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If anyone's had any troubles with the text appearing in their versions of Safari 3 for Windows, make sure to update to the most recent version (3.0.2). It has now fixed the troubles I've had on both my work PC and personal laptop - neither of them would display the text. I am now able to properly browse the internet (I couldn't even type anything into the address bar before); and read the text on those pages. Absolutely wonderful! The Beta is now a workable one. The Apple team seems to have been working on this quite hastily, but doing a decent job. This'll probably be about the only product of theirs that I'll ever be using purposefully on a Windows machine (although, to be fair, it'll probably be just for testing!) except for QuickTime when I have to.

Posted by Brendon Kozlowski

For a long time I've wanted to start using Subversion. I see all the benefits of using such a system, but I haven't taken the time to learn it. I've installed it (v1.3.2) a long time ago, but I never really did anything with it -- it was simply so I could interact with SmartSVN (a SVN client) to download others' repositories. I think it's about time I start using it in a more meaningful way on my own projects. In order to do this, I thought it would be best to start from scratch (and therefore uninstalled all previous, remotely related software). (For further learning on SVN, please visit Red-Bean's SVN Book online.)

So, it had been so long since I've done anything with Subversion, where was I to begin? I've read about all the great and wonderful things SVN can offer, but...how do I get it, how do I install it, and then how can I access it?

Continue reading "Installing and Setting up Subversion (SVN) Under Windows XP"

Posted by Brendon Kozlowski

Crimson Editor is my favorite text editor for more than a few reasons, which I'll spare you with the details for; we all have our own preferences. Anyhow...

I was looking for a screenshot or documentation on how to integrate a compiler or external executable with CrimsonEditor as an example to clarify something, and I noticed that Emerald Editor was linked to from the main page of CrimsonEditor's website...that meant that Ingyu Kang was still around... It also made me wonder why EE was linked, so I went to the link.

On the main news page of Emerald Editor, the team leader announced that Ingyu Kang gave the EE team the source code to Crimson Editor to work from. The EE team decided to release it publically through Subversion. I know there's more than a few tweaks I've wanted to make to this editor (such as better regex support)!

It's written in C++ for those who wanted to know. It's also a Win32 application (sorry *nix guys). It could probably get ported though.

http://www.emeraldeditor.com/

Posted by Brendon Kozlowski

Since others were having fun with it, I decided to show off a quick, poorly chosen framerate flash demonstration of Intype creating an XHTML/PHP file to do the all-famous Hello World script. Obviously, the point is not to demonstrate my coding knowledge (or mis-knowledge), but to show off the text editor's snippet control features, and how it can speed up development. In case you're curious how it interacts, for the first step I typed out the text xml and then pressed the TAB key, everything was automatically filled in for the XML header. I then typed in doctype and then TAB, but since there are multiple doctypes, it gave me a choice of which one I wanted to use, so I used the arrow keys to highlight the desired choice and pressed the ENTER key. To move through the parameter list within each snippet (fillable properties), you would also use the TAB key and enter whatever it is you want, or press the DELETE or BACKSPACE (I think) key to remove the entire property.

Please note the system clock window to know how long this actually took me -- you can clock it, heck you can even clock my hesitation since I'm not used to the tool yet.

Continue reading "An XHTML Strict, PHP Hello World from Scratch in Under 60 Seconds with Intype"

Posted by Brendon Kozlowski

The very first alpha public version of Intype has been released for testing. The developers are looking for feedback on this release - but do keep in mind it is the very first release. If you've ever used an editor or IDE in Windows, you will probably wonder what's so special about something like this...there seem to be no features!

Continue reading "Windows version of TextMate: Intype"

Posted by Brendon Kozlowski