An Experiment in Bloggery

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, I know. I really should start posting again. I just don’t have much to talk about. Here’s an update on my current status:

Colloquy

Colloquy is a Mac OS X IRC client. It’s not as powerful as some others, notably X-Chat Aqua, but it’s the only one that’s actually well-designed from a UI standpoint (it looks like an Aqua IRC client should look). Colloquy is also really nice from a code standpoint. For instance, the way it does Styles. It has several different styles, and they all look fairly different. The way it’s done is everything is rendered in a WebView using Safari’s WebKit. It translates the IRC traffic into an XML log and uses XSLT to translate the log into an XHTML document and renders that in the WebView. For new messages it uses JavaScript to append the message to the end of the document. This makes it really flexible and really powerful. Here’s a screenshot of my favorite style, called Meinzer:

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I just finished version 1.0 of Rendezvous Browser. This application will let you browse the rendezvous services available on your local network. It comes complete with a list of known services and lets you add your own to browse for. Very useful if you want to know what services are being advertised on what computers. You can download it here.

Recently I’ve been going through some Cocoa tutorials, including ones on Rendezvous and networking. A few hours ago I decided to test my knowledge of Rendezvous and write a Rendezvous Browser - an application to display all the domains and rendezvous services.

Well, it turns out you can’t scan for arbitrary Rendezvous Services - you have to know what service you’re scanning for. But, conveniently, Rendezvous Beacon (now called Network Beacon, a name change I don’t like) had a list of known Rendezvous Services (with the exception that the iChat service was wrong), so I just took that.

So anyway, I finished my application to display the Rendezvous services available on the network. Next thing I’ll do with it is add preferences so you can select what services to scan or add your own.

For the interested, a here’s a screenshot:

Well, I’ve done some more work on myBlog. The Entries/Drafts drawer now displays the full list. The Ping URLs table is now fully-functional. A bunch of things now get saved into preferences. The structure for saving post/blog information has been implemented.

I’m probably about 25% done with this.

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Well, I’ve made some progress with myBlog. First, I’ve decided to ditch the 3rd-party XMLRPC framework and use the WebServicesCore framework, now that I actually know about it :D

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I’ve started development on an application I’m calling myBlog. It’s an application for posting to MovableType blogs, similar to Kung-Log. However, the goal of this application is to be much more writer-oriented. The idea came from codepoet

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I just finished version 1.1 of iTunes Remote. This new version how has slightly better code for the timer and error handling, and it also lets you define a global hotkey that brings it to the front.