Archive for February, 2007

IronCoder V

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
IronCoder V has been announced for 30 March through 1 April! I’m not sure if I’ll be able to make time to participate again. Perhaps if inspiration strikes me after seeing the theme and API, I’ll throw something together. Regardless, this provides motivation to release NewsHawker before the competition so I can donate a license as a prize. Regardless of whether I do that, I encourage you to enter; you’ll learn something and have fun at the same time.

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NewsHawker 1.0.0b3 Available

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
NewsHawker 1.0.0b3 is now available. The major new feature is support for the Apple Remote. This integration must be explicitly enabled in the preferences. Note that NewsHawker will only “listen” to the Apple Remote when it is the front-most application. This allows you to continue to use the remote in the standard manner when NewsHawker is not the front-most application. …

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Apple Remote Support

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
The most requested feature for NewsHawker is support for the Apple Remote. Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t provide a public API for this. I considered only supporting the Apple Remote through third-party applications such as Sofa Control and Remote Buddy. However, once I found Martin Kahr’s Apple Remote Controller Wrapper Class, I decided to integrate support directly in NewsHawker. …

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Mmmm Minty!

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
The NewsHawker public beta has generated enough referral links that by the end of January I could no longer easily determine which referrals were new with Awstats. I like to keep track of and visit new referrals since the referring site often has feedback on the application or has questions which I may be able to answer. Mint 2 was recently released and I was very pleased to discover it solved this problem extremely well and was a joy to use. Mint was easy to install but, nonetheless, I’ll share what I did to integrate it with my WordPress 2.0-based site. …

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