Monkinetic Weblog

Dave says:

On the other hand can you imagine me with a job? I'm thinking, can you imagine Dave with a BOSS?

Jodi and I taped the premiere of CSI:Miami - we're watching it now. Kinda different from the original - in a cool way. Nice touch - the theme song of this CSI is also by The Who. -)

One thing I really need is an icon for Sid. If you're a designer with a generous streak, let me know. -) Right now it has a generic icon:

I've already forgotten where I found this, but iCalShare.com is a clearing house for iCal calendars you can subscribe to. One of interest I found was the Arizona Mac User's Group (AMUG - calendar here).

Details here.

It's weird, on these nights when I keep coding after Jodi goes off to bed, I can't seem to leave off working until around 3 am. I'm likely to feel like crap tomorrow, and I'll have no one but myself to blame. Bleagh.

Well, it's been a long road, but the next version of Sid is going to go alpha soon. I can't believe it, myself. After being out of work for several months now I finally decided to get myself back into some Cocoa development - Sid being a priority.

I've started a new weblog on this site for posts relating to software I'm developing, starting with Sid. I have another project in the works that I'm not ready to announce yet, but when I do it too will be discussed.

I'm now testing my ping code for Sid. I have to post here (instead of to my local copy of Conversant) because weblogs.com tried to read the site when you ping. So in order to check that it's all working I have to post to (and ping for) a site weblogs.com can reach.

Well, I think I've beaten back most of the bugs I introduced while "upgrading" Sid to Apple's new web services API. I should have known to keep a working copy of Sid around. Oy.

I'm up to my greasy armpits in Sid tonight (this morning?)... this is another test to see if I've got it all back together. I seem to remember that my Dad once thought he had that old Triumph motorcycle all back together too...

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To those on the redmonk mail list: sorry about all the webservices posts - I've been working on Sid, and was debugging it at 2 am - a bunch of posts slipped through the email system before I could delete them from the site...

Whew. Well, it's 2:17 am and I finally got this thing working I think. If you're seeing this on the home page, then I've finally got Sid moved over from the old XML-RPC framework I was using to Apple's new WebServicesCore framework.

I'm scaring Aaron.

I just sent this to Apple via their iCal feedback page:

"I think it would be very useful to allow HTML in the DESCRIPTION and SUBJECT fields, so that hyperlinks and formatting can be included. This would enhance the workflow of shared calendars - users can create an event, then point (in the description or subject) to a web-based resource."

I forgot to post this on Tuesday when I heard it, but NPR's Public Interest "Tech Tuesday" had a piece on blogging. (Real Audio) Rebecca Blood was the main guest, along with David Gallagher and Eric Olsen from BlogCritics.org. All in all it was not a lot of new material, but it was interesting to hear the guests, and amusing to hear Kojo saying "blahg". -)

A comment to Morbus's O'Reilly post reveals how to get clickable urls. Put the url between angle brackets (< >).

It has been determined (by me) that iCal borks on mac-style line endings (\r - oh, the irony!) Morbus whipped up a perl cgi that will convert your mac-style line endings to unix ones, so you can subscribe to a mac-encoded calendar.

Morbus has updated his entry on iCal, vCalendar, and Moveable Type. If you're an MT hack, he needs a plug-in that strips links in a post and gathers them as footnotes at the bottom of the post.