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29.6.05

Aspen!

I am in Aspen, Colorado right now, and today was a nothing day. I sat around, on the computer, chatting, and making commits to SVN repositories. As you remember, I’m working on the new site design for Growl. It’s on SVN now, so it’s pretty easy for me to edit and stuff. Also, there’s this secret project I’m working on with a aquaintance. I hope all of you are having fun during your vacation :D
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At 30/06/05 13:33, Anonymous said…

I'm curious, what do you mean when you say you makae commits to Subversion repository, are you just fixing bugs and whatnot. How much do you actually program?

 
At 01/07/05 16:04, Takumi said…

I’m trying to programme. I can programme, just I don’t know how to do everything.

Yesterday, I was having problems with NSImage, for example.

 
At 01/07/05 19:18, russell said…

don't know if you remember me from math class and science class at jw...it's russell...i am amazed at all the things you have done and are doing...


email me sometime... russellcavallaro {at} gmail (dot) com

 
At 01/07/05 21:52, Anonymous said…

How much original code do you actually write when doing a project such as this? Is it mostly just library calls, or are you actually writing objects and other data structures yourself to get the job done? Do you try and write a lot of original, complicated code? What kind of stuff do you not know how to do, and what do you know?

 
At 01/07/05 22:24, Takumi said…

Heh. I try my best, but I do need to look at manuals and tutorials occasionally.

 

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28.6.05

Presenting EyeBrowse

MAJOR UPDATE 6/28/05: Added keyboard shortcuts, removed Print button, changed Reload to R and Stop to X. MINOR UPDATE 6/28/05: Added GPL notices and licence. Deleted build/ from source. Today, I gladly present to you, EyeBrowse, a WebKit based, simple web browser. It does not have many features as of now, but it is ready for testing. If you do test it, leave your name and a comment so I could add you to the Testers list. Here is a screenshot for a glimpse of what it looks like: Screenshot Download EyeBrowse. Download EyeBrowse Source. KNOWN BUGS: Preferences don’t work, except for the last one. Ommiting “http://” and pressing Enter does nothing. Also, the page title won’t show up at the top. PLANNED FEATURES: Tabbed Browsing, Selective Image Loading.
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At 28/06/05 01:18, Anonymous said…

Any chance of the source?

Michael.

 
At 28/06/05 14:02, Anonymous said…

Who wrote this?

 
At 29/06/05 07:44, Takumi said…

Me!

 
At 29/06/05 15:14, space melon said…

I really like how simple this is!

Eli

 
At 29/06/05 19:57, Anonymous said…

So it's the WebKit thing in a frame with an interface you designed?

 
At 29/06/05 21:51, katherine said…

haha. nice name, EyeBrowse.

 
At 29/06/05 21:51, Takumi said…

Basically, yeah.

 
At 08/07/05 02:22, Reikon said…

Cool. You spelled License wrong in the GPL text's name, though. (it's currently "licence.txt")

GJ though, with the ObjC.

 
At 08/07/05 08:43, Takumi said…

It’s supposed to be “licence.txt” wince licence is the British spelling (but license is acceptable too).

I think I’m trying too hard to use British spellings.

 
At 13/07/05 17:23, Reikon said…

Why would you use British spelling if you're an American? "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."

 
At 13/07/05 18:32, Takumi said…

NO! British is purer. American is just… logical and thoughless.

 

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23.6.05

Made a Message Style!

So I made my first very own, started-from-scratch message style! It looks pretty good, but has some quirks. hazmatscreenshot
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At 24/06/05 19:49, katherine said…

I noticed that the last three of your posts begin with the word "So." Just pointing it out.

p.s.-- thanks for the CSS help, now it's on to Javascript!

 
At 27/06/05 05:51, Hawkman said…

Looks good. What kind of quirks? :D

 

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21.6.05

Japanese Midterm Grades

So I got my midterms back today. Here are my results:
Subject      Grade
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Japanese     68% (D+)
Mathematics  88% (B+)
Science      80% (B-)
Geography    95% (A)
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AVERAGE      85.25% (B)
As you can see, I did bad in Japanese. Why? Because I forgot some Kanji parts and Kanji in general. I also did bad on the essay (in Japanese!). Well, I'm still glad because I got the class high on Math and Geography ;)
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20.6.05

Movie at the Theatre

So today my family and I went to the local Theatre to watch “Howl's Moving Castle” or 「ハウルの動く城」. We watched it in Japanese with English subtitles. ’Twas good, even though we knew the story :D
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At 13/07/05 20:12, Katherine said…

Isn't Howl's Moving Castle the one where the little girl gets changed into an old lady, and then she forgets her age?

