Articles in category 'Programming'

I know the name sounds a bit awkward and geeky, but GHOP is a masterpiece move by Google in the endless game against Microsoft. I may just be a pawn, but that doesn’t bother me one bit.
For those of you that missed it, Google announced GHOP (Google Highly Open Participation) about two weeks ago. The [...]

December 9, 2007, 10:21 pm o'clock

For those of you that haven’t been following on the Awn forums, I wrote Awn Terminal, my first applet for Awn, last week.
I’ve put in some more work (and spent some time wondering whether its even possible to come up with a more unintuitive system than gconf), and version 0.4 is now done.
Instead of listing [...]

December 3, 2007, 5:12 pm o'clock

Sorry about the lack of updates. I’m working on a plugin for Wordpress. The plugin’s purpose is to confuse email harvesters (computer programs that crawl along the internet looking for emails to spam) and to prevent them from collecting any emails. I’m going to attempt that using several methods that I don’t think anyone else is [...]

June 20, 2007, 6:03 am o'clock

UPDATE: Thanks to some advice by doomlaser, I’ve fixed the problem with the screensaver. You can download the new version from the link at the bottom of the page.
Check out this screensaver. If you look at it in System Preferences it looks harmless enough. But when you actually run it, it shows a (fake) kernel [...]

April 12, 2007, 9:58 pm o'clock

This is a tutorial on basic HTML. HTML is a markup language (a markup language is similar to a programming language) that is mainly used to create websites. It is also used to make widgets for Mac OSX. This tutorial is the first part of a series on how to make widgets. Eventually, I’m going [...]

March 22, 2007, 10:21 pm o'clock