May 05, 2006
Super Happy Dev House
Saturday night, after Startup School, Josh went to this thing in Hillsborough (just south of SF) called Super Happy Dev House. It sounded like a really good time; lots of interesting people and just a fun environment to hack on something. It's apparently a monthly thing, so I think I'll have to check it out one of these times. If anyone else is interested in going, let me know.
March 27, 2005
Interview with The Wolf
There's a really good interview with Johnathan "The Wolf" Rentzsch over on Drunken Blog. It's rather long, but I highly recommend taking the time to read it. Lots of good geeky stuff including talk about mach_inject and mach_override, Web Objects, Cocoa, garbage collection, and threading. I also enjoyed this line regarding what aspects of OS X programming are overrated: "Overrated is the chick-appeal. "Hey baby, I write Mac OS X software" isn't the slam-dunk one would expect. Doesn't stop me from trying, though. I hear the iPod engineers have better luck". I was also excited to see 1985 by Bowling for Soup in his iTunes playlist.
December 11, 2003
Recent Tunes 2.0
Work continues on Recent Tunes 2.0. It's almost done though, save for some last minute bug fixing and finishing up the ReadMe. It's currently being used for the "Currently Playing" and "Recent Tunes" sections both here on my site and on Erik's site. It supports saving a file to disk, uploading to a server via ftp or ssh, and using HTTP GET to send information to a php script.
August 10, 2003
Recent Tunes Update
After packing earlier today, I spent a good amount of time working on Recent Tunes. It handles creating a file for the current tune, a file for an arbitrary number of recent tunes, and and idle message. I made a couple improvements to the status item menu. The biggest one being that selecting a song from the menu now plays the the track by database id rather than index. This fixes a problem where, say, you had a smart playlist of songs not played in the last day, once you listened to a song, it would be removed from the playlist and then Recent Tunes wouldn't be able to find it.
Hopefully tomorrow I can finish adding the code that will actually upload the files. That'll about finish up the blog integration features I wanted to add. The other main feature I want to add before releasing is reassignable global hot keys.
March 10, 2003
Woohoo!
"Congratulations, you have been selected to receive a scholarship to Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, May 18-23, 2003 in San Jose, CA!" I had a blast last year and can't wait to go again. Thankfully this year its well after school is done, so I won't miss the first 2 days because of finals like I did last year. Also, I wish I had had time to work on Recent Tunes or something else for the Student Apple Design Award.
February 28, 2003
404 Search Function
You can now type "kenshin.cwru.edu/searchterm or terms" and instead of giving you a 404 page saying whatever not found, you will be sent to a page with search results for the term, or if there was only one result, you will be sent directly to that page. Pretty spiffy, eh?
Thanks Erik for the idea and the code.
February 16, 2003
Recent Tunes
I now have whatever song iTunes is currently playing listed on the main page, as well as a link to a page with a spiffy table of the last 50 songs played. I got the idea from Erik's blog and borrowed some php code from here. I'm using Kung Tunes to get the list of songs from iTunes right now, but if I can get some free time in the near future I can integrate this functionality into Recent Tunes. Now it's time to watch the 300th Simpsons episode, hopefully it will be good.