 

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19.6.05

DeskBrowse

I luckily became a beta tester for this very cool web browser, DeskBrowse, which is designed for speed. I love it. I set it as my Default Browser. But it has bad “links from external sources” support, so it's useless for that. Also, there is no bookmark support, no Cookie customisation, and other stuff I like. Oh well. I still love it; I really wish I could get a registered version after it becomes commercial!
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At 20/06/05 16:40, Anonymous said…

One word:
Firefox

 
At 20/06/05 18:17, Takumi said…

Firefox? I like it, it's cool, looks cool, has great external plugins, has support for mostly everything, and even has that nifty and useful Web Developer Toolbar.

But here's why I don't use it:
1. Widgets are Windows-ish.
2. Seems like a port, not like a native application.
3. Some image colours are weird.
4. Safari looks even better.
5. Safari feels faster (vaguely).

If I were to use a Mozilla product, I would use Camino. But Camino doesn't have that Web Developer Toolbar. The only reason I have Firefox on my computer is for Web Testing and Web Development.

 
At 20/06/05 19:50, Crypt-0078h said…

i agree with you zaudragon. i mean as much as i like camino it still crashes quite often and doesnt have a developer tool bar. if you want the best web developer web browser than just go with sunriserbrowser. ( http://www.sunriseborwser.com) its the best for it and its very fast. it could almost be used as my default. but currently i have no default do to all the browser im beta testing for people (ive currently got Flare, DeskBrowse, surferdude). over all i love deskbrowse the best but its defintaly missing some major features which you mentioned.

 
At 20/06/05 20:01, Takumi said…

Can you give me links to those browsers you mentioned? Not download (of course), but the info page. I looked at the SunriseBrowser site, but didn't like it much. The features are great, but utterly useless to me. Also, I hate the interface in that browser :D

 
At 20/06/05 20:26, Crypt-0078h said…

here the links. ill just say this flare is in early alpha, same with surferdude (is iindigo's web browser)

surferdude
http://iindigo3d.com/blog/?page_id=6

flare
http://grabberslasher.no-ip.com/flare

 

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18.6.05

Japanese Midterms Today

Well in Japanese School today, we had our midterms. Not just Japanese, mind you, but also Science, Geography, and Math. Worse subjects? Japanese and Science. Japanese I can do, but my Kanji skillz aren't top notch. Science is also hard; I can't remember everything! She literally tests us on EVERYTHING (well not literally, but psuedo-figuratively). It was hard, but I'm glad it's over.
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17.6.05

OK FINE!

I'll give you the link to the new Growl design. Look at it, give suggestions, and make sure you look at the About page ;)
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At 17/06/05 23:31, Anonymous said…

Two things:
1. Keep a persistent sidebar.

2. Make the icons smaller. Using large icons for links when you appear to have a primarily text based interface looks ... odd.

Other than that, it looks good!

 
At 17/06/05 23:46, Takumi said…

1. How? The border only goes down as far as the content does in the sidebar

2. Icons SMALLER? You mean that claw? I think the Download Icon is good…

 
At 18/06/05 10:04, Anonymous said…

Yeah the download button is good. What I mean by the persistent sidebar is you shouldn't have one with a link to the about page at one part, and then have the text go all the way across the screen in the next.

 
At 18/06/05 22:00, Takumi said…

Hmmm… so you're saying that the sidebar should go from the top? And that the content and sidebar shouldn't overlap? I see your point, but the former is supposed to STAY that way, and the latter is unfixable; I want the download image to be in the center of the whole page.

 

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16.6.05

Xcode 2.1

My father downloaded Xcode 2.1 for me today. We transferred it over to my computer with Ethernet. I immediately installed it and built a project. ERROR. I think it's because I still have the build products from a LONG time ago. It's a SVN checkout of Adium, just in case you wanted to know ;)
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15.6.05

Bleh…

I was bored today… but I got a new project! And a partner to do it with. We have to design a new site for Growl. It's not very good yet, but it's in the works. We're having trouble with transparency; we tried using .png but they won't work in MSIE, .gif isn't anti-aliased, and .tif doesn't work in most browsers (but it does in Safari).
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At 16/06/05 08:36, Hawkman said…

Try to design the site so that you don't actually need to use semi-transparent images - most of the time you can get away with a jpg or a gif with transparent areas only where it overlaps another object. In an ideal world we could use sexy .pngs, but it's usually easier just to fake it :)

 
At 16/06/05 12:32, Anonymous said…

That's pretty cool, how'd you land that job?

 
At 16/06/05 13:42, Takumi said…

Anonymous: I asked ;)

 
At 16/06/05 17:02, Anonymous said…

I'm just curious, Takumi, but are you personally designing the entire site, or is it a collaborative project. 'Cause you switched number in the middle of your paragraph.

