Oskar Krawczyk – blog.olicio.us

I’ll try to skip the UI stuff as it needs to be re-designed from scratch in my opinion.

• Smart code indention - when pasting the code should auto adjust its indention depth.
• Smart quote – select a string, hit single-quote or double-quote and presto, the string gets automatically quoted. This is super handy while working with JavaScript.
• Color picker – while working with CSS files what I need is a dynamic color picker, you select a hex or an rgb value, hit Cmd+Shift+C and the picker appears with the passed color value pre-selected.
• That’s actually definable inside the theme file. More accurate syntax highlighting – especially JavaScript syntax. Methods should have different color than variables.
• Find in project – a simple global search (and replace), please?
• Shortcuts – more of them. Where’s the project filter shortcut.
• Bracket highlighter – just like Code Coda and TextMate do it.
• Subversion integration – at least show which files are to be committed.
• Fixed Command+W – should close the active tab no the project window as it currently does.

Make it happen good people of Macrabbit!

As noted, trying to create something nice with Adobe AIR ended up in being a total fiasco.

Fortunately there is a new player, his name is Titanium.

I have given it a go, hoping I can move my project to the new, more open platform. Installed the SDK, did some digging just to find out that Titatnium is not as open as the authors make us believe it is.

It’s using Prototype as the fundamental JS framework which unfortunately leaves us with the option of using highly namespaced JavaScript frameworks (YUI or jQuery) as the ones of choice.

This is pretty bad news.

It’s pretty much leaving developers who like to have everything under control (the Frameworks Holly War, don’t want to get into that today), with our pants down.

On the bright side, I like their logo.

A few months ago I have given some time into developing a project I came up with – which would be quite useful for many AIR developers – unfortunately while Adobe AIR was still a pretty fresh release I ran into many technical obstacles making it pretty impossible to finalize the output.

Now, a few months later, I’ve given it another go just to find that, even though AIR is now in half-way to reach a completely new iteration level, the obstacles are still there, plus a couple of new ones.

I’m a front-end developer so, quite obviously, what I want to use in AIR is the AJAX-HTML option… Adobe had indeed made some good decisions here, ending up with WebKit as the rendering engine – which makes us front-end developers super-happy. Yet, what doesn’t make us that happy is the fact that Adobe decided to trim-down the available features that WebKit provides us with. That leaves us really little to work with, ergo creating beautiful UI using ie. CSS 3 + the -webkit specific properties.

This brings me to the disappointing results point I’ve mentioned at the very beginning. All of the trimming-down, disabling features seem to be caused by Adobe deciding to use some of their obscure and somehow outdated technologies to deal with the completely new ones – which clearly don’t go together.

Come on Adobe, no opacity support? Really? Please.

In other news: I’m really hooked on Iron & Wine lately.

WTFramework has been updated to 2.0 and is available to download from a new location!

Here we have the work of my life – where by saying life I mean 20 minutes of it. This is a pretty simple and straight–forward bookmarklet.

Say you come across a website, see a few pretty cool effects (right click to ensure it’s not Flash driven) and you’d like to know which of the some three fabulous JavaScript frameworks (MooTools, Yahoo User Interface, jQuery, the infamous Scriptaculous, Dojo Toolkit, Mochikit, etc.) are being used to rise the magic.

Typically, you’d have to look for the script tag in the source. Well forget about it, now you have WTFramework – one click and a info pops–up informing which framework are we dealing with.

Just drag and drop the link onto your Bookmark Bar: WTFramework v1.3

I’ll add more frameworks in the future releases. Have fun.

Update (9 Nov 2008) – version 1.1

• Script.aculo.us and Prototype are now separated
• The bookmarklet will tell you which version of the framework is in use
• Added Dojo Toolkit and MochiKit to the recognizable frameworks list

Update (10 Nov 2008) – version 1.2

• Redesigned
• The info-box has the highest possible z-index

Update (11 Nov 2008) – version 1.3

• Press bookmarklet to toggle show/hide
• Added Base2 recognition

This post is outdated. My opinion might have changed since the time this post was published.

Not that I’m a huge conspiracy theory fan, but it would make sense. Macromates always seemed to me to be more of a one person indie development project – Allan Odgaard. And like most indie developers, there’s a time when they’re being hired/acquired/eaten by bigger companies – which MacRabbit seems to be.

Besides, it would seem it’s about time for Allan to release his new offspring – it’s been almost three years since the last update for Pete’s sake!

Are you with me? Is Espresso, TextMate 2? I’d love if that was the case.

Unfortunately the solution is not for everyone out there, since what you need to get the Artwork is an iTunes Music Store account. Also, even if one has his account, it’s highly probable he won’t be able to fetch Artworks for more obscure/less popular albums.

Thankfully, there is a fairly simple and a free solution to get around the annoyance – Last.fm. I’m sure most of you already know and noticed the available little album artwork down at the band’s album page:

Now that would look great on your iPod Touch but what about iTunes – surely don’t want to use Zoom to see the cover. Cut to the chase. Last.fm keeps more than one size of the cover on their servers – the small one, which is 130 by 130 pixels wide and a bigger one: 300 by 300 – not sure if there are any different (ideally bigger) sizes available.

Basically, what you need to do is edit the image address of the album you’re looking for. Open the mini image in a new tab and replace the 130 with 300 so the URL looks similar this:

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/300x300/3622453.jpg

Which leaves you with pasting the image into iTunes.