Monthly Archives: June 2004

Create a low end database program

Punkish made the suggestion in one of the comments (actually the only comment) back on May 29th about adding an actual database to SQLEditor and turning it into a database program. The more I think about this the more I … Continue reading

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Popup cat and mouse

Can’t stop the pop-ups | CNET News.com The cat and mouse game between web site publishers, advertisers and site visitors continues. The latest thing is popup adds that avoid getting hit by popup blockers. I’m kind of preferring either regular … Continue reading

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Overlapping NSViews in cocoa

One thing that is desperately obvious when rewriting a java application to cocoa is overlapping views. In java you can often overlap swing components as long as they are lightweight (not operating system controls for instance). The cocoa documentation says … Continue reading

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Static vs Dynamic content on websites

One of the big things over the last few years in websites has been the rise of dynamically generated sites. Instead of writing each page by hand developers use languages like php, perl and python to create pages. Websites are … Continue reading

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SQLEditor Beta 3 (kindof)

SQLEditor Cocoa Beta 3 is making good progress. The only things remaining for the current beta are: Finish the menu handing Write some help It now pretty much supports importing java version saved files although it’s still having trouble with … Continue reading

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SQLEditor drag and drop

David was commenting that drag and drop from the java version of SQLEditor was handy, so it’s returned! I implemented a new floating window which allows the user to drag and drop objects onto the main canvas. Which seems to … Continue reading

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Sugar Syrup Kind of works

I tried making sugar popcorn with sugar syrup yesterday and it pretty much works. Although I used icing sugar (because I had surplus) and I think next time I’m going to try using granulated instead. I found that melting it … Continue reading

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