njr 3.0

rileys.us is up, sort of. At some point I'll install a real content management system, probably something lightweight and wiki-like, but this is better than nothing, and I'll be able to reuse my work on the style sheets. Trying some prototyping in Dreamweaver and Fireworks MX, since I had copies sitting around—definitely these versions are a lot less annoying to use than earlier versions. Integration between the tools still leaves a lot to be desired, and I can't get Fireworks to output transparent PNGs no matter what I do. (Not that it matters since WinIE6 still doesn't support them). Fireworks is a lousy Mac OS X citizen, consuming 10–15% of my CPU time even with no windows open.

11:23 PM | Radio
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Looks like some good CPU usage improvements are coming to Radio. I've had to set the upstreaming time to a large number to avoid Radio's monopolizing my G4, so this will be great. Wish I had time to try out all the cool Radio tools that are in development, but here I am stuck with a half-broken activeRenderer design for a year or more. Perhaps after I get rileys.us up and running and our photo album fixed… the writing is what's important, anyway.

7:07 PM | Radio
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Once again, today's Brent's birthday, my birthday, and Josh Lucas's birthday. My condolences to Josh for his loss.

It seems really strange to follow up with what a happy time I had tonight, but I will anyway. My parents took me to Casa Romero, a few blocks away from the house they're renovating in Back Bay. Casa Romero is the oldest restaurant in the area, having been there for 32 years. Definitely a different kind of Mexican food from that I'm used to having in Illinois, and very good. We took photos, but they need some Photoshop work to avoid supreme embarrassment, so I'll post them later this week.

Thanks for the birthday wishes from those who emailed me!

6:49 PM | Radio
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MagicHat is “a programmer's research and reference tool. With MagicHat, you navigate through Cocoa's application programming interface (API); review the declarations of language elements such as methods, functions, and constants; and retrieve relevant passages from the Cocoa developer documentation.”

If you're used to using class-dump, MagicHat should seem familiar. MagicHat lets you move easily between class-dump style (except better) generated headers, framework headers, documentation and class hierarchy information. If I ever get any time to work on my Cocoa projects again, I'll certainly be making use of it.

An input manager version is forthcoming, which should make it possible to embed MagicHat like F-Script Anywhere for use as a debugging tool.

6:59 AM | Radio
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Quarter Life Crisis has a great travelogue of Portugal, Germany, London, and Oslo, as a bunch of weblog posts all Interesting to hear about the weight limitations on Ryanair, which a few of my friends are flying from London to the Torp airport outside Oslo.

Had a nice dinner tonight with Mark Benedetto King, like me a former EFnet #unixer and current Subversion contributor. He doesn't exactly look like this any more, and I'm sure glad I no longer look like this.

9:15 PM | Radio
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