Problems with Safari 4, scrolling and the colors of the page

Just right after the keynode I installed Safari 4 on my Mac. I've allready tested the beta for a cupple of weeks and was surprised about the speed. But after the the installation of the final release I recognized, that the color was fading while scrolling. In the worst case I got a black/white page. This problem is posted in an Apple Support Discussion.

The solution provided in the discussion seams to work for me.

If you'll get this problem, open Disk-Utility app, select your HD and press Restoring Permissions. Wait some minutes, restart Safari and that's it.

Cooler coding with Git on github.com

In the past I've choosen Google Code to host my open source code, but with DuckWiki, I started using Git hosted on github.com. Git is not the only distributed version control system and there are some things, which are not so cool, like there is no real native Windows support (but I kicked Windows out of my life for a while). Google Code provides Mercurial as an distributed version control system and they told the rest of the world how they implemented Mercurial on their system.

But at least their are two reasons for github.com.

• Private repos: If you pay, you'll get private repositories for non-open-source projects.
• Social coding: github.com provides a cupple of cool features like following other coders, watching their projects, etc. It makes it all feeling like a real community of coders.

Even the Grails team is using it.

So get on, create a account and follow me or duckwiki project on github.com

DuckWiki project started!

After the decision in the last days to start a new open source project, I've now created a repository on github.

Sure, there is no code in this repo but it will come soon. Some basic documentation will also follow in the next weeks.

So what is the project for?

Well it's name is DuckWiki and as you may expect, it will be a wiki software. It should be deveoped on top of the awesome Grails framework and make use of some cool new web technologies and architectures like RIA, REST, etc.

There are so much wikis, why another one?

Well the idea behind DuckWiki is not just creating a plain old wiki software to clone the Wikipedia. DuckWiki will be a wiki for creating DuckMaps instead of Wikipedia like articles.

DuckMap, what's that?

Everyone knows: It walks like duck, it looks like a duck, thus it's a duck, isn't it?

A DuckMap looks like a map and it behaves like one, thus it's one. But in general a DuckMap is like an instruction based on a cupple of maps (incl. maps or plans of buildings). You can think of it like a driving direction, but with much more details (even inside of buildings).

Sounds good?

Stay tuned.

The next big thing in my iTunes library

I just found this girl from the wonderful London. First I heard it on the local radio station and now I got on my iPod, yeah.

More about her.

SWT File Drag'n'Drop

Did you ever try to enable your Eclipse RCP application to handle file drops from the Explorer, Finder, or whatever your OS brings?
Here the solution:
http://alan.blog-city.com/swt_dragndrop.htm

Symbolic a Grails example

While I prefer Ubuntu as a Linux OS, there is a cool Open Source application available for administration of Fedora and RedHat Linux machines, called Symbolic. It's based on the awesome ils framework and it's defenitiv a good example, that an Open Source application can have a pretty looking homepage ;-)

Tiny URL for your app

It is a great idea to make big URLs more usable. TinyURL is such a service, who can do this for you. I use it a lot in Twitter, but what if you also want in your own app?

It's pretty easy since TinyURL provides a nice and small API.

http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=http://theurlyouwantmakesmaller

The result will be the TinyURL link, you'll want. Try this:

http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=http://www.timetoact.de/ttacms.nsf/id/EN_EmployeePages

It will create a TinyURL to a product presentation of my company. Copy the shown URL to your browser's address bar and you'll see, it just works.

To much snow for a wednesday

I can't belive, but this morning there were 10 cm of snow on my car. I like snow in my holydays, but today I'm working. Here some impressions from today's ride to work:

Enabling the cool developer tools in Safari

All web developers love Firefox because of the awesome Firebug Add-on. Sure, me too, but what is with all the other browsers?

Well, Microsoft will maybe offer real developer tools with IE 8. But for my favorite rendering engine WebKit (e. g. in Safari or Google Chrome), there are allready some cool tools availabe. On a Mac all you need to do is typing the following command into your Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitScriptDebuggerEnabled -bool true

Now open Safari's preferences and activate the develop menu on the advanced tab. That's all. You'll get a cupple of cool tools, which are as powerful as Firebug.

Here the network ananlysis of my iGoogle page:

Looking pretty nice, or?

More for Drosera (that's the name of the WebKit developer tool) can be found here.

Now it's official

Graeme has just posted it.
Congratulations to the G2One guys.