I've been using JEdit for a while now, and am constantly amazed at how complete it is. It's even got a plug-in to manage XSLT transformations... Not as elegant as I'd usually like, but the integration into a kick-ass editor more than makes up for it.

WIth the addition of the Project Manager plugin, it's pretty full-featured, and the somewhat sluggish Java UI is still very usable (even on a pokey TiBook 400! (one aside on the Project Manager plugin - it seems to require Java 1.4.1 to install, but if you run JEdit once under the 1.4.1 prerelease, you can install the plugin and it still works under 1.3.1...

I'm working on a simple java application to manage transformations using XSLT via Xalan-J. Not sure if I'll use Cocoa-Java or SWING. Don't care a lot about cross-platformability, since it really only has to work on my machine...

I don't have a lot of experience with SWING (did a simple app a couple of years ago), and have no experience with Cocoa, so I'm kinda ambivalent (although having an excuse to learn Cocoa would be cool, I'm not sure I have the time to take that on). Since I have a brain-dead-simple command line Java app working already, I might just do it in SWING.

I know this is on the Blapp homepage - there's even a screenshot of it working - but I never tried it out until now.

Dang, that Links window is cool! It scans all blog entries for hrefs, then presents a simple interface to list and search them, so you can reuse previous links. Well done. Dragging an item from the Links window into a new blog entry even generates the appropriate HTML element. Slick.

I've been using Blapp for a while now to manage the entries for this blog. It's pretty cool, and I just saw that Michael McCracken now has a badge for his cool software.

Anyhoo, here's credit where it's due:

It's good to see that Michael plans on continuing development of Blapp, even though NetNewsWire Pro will have integrated blog edting. I like Blapp, it's a neat little program. Could use some tweaks, but it's not bad at all. Oh, and it's free, which is a Good Thing.

I've just "upgraded" to Blosxom 1.0, and it was (of course) a smooth process.

Congrats, Rael, on hitting the mythical 1.0!

I finally figured out where to modify blosxom.cgi so that it doesn't render the entire freaking blog with each static rendering of the site... Easy change in line 167, to remove the first condition (if dynamic, pay attention to the entry count limit) - after removing that condition, all pages will obey the entry count limit.

Looks like it's working properly now. Not sure why it was acting up before, but it looks like Operator Error (code ID 10 T, most likely).

Thanks to Rael for double-checking my copy of the blosxom.cgi file, to rule out any kind of serious problem.

I've now limited the number of entries on each page to 15, so it's not a 50K hit each time. There's also a category index on the left side now, as well as indices for each category (just change the index.html URL to index.index, and you'll get a list of entries).

This is just my take on it, but I've just about had my fill of the "Apple is Evil" rants regarding their actions toward the developer of iCommune.

It seems like a clear-cut case: iCommune violates the device-plug-in-API license agreement. It has NOTHING to do with what iCommune does. Apple isn't saying "you can't do that", they're saying "you can't do that with _that_ API".

They have a history of doing this kind of thing especially around APIs that are either half-baked (i.e., incomplete, not half-assed), or on the way out (planned deprecation), or about to be superceded by something better.

Just grabbed the latest beta of NNWP (beta 12), and it has better support for my Blosxom blog. It looks like it's still a little incomplete - only sees one level of the folder hierarchy - but that's definitely a step forward, since it didn't see any folders before...

I've been thinking about the whole "I need tabs in Safari" issue, and have come to realize that no, in fact, I don't need tabs in Safari.

What I need is a way to manage multiple open web pages in a single window. Tabs are only one implementation of this. And they tend not to scale well (open 15 pages as tabs in Chimera to see what I mean).

What would work is some way to list any number of pages associated with a single window. Something like the Bookmarks mode in Safari is a good start. It makes it easy to list pages, but it's modal.

I just stumbled across this little gem...

If you have pages in your bookmarks bar in Safari, hit Command+1 to open the first one, Command+2 to open the second, etc...

My bookmarks bar is mostly full of folders, but there are a couple of pages, and the Command+# maps to their non-folder order from the left side

Quite cool. Wonder what other goodness is hiding in there... Already have mouse gesturing thanks to Cocoa Gestures. Slick.

I was just asked for some online resources for a Windows admin getting into MacOSX. Here's what I came up with:

On a MacOSX Box:

just hit Command+? (or go to the help menu)

On the web:

• Apple's MacOSX Site
• Apple's Switch Site
• Dive Into OSX
• Apple's UNIX-based Apple seminar
• Orielly's MacDevCenter MacForUNIX Page
• Apple's Intro to Security on MacOSX
• MacOSXLabs: Deploying MacOSX in a Higher Ed Setting
• Ars Technica's Review of MacOSX
• MacOSXHints: Good tips for the MacOSX User/Admin/Developer
• Stepwise: Mostly for the developer, but good links for users.
• MacOSXHints: Good tips for the MacOSX User/Admin/Developer
• Ken Bereskin's Weblog (Ken is Apple's Product Manager for MacOSX)

I'll add any others that I come across.

Just came across Strike Force, linked from MacUpdate.com.

Holy crap. That's one complete mod for Unreal Tournament. I've tried it for a couple of minutes, and it looks even better than UT:Infiltration (which is a pain in the #SS to get running on OSX, but Strike Force just plain worked).

Links:

• Strike Force
• Stuff to get it working on MacOSX