Well! I never knew they did a podcast. Subscribed. Now I just need to find time to listen.
Shoes 3 Policeman released!
The Shoes team has announced the Whyday release of Shoes 3.
Learn more at http://shoes.heroku.com, or download at http://shoes.heroku.com/downloads.
Never quite got round to posting this on whyday, so to save me the effort I’ll belatedly reblog from the whyday blog itself.
It’s difficult to name names without fear of missing someone out, or mis-crediting someone, but there are some names that have stuck in my head: A huge amount of credit goes to ashbb who, in my opinion, has almost single-handedly kept Shoes development going since Shoes 2. But credit also due to Steve Klabnik (of HacketyHack, which uses Shoes and so really he had no choice but to help) who built on previous efforts and got it working on OSX Snow Leopard, Cecil Coupe (for Linux expertise and wisdom), Devyn Cairns (for keeping the community going), tnobuhito for Japanese manual, Wilkie for some Vista fixes, and Martin DeMello for improving the rakefile.
One day, when all the house move has settled down (we do now have the computer out and on its own desk), I shall see if I can sort out a Shoes 3 build for OSXPPC. In the meantime though, if you follow the mailing list, thoughts are already on Shoes 4!
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More Money, More Fun by The National Archives.
No known copyright restrictions. Catalogue reference: INF 13/254
Lumen print - Pushing Daises by lost in pixels
How beautiful is that?
Blogged via permission of CC BY-NC-ND license
This is from (almost) two years ago, but is just to say farewell to what has seemed like my own personal sunset generator. I shall miss this field and the views. Especially the convenience!
On to new fields and new views from tomorrow.
"Minimise Class icons in diagrams. If enabled, then the attributes and operations compartiments will not be shown in the classes on the generated class diagrams. Note: This item is checked by default, and is overseen by many users, which are then surprised by the result."
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argouml-stats: 10.3. The File Menu
So something is enabled by default that surprises many users? That doesn’t strike me as good interface design. Anyway, thanks to a bit of googling and this forum post I figured it out.
I’ve only got a simple Java app and really didn’t want to have to install Netbeans or Eclipse just to generate a Class Diagram, so I’m glad I got ArgoUML out figured.
Currently Entertaining My Ears
I need to get my life so it’s single piece flow, but in the meantime I seem to be working in batches. And this batch is music.
School of Seven Bells - Disconnect from Desire. When something gets mentioned enough it’s worth checking out, but after first listen (It was at work and I was totally “in the zone”, so not paying full attention, trying to get some JavaScript in XSLT to work cross browser: Chrome, Firefix and IE6 - yes IE6. But Firefox gave me as much grief!) I can only say it’s ok-ish. Need to listen again. Was a bit like background music, but that could be because it was. It’s a bit - no, very - Stereolab-ish (especially on Babelonia). Which isn’t a bad thing, but I’ve not listened to Stereolab in years. Perhaps it’ll grow on me after a few more listens - if I notice it’s playing. And, also, “electronic dance-floor beats”? Where? I missed them.
Herbaliser - Herbal Tonic. Sensual Woman. Awesome. Been listening to this track for many years. Have no idea how I came across it, probably back in days of Napster, so a lovely surprise that this popped up whilst listening to this album. Made me smile. Made my day.
Chemical Brothers - Further. From Brothers Gonna Work It Out (whichever track those lyrics are actually from; that’s the first time I recall hearing the Chemical Brothers) up to Push the Button, loved it all. But that weird Salmon Dance thing really put me off. This is more of a return to form. Bit slow to get going, but skip about the first 6 minutes and it’s there - of course to be fully appreciated probably requires you to be stood in a field off your tits.
Mumford & Sons - Sign No More. Got the free track on iTunes ages ago, wasn’t that fussed. Also, bit disapponted to find out they aren’t really a “Mumford” and sons; not even related! But, have been watching Glastonbury and T in The Park on the box and The Cave is just so good to watch live - more so because the crowds just look so happy. So I love The Cave and the rest of the album is ok too. Reminds me a bit of Fleet Foxes, but much better.
Massive Attack - Heligoland - Meh, sounds just like 100th Window to me, so a bit dark and depressing.
Pendulum - Immersion - I feel a little bit wrong to be listening to these. Like I shouldn’t be allowed (Am I too old?). But I love the stuff they do with Freestylers and I remembered watching them last year (on the telly) at a festival and, much like watching Mumford & Sons, it just looked like a hell of a lot of fun. I like Waterclour, But otherwise. Not quite for me.
Audio bullies - Higher Than the Eiffel - Awesome. There’s your electronic dance floor beats. This is going to get some listens.
I’ve wanted (I think*) something like this on Windows for awhile: a client that syncs with Simplenote. I actually like the look of Simple Software Notes better (after all, simpler is better), but I can’t use it at work because it doesn’t include proxy support whereas ResophNotes does.
* I say think because I’d had Resophnotes for awhile, but hadn’t used it because I wasn’t sure I wanted any personal information synchronised on my work machine - I try to keep personal info off it as much as possible. But then I found out there was a portable version of Resophnotes so I’ve given that a whirl. But I guess then I need to think about encrypting my USB drive. And also, 15MB seems overkill for something as ‘simple’ as simplenote. So I might just return to using the web interface as a desktop app via Chrome. Oh decisions!
Magnus Holm’s email to the Hackety Hack mailing list. His email is written in Ruby so you can download and run it. Mind blown.
