iAppViews: Apple's iApp Style Tables and Outlines. “Some of Apple's iApps, such as iPhoto, and Safari, have tables and outlines with alternating blue backgrounds. This appearance is not trivial to duplicate.” I spent many hours getting my own NJRTableView to do this properly, and a recent email I received from Nat recounted his problems doing the same for NSOutlineView. (Thanks, Nat, for sending me a follow-up email with a pointer to this site.)
The Rileys wiki is up and running, though mainly content-free for the moment. Its appearance is pretty much the way I want it, and the functionality will continue to improve. I showed it to my father after dinner tonight and he took to it immediately—not that that guarantees he'll contribute in future, but it's a good sign.
The wiki is about 2500 lines of Python with Medusa as its HTTP server. In order to provide a sane URL, it runs behind Apache using mod_proxy_http. I had some problems initially because of a bug in Apache httpd-2.1-dev, which causes ProxyPass to not work properly if the proxied server supports connection keep-alive. There's no problem with 1.3.x, the version which every other sane person uses. 
(Just discovered developer.danger.com is a Mac—since I saw an error message from port 16080, Apple's traditional WebPerformanceCache port. Of course I could have checked the HTTP headers, but that’s too easy. Neat!)
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.
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.
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!
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