• Introducing info.vim

    There is a new project up at the Workshop: info.vim, a Vim plugin which implements a complete reader and browser for info documents from within Vim. This is similar to the standalone info program or the Emacs info mode.

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  • Rewriting the Workshop

    At this point I could start to make rewriting my website an annual tradition. There have been a number of little details that have been rubbing me the wrong way for almost a year now; the biggest one was the navigation bar on sub-sites like the Grid Framework product site. There were also accessibility issues relating to the lack of a proper HTML document outline and the use of JavaScript.

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  • Introducing IPS-Tools

    I found myself needing a program to apply binary patches in the IPS file format and I was really disappointed that there are no proper Unix programs for that purpose available. So I set out to make my own, but instead of just applying patches it would be a complete suite of tools to handle all IPS-related tasks.

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  • Highlighting `NSImageView` the right way

    Recently I have been working on a small Cocoa app and one of the things I needed to do was highlight an NSImageView when the user is hovering above it while dragging a file. You would think that it's a very simple task, and you would be right, but judging by some of the things on the internet it looks like an unsolved problem.

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  • Introducing NTFS-Clone

    This is a very useful project I had written quite a while ago at work and recently found collecting dust on my hard drive. It lets you create perfect 1:1 copies of NTFS hard drives on Unix. The problem with every software I had come across was that it would copy the data, but that wasn't enough, so we had to run Windows repair on every single drive.

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