This is the first attempt at a redesign:

The connections are now listed in a collapsable sidebar and can be both added and removed. You can also edit the connection in the main area. Changes are automatically saved.

It’s not ready yet, but it may appear sometime soon.

SVG format is a vector diagram format that can be rendered by many web browsers or edited in vector drawing programs like Inkscape.

Here is an embedded svg file:

The neat thing is that if the image gets scaled it should scale fairly cleanly.
(The lines get a bit fuzzy due to the anti-aliasing)

Click on the image and you should see the file displayed full size (no separate preview image!)

This should work in Chrome, Safari and Firefox. There are currently some issues with Opera which doesn’t draw the text. I think this is an error in the SQLEditor export code somewhere because I have some early test versions that do work in Opera.

I haven’t tested this with Internet Explorer, but SVG is apparently supported in v9.

I’m still fine tuning the details on this, the examples on this page were tweaked to include a defined view port so that they clip properly and don’t include a lot of white space. This should get done during the export in the next release.

I’m hoping to write another post about how SQLEditor is doing this, it proved to be fairly easy, except for the difficult bits.

Sometimes though I get confused which version I’m running. Is the app in the dock the old version, or the new version or something else?

So today I had an idea: Why not put the version number on the dock tile?

Here’s the code to do it:

if (DEBUG) {
  id badgeText = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"D-%@",[[[NSBundle mainBundle] infoDictionary] valueForKey:@"CFBundleVersion"]];
  [[NSApp dockTile] setBadgeLabel:badgeText];
}

This assumes that you’ve got DEBUG defined somehow and that you have an infoDictionary with the relevant keys and values set.

And here’s what it looks like in the dock:

Regular version on the left, development version on the right.

I’m not sure how useful this will actually be, but it seemed a handy trick for development.

The consoles are still competitive platforms. Nothing in the phone world lasts that well.

This is not a criticism of the iPhone, which is a brilliant device, instead a thought about the longevity of the consoles.

The idea only dates from about 1976, it doesn’t seem to be in any law and it probably doesn’t lead to the best outcomes anyway.

I could never find any trace of it later, but today I did:

Chlebnyy den (Bread Day) 1998
Directed by Sergei Dvortsevoy

The Harvard Film Archive showed it a while ago

Apple: please provide more modifier keys on the keyboard for even more complicated shortcuts!

(Or more rationally, I’ll probably change it around and the commands will end up in a popup menu or something, which is actually better for discoverability anyway)

Sorry about staff

The amazing thing is how small the mechanical parts are, and how many there are in there. This camera probably costs no more than £200, yet there are minuscule parts and an amazing level of tiny details, all of which has to work reliably, without any maintenance, for a possible lifespan of several years.

The details of the lens assembly are particularly clever with multiple layers and motors which move the different parts. The coils which are printed onto the circuit board and form part of the movement mechanism is clever feature.

I’m amazed