 
At 16/06/05 19:53, Takumi said…

Anonymous #2: Good catch. I'll fix that. But it IS a collaborative effort. Over SubEthaEdit I might add :D

 
At 17/06/05 14:34, Anonymous said…

Nice.
Have you ever seen Ruby, particularly Ruby on Rails?
It's much, much better than PHP (i.e. cleaner syntax, lexical closures, and completely object oriented) and it makes it really quick to develop stuff. Sort of like Python, but Rails leans towards web/database applications. Have fun designing the site!

 
At 17/06/05 14:39, Takumi said…

Anonymous #3: I don't think our server supports Ruby. I kind of like PHP; it's close to C. And C is one of the languages where I have the most experience (not much ;) )

 
At 17/06/05 16:41, Anonymous said…

btw it's Will.

OS X and Linux both come with Ruby installed. Apache has a mod_ruby. I'd say that PHP's resemblance to the C syntax is a bad thing :) It's like they took the bad parts of the C and Perl syntax and mixed them together. At least C doesn't require you to preface variable with a dollar sign! It just seems like a massive kludge.

 
At 17/06/05 17:29, Takumi said…

$variable is something I hate. It gets really annoying.
Three more things:
1. This is an Apache server.
2. I'm unsure what the system is and if it has Ruby or not.
3. I don't know Ruby and I don't know where to learn Ruby.

 
At 17/06/05 17:45, Anonymous said…

I'll stop bugging you now :-)

Ruby can be found here:
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

And since you're smart, you might want to have a look at Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

Just check it out. It's very interesting, and a fun intellectual challenge to fully comprehend everything they have to say.

 

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13.6.05

Stayed Home…

Today was a “stay home” day. I did run down to the Library though. While going down to the Library, I had to go through a construction site. I've been through there before, but not when there were big trucks running. So I tried to go around, resulting in many back-and-forth movements. The fence I needed to jump was too flimsy, so I had to go back and around. I hated going through the construction site but I had to. I totally went a different way back. The book was Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land.
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12.6.05

Opera

Well I saw The Queen of Hearts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky today at the San Francisco Opera today. It was exciting and dramatic; I hope I get to see more operas in the future…
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11.6.05

Apple Logo Adiumy

This is my first try at a dock icon for Adium. It was made for Crypt from the Cocoaforge forums. He wanted an Adiumy with the original Apple logo colours, and I made it using nanovivid's Fixed Adiumies and Evan Schoenberg's Halloween Adiumy. Preview Download
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At 11/06/05 21:42, Crypt said…

thank you so much. the icons look wkd. you did it perfectly. thanx. im sure alot of other poeple will like them. Jon-Crypt

 
At 16/06/05 08:33, Hawkman said…

That's pretty cool!

 

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10.6.05

Yay!

Adium got a Special Mention for Best Use of Open Source in the Apple Design Awards! Yay! The eigth graders at my school graduated today and I ushered, too. Also, some Site News. The Copyright Notice is fixed to the bottom of every page.
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9.6.05

Fatigued… but Happy

Today was our last day of school. Well, I'm still going to school tomorrow and Saturday but hey, no more “official” school that is required. I'm all tired out after today; I need a good night's sleep. Feels weird though: foggy and rainy in June. Not normal some people say, but this is how I remember June in California… Fog is inevitable since it's always here at the Pacific!
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8.6.05

Math and Olympics

I saw my Geometry Readiness Test grade yesterday: 100%. I was startled; I never get 100% on math tests… Also, today we had a grade-wide Olympics. We were third out of seven teams. That's pretty good, eh? Well, tomorrow is our last day!
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7.6.05

Woah!

I slept 13 hours last night! 18 to 7! That's a lot… so, I can't sleep quite yet ;) I won the Howard Smith Award at Head Royce School today, and I was bewildered. I didn't think that a new student would win a prize like that… From the Middle School Award Desctiptions:
The Howard Smith Award is given to the seventh grade student who best represents Howard Smith's high standards of character, commitment, and service. Mr. Smith was the founding Head of the Middle School at Head-Royce.
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At 08/06/05 06:11, Hawkman said…

What's the prize for?

 
At 08/06/05 10:07, Anonymous said…

prise is not a british spelling, do you mean prize?

 
At 08/06/05 16:22, Takumi said…

You're right; “prise” is the verb…

 

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5.6.05

*Yawn*

Today, I had an orchestra performance; I think we were really good. And when I got home, my sister watched Tuck Everlasting so I did as well. Not as good as the book; I think it was pretty bad…
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2.6.05

Heh…

Today was such a boring day… nothing much to talk about… But I did have the Geometry Readiness Test today. Too easy. Wow, I thought that it'll be hard! I think that Calculus got me obsessed with hard math.
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At 04/06/05 21:07, katherine said…

nerd.

not like that's a bad thing.

 

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