Archive for the 'Red Sweater News' Category

Universal Appeal

Friday, January 27th, 2006

Today I’m posting two updates: a minor revision to FastScripts, and a major version upgrade to Clarion. In addition to more tangible features, both FastScripts and Clarion are now Universal – tested on a Core Duo iMac. To Apple’s credit, I spent more time getting to the iMac (I don’t own one yet – waiting […]

FlexTime 1.0 Beta

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Perhaps my New-Years resolution has been to tie up loose ends in the personal coding projects department. Having recently finished an update to FastScripts, and putting Clarion 2.0 in the “beta cooker” for a little while, I turned my attentions to a little piece of work I use specifically for practicing yoga, but which should […]

Death-Diffying Moves

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

One of the aspects of being a professional software developer that is a real grind is the tedious, careful double-checking we must do in order to reduce the odds that our work will lead to some major metropolitan area bursting into flames. Double-checking means diffing. Diffing is hard. Even with somewhat friendly tools at our […]

Clarion 2.0 Beta

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

My oft-neglected utility for mastering musical intervals, Clarion, received a bit of renewed attention recently. I have been planning a fairly major revision to this application for more than a year, but various other responsibilities have repeatedly put it on the back burner. Motivated in part by a desire to show off the spiffy new […]