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I’ve just uploaded version 1.0.1 of Python Metadata Importer.

From the documentation:

Fixes problem importing function names. All metadata attributes now added to the list of visible attributes (which means you should now see them in a Finder Get Info window). Entire file source code added to kMDItemTextContent attribute (just like Apple’s Source Code importer seems to do). Slight updates [...]

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James Duncan Davidson has a good article on how to get the subversion source control system installed using DarwinPorts. I’ve been using subversion for quite some time via DarwinPorts but haven’t yet installed it for use with Apache2 (prefering the +ssh access method) although Jame’s article has inspired me to give it a try (one [...]

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I’ve upgraded to ExpressionEngine 1.2.1. A few minor hiccups (mostly my fault) but this was the smoothest upgrade so far. Hopefully though they’ll make it smoother in the future by automating more of it.

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This sample code can (hopefully) be used by any application presenting a change password dialog to the user. Different dialogs allow the user to enter a new password or change a previously entered password. Dialogs can be presented as either standalone modal windows or sheets. Furthermore the user is informed of any problems or weaknesses [...]

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I’m stuck at Philadelphia airport on the way to South Carolina for Thanksgiving. Luckily there’s an AT&T wireless hotspot here to keep me sane. There are a whole bunch of other Mac users here sharing various services over Rendezvous - iTunes, iChat of course. It’s like a mini meta-Macintosh User Group. If you don’t want [...]

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Cocoa source code showing how to use a QuickTime Sequence Grabber (e.g. an iSight camera) from your Cocoa application.

Update. I’ve uploaded a new version of the SequenceGrabber source code that should compile cleanly on any Mac OS X 10.3 machine. Thanks to “jlecuyer” for pointing out the original version was broken.

Update: Information on new version [...]

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This will go down as one of those posts that I won’t want future employers to ever see…

Janie Porche, yes thatJanie Porche is blogging.

It turns out that she is a very talented singer too.

It doesn’t help me answer this question though: Janie Porche or Morgan Webb?

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iCalToRSS; is a set of Python scripts I wrote for retrieving iCa events and TODO items and displaying them as RSS newsfeeds inside ;NetNewsWire 2.

I wrote the Python code to parse the iCal calendar files (which are standard RFC2425 Mime-Dir files) and then I use PyRSS2Gen to output the events as RSS news items. Finally [...]

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I’ve just uploaded some Cocoa source code showing how to make NSWindows ’snap’ to other windows and to the edges of the screen. You can configure what edges a window will snap to and the threshold distance of the snapping. I hope someone finds it useful. Comments welcome.

SnappingWindows.tar.gz

Code is now on the toxicsoftware subversion server: [...]

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OmniWeb5.1b1 fixes the problems with rendering my blog. It also adds full tabbing between form elements. Wonderful.

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