A notice for anyone using BatteryInfo on Mac OS 1.5.8 or higher. With the 10.5.8 release, Apple made a change which broke the way this widget gathers data causing it to look empty while actually fully charged:
You can download a fixed version (v1.5.1) from the BatteryInfo page. It also includes a Japanese translation by Takeshi Sagara.
Read MoreJust a quick note regarding Base and using non-English characters in SQL queries. Base defaults to using the font Courier in the custom SQL and log views. This font doesn’t seem to support a very wide range of international glyphs, so text like ‘Αθήνα’ 1 simply doesn’t appear in the text fields!
Read MoreBase 1.3.2 has just been released. This is only a small bugfix update, so no new features. The changes are as follows:
Base 1.3 has just been released. You can download it from it’s product page or view the release notes.
The main focus of this release is table schema editing. As SQLite does not natively have the ability to alter table schemas, it is a multi-step process (create new table, copy old data across, delete the old table) and I’m very pleased to finally have such an important feature in the app.
Read MoreUpdate 2009-05-31 PayPal have now restored access to payment processing. All should hopefully be normal now.
It’s good that they do check people out. Their system as a whole would collapse without a decent level of scrutiny. However in my case, I don’t feel they’ve applied much common sense to the matter. Example:
Read MoreUpdate 2009-05-31 Thank you to everyone who has contacted me. I’ve got enough testers for now, but will post again next time more are needed.
This release is focused on editing table schemas, so ideally testers should be willing to:
Read MoreI’m very happy to announce that our first foray into iPhone development has been released. Jezz is a game for the iPhone and iPod Touch, closely based on the old game of Jezzball. To complete each level, you must claim 70% of the playing field by building walls. If a wall in progress is hit by a ball, the wall is destroyed and you lose a life. Each level becomes more difficult through adding more and destructive balls.
Read MoreWell, Base 1.2 has been out for just over a week now, so I figured it’s time for an update.
So far, the app seems to have had a pretty good reception. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to contact me with feedback (especially those who have sent detailed bug reports). For the most part, complaints and requests have centered around one area: the editing of existing tables.
Read MoreNow that the Christmas / new year festivities are out of the way it’s time for an update on how Base development is coming along. The next release - version 1.2 - will have some useful changes being made, though there isn’t a predicted release date yet. The three things I’d like to pick up on are:
Read MoreThere have been some pretty heavy changes to this site in the last couple of days. Hopefully they shouldn’t actually be very visible. The biggest change has been installing Wordpress to power this blog.
The original blog was self-made using Ruby on Rails and was a very simple affair that started accumulating huge amounts of comment spam and was lacking some features I wanted (namely file uploading and easy archive browsing). Integrating Wordpress (a php-based system) with my Rails site was not actually that difficult. For those who are considering doing this, you will just need a mod_rewrite rule to redirect /blog/ to the Wordpress index.php file. The tricky part was realising that Dreamhost disable mod_rewrite when you use Passenger to power Rails as poorly crafted rewrite rules can break Passenger. However they are very helpful and will enable it for you after explaining what not to do.