You’d think that a rather uncommon last name like “Wight” would be a relatively easy name for others to spell correctly. It is uncommon enough that I’ve never met any other Wights outside of “my family“. And yet people seem to have trouble with it. People seem to think that it should be spelled more [...]
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What’s in a name?
November 22nd, 2007 · Comments · Default
R.I.P Toxic Progress Indicator
October 30th, 2007 · Comments · Default
Thanks to Matt Gemmell for pointing out that Apple has finally provided a pie chart style NSProgressIndicator for the circular/determinate modes. This style is new to Leopard. This means my Toxic Progress Indicator class can be retired, at least for 10.5+ only applications. Leopard has really helped to retire a lot of my code (for [...]
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Ironcoder NEEDS You!
October 16th, 2007 · Comments · Default
Ask not what Ironcoder can do for you…
SpaceNavigator controlled Lego Mindstorms NXT
September 26th, 2007 · Comments · Default
It’s my second year of coaching a First Lego League team. The experience has been fantastic, I’m teaching 4th and 5th grade children about robots and computers, and teaching them to build and program their own robots. This year the kids are going to be learning how to use the new Lego Mindstorms NXT robot; [...]
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The Intersection of Cool and Awesome
September 25th, 2007 · Comments · Default
3Dconnexion (a division of Logitech) produces the coolest named device ever: The 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator . This is a 3D input device with 6 degrees of freedom, meaning you can move and rotate it through the X, Y and Z planes. I bought it originally on a whim (hey only 50 bucks!) for use with Google Sketchup [...]
Tags:3Dconnexion·Acorn·Cocoa·Flying Meat·Source Code·SpaceNavigator
I am not spamming you!
August 14th, 2007 · Comments · Default
It looks like spammers are using fake email addresses at the toxicsoftware.com domain as a return address for their vile spam.
Toxicsoftware is not spamming you, we’re just as much a victim of this as the recipients of the spam. In fact the toxicsoftware catchall email account has received over 6000 bounced emails in the last [...]
Subversion Moved
August 4th, 2007 · Comments · Default
I’ve had a lot of emails asking where the subversion repository has gone.
The simple answer is I’ve stopped hosting my public subversion repository on DreamHost and have now created a Google Project for it. The project URL is:
http://code.google.com/p/toxic-public/
And the subversion root is here:
http://toxic-public.googlecode.com//
Google will be a lot more reliable than DreamHost ever will be. I [...]
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View man pages in Xcode script
July 28th, 2007 · Comments · Default
I really ought to start blogging again..
So here’s a quick and simple shell script to open Man pages in Xcode. I’ve been using the very nice “manopen” utility to view man pages in a GUI application. But that tool is having difficulties with a certain new big cat. So I was looking for a replacement [...]
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WWDC 2007
June 8th, 2007 · Comments · Default
Adding to the plethora of WWDC 2007 blog postings and ending my posting drought. Leaving for WWDC this weekend. Should be an interesting WWDC and am looking forward to finding out what’s new with 10.5.
See you there.
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Tiilt! Source Code
January 25th, 2007 · Comments · Default
Source code for Tiilt! is now up on my public server. Grab it while it’s hot.
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