Archive for October, 2005
Oh. My. God.
As far away as you are from me, right now? That’s how far I was from Edge.
Bono explained that Edge comes from the planet Zootopia, and when his spaceship landed in north Dublin in the 70s, it made a peculiar four-note sound, which now precedes “Miracle Drug.”
We were also treated to “Fast Cars” with a grito, “Miss Sarajevo” (Bono’s been brushing up on his Italian), and “Old Man River”.
Catching up this week quickly: working on a GUI to make FeedTree easier to use on Windows and Mac OS; lectured COMP 210 again this morning, and didn’t entirely botch it; leaving in an hour or so to catch U2 at the Toyota Center. (1 2 3 14!)
I just spent hours discovering that you should never, ever use setAction() on a JMenuItem on Mac OS X. The end result is an empty menu (that is, no text in it at all). Why? Who knows. (The correct answer is to use setActionCommand() and addActionListener().) Unfortunately, this same fix does not seem to fix my empty JButton, which will not show its label no matter how hard I try. Update: Wait, no, this fixes the button, too. GRAR!
Write a million times, run nowhere!
FeedTree is on The RSS Weblog (and The P2P Weblog too, both a part of weblogsinc.com).
My eyes glazed over reading the command-line and port-massaging requirements to get this thing running …
Yeah, that part really bothers me too. It’s OK (though not ideal) for the publisher to be a little geeky; it’s criminal for the end-user proxy to need to be started from the command-line. Wrapping a rudimentary GUI application around the proxy for Windows and Mac users is high on my todo.txt.




