Archives for the Month of August, 2007

A GUI for Darcs Version Control

This is built with .Net 2.0 framework. Only bits are working at the moment.
Perhaps someone wants to port it over to Mono?

Building Python Extensions With ActivePython 2.5 And Visual Studio 2005

Actually, the title should be “you shouldn’t bother trying to build python extensions with Visual Studio 2005″. All sorts of complications arise and I haven’t got it working at all. Here’s some references if you enjoy a little self-flaggelation.
1) Make sure you understand manifests. Building DLLs will never be the same again! Richard Grimes has [...]

Resize Handles For Flex Applications

Marc Hughes’ article on how to add resizing object handles in Flex could do with a bit of link love. Searching for “resize handles flex” lands on some Google Adsense page.
Here are a few open source / free Flex component libraries (via Doug McCune’s Flex slideshow)

FlexLib
PaperVision Demo
PaperVision Project Site
as3corelib
FZip
Tweener
Flex/Flash Mouse Gesture Recognition
Metaphile - Java library [...]

Serving Static Repositories Using Mercurial

I have been playing with Mercurial for a little web project. It works fine locally, but when I tried to publish a static copy on my web host, it started playing up.
I was unable to clone the remote repository using:
hg clone static-http://www.redmountainsw.com/phpar/ new_local_dirname
I kept getting this message:

requesting all changes
adding changesets
transaction abort!
rollback completed
abort: integrity check failed [...]