josh lucas' Radio Weblog

Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:23:34 GMT

That Freakin' Manual 1.1 is out.. Classical Software released version 1.1 of TFM today. 1.1 is a misnomer -- it is easily a 1.5, if not a 2.0 kind of jump over 1.0. TFM is like DL, but much, much better. Not only does TFM provide awesome indexing based navigation tools, but it also provides an excellent hierarchical navigation scheme for browing/navigating the documentation. For Java and Objective-C classes, TFM presents a hierarchy of all classes and provides inheritance based navigation if desired. (I must admit partiality to TFM 1.1 -- the author was kind enough to provide me with some early betas and much of the feedback I gave appears in 1.1. :-) I highly recommend downloading TFM and spending some time with it. Ob-Python: I grabbed the Python documentation HTML tarball and dropped it into a new TFM document. It works brilliantly. I can be editing python code, select an expression/function, copy-to-pasteboard, and select the "Search in Python Documentation" menu item from TFM's dock menu (or services menu). TFM finds what I wanted just about ever time! [bbum's rants, code & references] Wow! This sounds very, very cool and definitely would be useful!!

Fri, 06 Dec 2002 18:41:09 GMT

A judge likens MS's removal of Java to clubbing a competitor in the knees. I've never understood why Sun has a right to bundle its language with Windows. Sheez, I'd love to bundle Radio with Windows. How about it? Why aren't they clubbing me in the knees? What makes Java so special? I think Radio is much better. [Scripting News] While I totally agree with Dave on the sentiment of why should Java have to be on Windows when other things aren't, I'm just going to ignore the last comment since I don't know how you would compare Radio and Java. Apples and Oranges and that might even be too close..

Fri, 06 Dec 2002 08:35:22 GMT

I have some little pads on my desk which I use to keep lists of things I'm working on or notes for myself. These aren't post-it notes but a little bigger. I've tried using legal pads or notebooks but it never seems to work out well. I've been toying with the idea of writing a little TODO app for myself since I've tried various apps and none are what I'm looking for. Most aren't even in the same ballpark which is unfortunate because I would much rather keep these notes instead of getting tired of the clutter and shredding the paper products.

Fri, 06 Dec 2002 07:54:02 GMT

I've spent the better part of today, trying to get a RPM for the Tomcat connector for Apache. It's being a pain since it's more updated than the Tomcat we are currently using in one of our branches. We are definitely behind in upgrading Tomcat but since we are shipping production code, it was not the right time to consider an upgrade. Unfortunately, it looks like we will still need to upgrade unless I can find the magic pixie dust which will get this built..

Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:13:10 GMT

It's been a little bit since I've updated here. Sometimes I forget to launch Radio, especially now that I use NetNewsWire for my aggregation. Perhaps this will break me out of my funk.. At any rate, I'm starting to look at Ribosome a bit. It's the build system for Real's code they released. We have done something similar at work and I'm interested in seeing the similarities...