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Second and final progress report. I’ve uploaded my entry to the ftp site almost an hour before the deadline is up. I spent 3 or so hours last night playing with code from nehe to make an animated string of Mardi Gras beads, but didn’t get very far. It probably would have been easier to [...]

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The first rule of #macsb iron coder contest is - you do not talk about #macsb iron coder contest.

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This post discusses how to use Cocoa to communicate with Turbogears powered web-applications. The post is a follow up to my previous post that introduced my JSON Cocoa serialisation code.

The example Turbogears and Cocoa project is available from JSONTest.zip

A normal Turbogears controller method looks something like this:

    @turbogears.expose(template="jsontest.templates.test")     def test(self, name = ‘Nobody’):         return dict(greeting = ‘Hello ‘ [...]

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Luis has posted 1.0 of WebnoteHappy Lite. This is a really easy to use bookmark manager for Mac OS X. I’ve got way too many bookmarks in too many programs and WebNoteHappy can easily kick them into shape (getting rid of duplicate bookmarks in the process).

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Everyone has been posting about how cool Bare Bone’s new Yojimbo application is. But so far no one has mentioned what a really freaking cool name it has.

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I don’t editorialise very often if at all. Mainly because I’m not egotistic enough to think anybody really cares about another random blogger writing a bunch of opinionated crap. However the storm in a teacup that is brewing over the Smart Crash Reports feature built into the Sandvox beta is beginning to bug me enough [...]

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Another quick subversion script. This Python script automatically scans through a ‘ status’ report and automatically removes missing files and adds new files to your subversion repository. Of course you’ll need to commit the changes (or revert back if you made a mistake). This script is a quick and easy way of making a subversion [...]

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Both Dan Wood and Mike Zornek are missing the point when they claim that Apple needs to provide a publicly accessible API for browsing iApp (iTunes, iPhoto, etc) media files. Apple already provides us with such an API: Spotlight.

Creating a media browser window that interfaces with Spotlight is probably an afternoon’s work (in Cocoa of [...]

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John Wiseman at Lemonodor is working on a Lisp Metadata Importer plugin for Spotlight that processes Lisp source files and extracts the goodness for you to search for in Spotlight. If you’re a Lisp programmer on Mac OS X then you should check it out.

See also my Python Metadata Importer and Arcadian Vision’s importer for [...]

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