Just a quick post to mention the release of High Priority 1.1, my menu extra that allows you to access, edit, create, and remove your iCal To Do items directly from the menu bar. Version 1.1 is a free upgrade to all users and features the following improvements:
Yesterday was the first day of my final semester here at Hamilton and while bittersweet, I’m both excited about this semester, as well as the fact that I’ll be graduating in the near future. Hamilton’s been a wonderful environment and a lot of fun has been had, but it’s time to move on and ultimately, at least for a little while, enter the real world. Plus, I’m closing out my time here with some great classes: Robotics, HR Management, and my Honors Thesis. I’ll probably write more about each as the time progresses…
Winter break was wonderful, as always. I spent three and a half weeks back home in Nice. The weather was cool but it was pretty much sunny everyday. It was great to be infused with French culture once again, taking long walks and generally spending some time with the parents and old friends. I’ve taken a lot more photos since the ones I posted in the gallery earlier and hopefully I’ll find a bit of time to go through the rest of them and post the better ones.
I’ve been surprised (and delighted) with the feedback I’ve received for High Priority. I’ve gotten a bunch of registrations (which always feels nice), but more importantly, I’ve had users write in with requests, comments, and general thank yous. It’s such emails that make writing software rewarding - knowing that someone else is finding your program useful. For anyone reading this whose looking to glean a couple of hints about what will be in the next version, I’ll give you a quick list: global shortcut to open the menu, ability to hide upcoming To Do items, ability to display due dates in the title, improved labelling, and a bunch of bug fixes. Not sure yet when version 1.1 will be released - most likely sometime around the end of this month. Well thats it for now, it’s late and I’ve got work tomorrow morning, as well as some reading and so forth. A bientot.
Well, steady progress has been made with my upcoming application, High Priority, and its now time for your help! If this is the first time you’ve heard me mention the program, you might want to read my previous entry for a description and the rationale behind it. Anyway, with the memory errors (double frees) and calendar parsing problems resolved, as well as pretty much all of the features I plan on implementing coded, it’s time for some testing.
High Priority Menu
I’ve been quiet over the past few days for a few reasons: I’ve been taking advantage of the warmer weather recently to get out of the house and take some photos, as well as catching up with some old friends. But most importantly, I’ve been diving head first into Xcode and Cocoa to work on a new piece of software that I’ve been meaning to write for some time: High Priority.
High Priority in Action (Sort by Priority)
What is High Priority? Perhaps it would be best to start off describing the application through a screenshot. In the photo above, you can see High Priority in action, displaying all of the To Do items I currently have in Apple’s simple to use calendar program, iCal. Take a close look at where the icon is situated in the menu bar. That’s right, High Priority is a menu extra meaning it can be moved around as you please. Moreover, if you don’t like it, you can simply command-drag it off the menu bar and presto, it’s gone.
Ah! It’s pretty difficult to rely just on public terminals to have access to the internet. Perhaps I’ve been spoilt at Hamilton and at home with instant-demand Internet. Anyway, today is the last day of WWDC and in fact, the last day I’m in San Francisco. I fly out tonight on a red-eye flight to head back to Syracuse, arriving hopefully at 9:30 AM tomorrow in sunny - but hot - Syracuse. Morning and afternoon plans seems to have already been made and I hope I have enough energy to make a half-decent attempt at staying awake and being interested in what we do!
Yesterday, Day 4, was an interesting day at the conference. I attended more sessions on Core Data and a few on Web Kit. Great technology that I’m eagerly awaiting to use. In the afternoon, we lined up around 4:15 PM or so to wait for the buses to Apple’s Cupertino campus. Mathieu and I were able to get on the first bus to the campus, and as such, were the first to the Campus Store. Last year, I remember waiting almost two hours to enter. This year, there was no wait. Of course, I didn’t buy anything (even though they had 25% off on iSights, Airport Extreme and Express products, and 15% off iPods). Actually, I really didn’t need anything - I just want my PowerBook back … fixed. After the obligatory reading of t-shirts and other Apple memorabilia, we headed inside to the center where there was plenty of food and drinks, and to our surprise, The Wallflowers. I was perhaps one of … twenty or so who actually knew who they were. They played a pretty good set for about an hour and it was entirely enjoyable. We then spent the rest of the time mingling, talking with slightly inebriated students and developers, and then escaping on one of the buses back to San Francisco.
Today’s been a pretty laid back day. This morning I went to two feedback forums and listened to Apple developer’s complaining. The first was on Core Data and Cocoa and the second was on a topic more to my interest, Human Interface Design. Good stuff being brought up and it gave Apple quite a bit to think about. Lunch was had and then we got to listen to a developer for Pixar’s in-house team. He showed off some clips, demoed some programs, and inspired us to “Go Create Something Beautiful.” Great. Afternoon sessions (at least the one that I went to so far) seem to be a bit of a bore. I’m currently thinking about spending a few hours walking around downtown to get my last fill of San Francisco. We’ll see. Anyway, hopefully I’ll post some photos soon when I get back to campus. Till later…
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