouldn't firefox be updating itself instead of cheating and letting something else do it

*runs*

Re: WebKit wins the Acid3 race…

Geoff — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:28:39 -0000

Now hopefully this revision of WebKit will make it into Safari and iPhone in not too much time. The downside is that even with Opera passing the "big two" Windows browsers still don't pass. Though the main parts that Acid3 tests that I might actually use is the CSS3 stuff which Firefox already supports to a fair degree. Now if only IE could catch up, and be as public about their development as the WebKit team.

Re: Tina Fey plays Sarah Palin on SNL…

Geoff — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:38:52 -0000

Awww, hulu no workee outside US :(

Re: And there was bound to be another…

Geoff — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:52:25 -0000

Thanks, that was hilarious.

Re: Twessenger: Status Update…

Geoff — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:23:11 -0000

Do you know if the API removal is an intentional change or just one they've put in place temporarily during the beta process. From their point of view if they turn off plugins in the beta they should get less reports of issues which are not under their control.

Re: Introducing ActivePresenter: The presenter library you already know.

Geoff — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:19:00 -0000

This looks much nicer than the presenter plugin I slapped together, thanks.

Re: Introducing ActivePresenter: The presenter library you already know.

Geoff — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:19:00 -0000

This looks much nicer than the presenter plugin I slapped together, thanks.