Little quiet round here
The last 6+ months I took a deliberate, extended break from coding. I lost 15kg, turned 30 and am working towards a trip to Nepal. Certain things had to be sacrificed to make that happen, coding, gaming and blogging among them.
This site is going into maintenance mode. If you’re still keen on following what’s happening [...]
Spring cleaning
The last few weeks have been a crazy whirlwind of deadlines. In response I took the first weekend off from coding in three months and unwound a little with Spore.
Lesson learnt. You can’t burn the candle at both ends indefinitely. By this I mean spending 40+ hours a week coding, on top of your [...]
Pepper Alpha Available
So I’ve been gradually working on fixing bugs and cleaning things up in Pepper the last week.
I figure it’s usable enough for me, so it’s probably ready for the adventurous to give a try. Expect bugs, crashes, use at your own risk, etc.
Download: pepper-1.0a-latest.zip, Pepper Release Notes 1.0a
Pepper peek
Here’s an updated screenshot from one of my testers:
A few changes:
Tag support has been removed for the initial release.
Added a “My Videos” folder. Under the hood this is a smart playlist of all your videos.
Automatically detects if files have been added and removed to one of your “Places” and updates automatically.
Replicated the “Open With” feature [...]
Pareto principle at work
Why does the final 20% of a project take 80% of your time?
Welcome back
Well after an unfortunate mishap involving phpmyadmin and the drop button, I’ve finally gotten around to bringing the blog back online.