Distracted Attention

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 [...]

Posted by Nick | June 9, 2009 | Filed under News

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 [...]

Posted by Nick | September 12, 2008 | Filed under News, Personal

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

Posted by Nick | August 21, 2008 | Filed under News

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 [...]

Posted by Nick | August 17, 2008 | Filed under Design, News

Pareto principle at work

Why does the final 20% of a project take 80% of your time?

Posted by Nick | July 30, 2008 | Filed under News

Welcome back

Well after an unfortunate mishap involving phpmyadmin and the drop button, I’ve finally gotten around to bringing the blog back online.

Posted by Nick | July 15, 2008 | Filed under News