July 2009

The Bag-men of Kennedy Bonds?

Submitted by Leigh on Sat, 18/07/2009 - 11:40

Politics

There seems to be more intrigue in the situation of dollar stability. The financial news outlet Bloomberg reported about a month ago (this completely missed me) the story of two Japanese businessmen arrested in Italy for trying to smuggle $134B in U.S. Treasury bonds into Switzerland.

First draft of PackageMaker v3 document

Submitted by Leigh on Tue, 14/07/2009 - 20:19

Software Development

Commit by leighsmith :: r3604 /trunk/MusicKit/Utilities/Packaging/MusicKit.pmdoc/ (76 files): (link) First draft of PackageMaker v3 document

Generating Apple HelpViewer documents from DocBook

Submitted by Leigh on Sun, 12/07/2009 - 23:09

Software Development

Apple's HelpViewer application is quite nice for users to read documentation for their application. The help documentation for each application is authored in HTML, with a couple of extra META tags.

However this is less than ideal if you also want to provide a printed version of the documentation (i.e. PDF), or other file formats, or, as in the case of the MusicKit, we wanted to adopt a common documentation format, without having some documentation authored in RTF, some in HTML etc.

G-202 conversion

Submitted by Leigh on Sun, 12/07/2009 - 22:20

Music Production

Removed defunct opensourcedirectory listitem, cleaned up HIP url

Submitted by Leigh on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 17:49

Software Development

Commit by leighsmith :: r3603 /trunk/MusicKit/Documentation/MusicKit_README.sgml: (link) Removed defunct opensourcedirectory listitem, cleaned up HIP url

MusicKit V5.6.0 now available

Submitted by Leigh on Sun, 05/07/2009 - 20:03

Software Development

After a period that is much longer than I had hoped for, a new release V5.6.0 of the MusicKit is now available. The change log is huge, but the highlights are:

Documentation on building the MusicKit has been improved.

Now builds on MacOS 10.5.X Intel or PPC and GNUstep.

No longer requires external libraries to build. The system will be built with reduced functionality (mostly impacting the SndKit) if the dependent libraries are not installed.