Recently I’ve been using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) for writing a web-based application (nothing I can talk about just yet 🙂 ). It’s a very nice way of building an AJAX-type web app in pure Java. You write the client-side code in much the same way as you would a typical Java GUI application,… Read More »
Early today (give or take) NZ time, eMusic/J was featured in comments on both Slashdot and Digg. As a result, on the 24th of May, there were 56 downloads of eMusic/J, compared to a typical day of around about 5. Hopefully this will help the userbase grow a good bit. Oh, and before you ask,… Read More »
The other day I finally put out another release of eMusic/J. Here’s what’s changed: Renamed ‘None’ to ‘Clear’ for the .emp drop for button, added a ‘Clear’ button to the proxy settings Allowed proxy settings able to be cleared (fixes bug #14) – Oops, turned out there was a bug here. My fault 🙂 Made… Read More »
A few years ago, I learnt LISP at university. Just for a semester, write a poetry generator, things like that. All pretty simple. I didn’t get into it much at the time, beyond what I had to, but I do remember thinking that it looked like quite a powerful and fun language. A while ago,… Read More »
I’ve had a couple of requests from people for a 64-bit version of eMusic/J. So I made one. It’s theoretically just a matter of substituting the appropriate SWT libraries with the 64-bit versions, but I have no way of testing it. I have heard that it worked, but required a bit of finagling with system… Read More »
eMusic/J 0.17 has been released! I’ll start with the obligitory changelog annotation, even though there’s a fair bit of small, boring stuff in it. Added new set of icons, from Liron Tocker (http://lironbot.com). More on this below. About text box now has a scrollbar (fixes bug #7), changed the look of it a bit to… Read More »
Last week I spent Monday through to Saturday at linux.conf.au, which was a very good conference on Linux stuff. I hoped to write about things as they happened, but lacking a laptop, I was only able to spend an hour or so per day using a computer and so it didn’t happen. So now I’ll… Read More »
The new version is in the usual place. Well, finally I put the major feature into eMusic/J that I was waiting for before I put out a new release: the drop directory thing. There are a bunch of other changes, and I’ll just put a narrated and abridged version of the changelog here. If a… Read More »
I got a bunch of UI updates in, so it should now look/behave a little bit better. Here’s what’s changed: The display for the title and download status no longer gets ugly when the title is long. Now the download status will always be displayed, and the title truncated. The status is also in bold… Read More »
Well, mostly. I’ve finished rearranging the content on it so that it’s no longer in one great big page. Now all the important stuff is on the front page, and all the stuff that people are only likely to use a little bit are a click away. It still needs a real user manual, but… Read More »