Slashdot Mirror
Thursday Release Party
taktile writes "I started the project about a week and a half ago after learning about Apple's ASCIIMoviePlayer. QuickASCII is an Open Source project to add improvements to Apple's player."
Another user writes, "There is a small group collaboration program called iStorm that is out. It anyone gets tired of severely delayed collaboration over the Internet, maybe he should try an almost telepathic experience with this program."
ludeyork writes "I just saw that BBEdit 7.0 has been released and it's got great new features." It's very cool, and by cool, I mean totally sweet. The CVS integration is worth the upgrade for me.
yuck72 writes "Apple has just released version 5.2 of its WebObjects application server. Improvements include better J2EE integration, easy tools for building SOAP-based web services and Java Webstart support. Applications can be deployed on any machine with a Java 1.3.1 compliant JVM. Apple's 'best-kept secret' really deserves more attention than it currently gets considering that it plays in the same league as Websphere and Weblogic." Oops, maybe I should have given it its own story.
...how nice to hear a passel of good news, satisified customers, etc. -- and in the computer industry! OMG.
Thanks for the good vibes. All this carping about Microsoft and the evil spying government gives us indigestion. (It's merely a question of proportions in the "omelette.")
SFTP access. I use dreamweaver and golive and both cannot connect to a CVS or SFTP based server.
I know there are third party tools but I want the whole thing integrated.
If BB has it i'm dropping Dreamweaver and GoLive, if it doesn't it's wait as usual. Since I didn't see it I guess I'll keep waiting.
Looking at the extensive feature list of BBEdit, it's kinda ironic that it's produced by Bare Bones Software...
...what I really need is a program that allows my boss and I to collaborate on user support documentation. For this to happen, I need to be able to set it to display whatever "improvements" he makes on his screen, but somehow fail to apply those changes to the actual document. I'd pay a lot for such a bug. =)
yes
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
For web development my tools are BBEdit, MacCVS Pro 2.7b2, and Transmit 1.7b2. It goes without saying that BBEdit is by far the best editor in any class for making dynamic web sites involving PHP, perl, shell scripts, and SQL. The way I usually work is to maintain my local repository with MacCVS, edit with BBEdit, and use Transmit to FTP files to the remote development servers for testing.
...And then dismiss the modal dialog.
I've been using BBEdit 7 for about a day, especially testing out the CVS integration. It's really good, but there are some things I miss about MacCVS Pro.
- BBEdit lacks tag, edit, and watch commands.
- Although you can do some CVS operations in the BBEdit File Browser (and File Groups) you can't do certain operations when multiple files are selected (including "commit file" oddly).
- BBEdit doesn't show the status of files in the file browser, file groups, or in window headers. The only way to get revision information is to "Get CVS Status" and read a modal dialog.
- BBEdit's CVS operations tend to be slower than MacCVS, or seem so, because MacCVS is robustly threaded. BBEdit puts up modal "wait" dialogs every single time it has to contact the remote CVS server.
- If you're going to do secure CVS BBEdit requires you to set up one of SSH's auto-authentication methods (The whole "ssh-keygen -t dsa" rigamarole). Once the authentication is set up BBEdit's CVS integration is compatible with MacCVS, and the combination is much better than either one by itself.
- On the positive side, BBEdit's diff function was meant to be integrated with CVS. (BBEdit does the diff itself without using CVS's diff command.)
The geeks at BareBones have done a great job so far. They're doing the right thing by adding new features gradually, releasing just what works. Obviously they don't want to turn their editor into bloatware. Being able to checkin or diff without leaving BBEdit is a great bonus. If they are able to make BBEdit more threaded and add CVS features to the File Browser (and make it hierarchical for goodness sake!) I might finally be able to give up MacCVS Pro.
But not yet.
-- thinkyhead software and media
Quote:
One button mouse.
Keyboards that none wants to use.
Paying for every service pack.
Overpriced hardware.
Mac zealots that hink that PCs only run Windows 95.
Slow processors.
Plunging share price.
Slow software updates.
Poor market share.
Bloated GUI.
Grinning idiots on Apple's homepage.
What about windoze problems?
* Inability to realise you can buy multi-button mice for $10.
* Keyboards with thousands of proprietry keys from thousands of manufacturers (a "check email" key, I mean really!).
* Having to deal with a buggy, broken OS that seems to develop more security holes with each patch applied.
* Inability to realise that 10.1 to 10.2 is like windoze 95 > windows 98. M$ didn't give you a copy of thier peice of shit OS for free did they?
* Users caught in the myth that a 50 GHz processor is useless if the rest of your hardware is rubbish.
* I don't own shares in Apple
* How does lower market share affect my productivity/enjoyment of Apple?
* Crayola GUI in latest OS. Bears more than a passing resemblance to a certain other OS with an X in the name. Copying again M$? tch tch.
* Stock photo idiots on M$'s homepage (remember M$'s supposed "switch" ad?)
* Having to use your own employees to promote your OS in a fake switch ad, since no one else will.
* Lacking a nice Unix core that has proved very useful to me in OSX.
Oh, and one last thing.
* Digital Rights Removal, errr, Digital Restrictions Management, err, no sorry Digital Rights Management.