Oops, not posted anything in a while, well XSM is the software of the moment! recent additions include: FTP backend UTF-8 default encoding fixes most translation issues last login is stored to help folk see how long they have been idle for on a site Thereis also a new selection of pages on the XSM site including screenshotsof XSM managed sites and some artwork for … Continue reading XSM improvements galore
OK, so back from the wedding now and can honestly say that not only have I never been happier in my entire life, but also that I never realised a single day could encompas so many of the happiest moments of my life!!! The day was fantastic, perfect, special, sunny, cheerful… yes I have run out of ways to describe it, this is the only problem I am encountering – … Continue reading Wedding Bells have rung
OK, so I honestly thought I had seen the end of the crash ramifications, but oh no! Iwent to the opticians about a funny blur in my eye, well – it turns out(they think) that this is a result of my accident. Apparently a smallpiece of tissue has broken off from inside my eye and is now floatingaround indside! Still – apparently my vision is … Continue reading Bang on the head
OK, so it has been a really long time now, but I finally got roundto taking a picture of the damage, so I thought I would write it up. Whencycling home along the cycle paths a few weeks back someidiot-without-helmet-cycling-as-fast-as-he-can fool darted out in frontof me on his bike not looking and not realising that he as on afootpath! Anyhow, after quite a while in … Continue reading Cycling crash
OK, so XSM is moving on again with the addition of a new site –“Get-E.org”. This is a cool new (busy) site for information on gettingE17 onto your system. Better still, for me anyhow, I now have 8 moreusers on XSM updating and uploading content frequently and it isstanding up well! All I need to do is fill in a few missing pieces offunctionality and … Continue reading XSM gains another site
No, you did not read it wrong! I am currently in Italy attending aTechnical Committee meeting by OGC along with many other interestedparties. As it was I was unsure if I would make it along it was agreedthat I could have a couple of days in Rome first to make up for it, andwhat an event that turned out to be! We had obviously heard … Continue reading Deeply moving conference
Oh baby yeah! The e17 engage module now accepts .eapp XDND drops – trygrabbing a .eapp file in evidence and dropping it – pretty cool no? 🙂very exciting! Oh, also the e_util_eapp_edit application now acts as adrag source, so you can drag the icon it has loaded into engage too 🙂 Continue reading Engage module accepts DROPs
OK, so as a distraction from all the paperwork at home I set out on a small mission – we should be able to browse our edje (.eet & .eapp) files in our browser! So, a download of the plugin SDK and a hack in the mozilla source later and we have this: The page being viewed is simply OK, so I need to tidy up the code … Continue reading Firefox plugin
OK, so anyone who tried may have noticed that java behaves a tadpeculiarly in e17. We assumed this was because there was a bug in out(still very young) code. However, after quite a bit of debugging itseemed not. Now, me being “blessed” with Java experience was assignedto find the issue and… 3 days later having gone through some nastylow level (in the VM, not the … Continue reading BLOODY JAVA!!!
OK, so I got bored and everything else was going slow so I startedporting engage to an e17 module. I decided not to port, insteadre-wrote almost from scratch as engage has quite a few issues. Istarted with ibar and stripped out a lot, added a few features thenported in zoom_function (the only remaining piece of code from genneth[with speed improvements]). Right now it is just … Continue reading Engage + E17 = teh win!
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