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Monkeying about with XUL
I've been playing with XUL for a couple of days now. Kind of interesting and kind of really confusing.
It looks like it could be really useful for making cross-platform applications and the way it works means that it's not a huge jump from HTML development to XUL layouts but getting plugins to work on OS X? Ugh.
The large number of folders called 'plugins' within the standard application structure definitely didn't help. At the moment, my application works but I have no idea why. It's probably a quantum thing, you can either know what it does or how it does it but not both.
Still, it's available for download on the (almost finished) MonkeyTV site. Now I just need to go through the process again for Windows...
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Finally Gapless...
A while back I decided to try and fully embrace 'The Mac Way' and use iTunes to listen to my music/update my iPod/browse podcasts/etc. So I fired it up, told it to catalogue my music collection and sat back hoping to be listening to Ben Folds within minutes.
Hmmmm...
It's now six weeks later and it finished processing about 10 minutes ago. During those 6 weeks, it was completely unusable while it tried to 'determine gapless playback information'. While it was waiting, I found out how you prevent it from doing this but that has to be done before you start.
Six weeks. Six. Weeks.
To be fair, it probably doesn't expect your music collection to be quite so large or – and this is where I think the problem is – live on a server on the other side of the world.
Still, it's done now. I just need to make sure I never add any more music ever.
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Monkey TV
So, my latest little project, Monkey TV is about to shift from the aleph to the bet testing stage (Hebrew's much more fun than greek). The site's only been up in its current state for less than 3 days and already it's been hammered by hundreds of spam bots. Really, they're faster than google.
More info and cool stuff when I finish.
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Finally, It's cold!
After an excessively long summer, it's finally beginning to cool down here. I can't believe I was getting a tan in November.
Of course, I'm now beginning to realise that this flat is built for the summer. Air conditioning, thin curtains, no heaters... but I shan't complain. I survived typhoon season unscathed and there are a lot fewer cockraches around at this time of year...
