More Java & TextMate [Updated]

A while ago I wrote a short post (here) about some additions that I had made to TextMate in order to improve it’s compiling of Java applications, I had made the changes because I had started programming in Java at university and wasn’t happy with the way that TextMate handled the files. In the post I promised a follow up post detailing some other improvements I had made to the Java bundle, finally, that post is here, sort of.

I’ve made so many changes to variou…

Using rFlickr

I said it was coming and here it is, my little tutorial on how to use the rFlickr Ruby on Rails gem to create a photograph section like the one on my own website. The first thing to note is that pretty much all of the options available in the Flickr API (here) are available for use in rFlickr due to the fact it is all based around XML. There is a laborious process of configuration to go through, however, to make everything work, but once this is done y…

Scheduling & Photos

Things appear to be moving along more quickly than expected this week, I posted my main application iSyncIt and the My Book Icons on a few forums and the Apple software website and suddenly the visits to my website have rocketed from 200 a day up to 700 hits or more a day. Not as massive as some websites but it’s certainly an incentive for me to do some more work.

After many requests I have started to implement a more suitable scheduling system in iSyncIt, I added the original system for people that change their c…

Quick Update

There has been a quick redesign of the caching system behind the website, this means that the cache has had to be cleared. Pages may be a little slow to load for the first time as the website cache is slowly regenerated, the search spiders help with most of the regeneration. Now the problem has been fixed you may also see slightly longer loading times on the AJAX page elements such as the archive, login and live search on the right hand side of the website.

Thanks for your patience, check back soon.

It’s Almost Complete

Today I’ve added what I believe are the final touches to the website back end. The main change is that I have finally been able to enable caching fully so the website will run much, much faster and reduce the load on my hosts server.

I thought in this post I had also better explain the architecture of the website and its caching a little bit for other people that would like to write a Ruby on Rails system for themselves. The website structure is based primarily on the 4 sections you can see in the navigation bar a…