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Site history

17th April 2025

Noted that I have busy on the RISC OS Open site; issues with Add Folder Icons resolved thanks to bug fixes made in Sequoia.

11th October 2024

Added a general note about Bus Panda and Add Folder Icons on current OS releases from Apple.

30th June 2022

Version 2.8 of Bus Panda has been released.

16th November 2019

Version 2.4 of Bus Panda has been released.

21st September 2019

Version 2.3 of Bus Panda has been released.

15th January 2019

New job :-)

10th April 2018

Announce availability of v3.0.4 of Add Folder Icons, updating its main page and adding tarballs for v3.0.0, v3.0.2 and v3.0.4.

23rd October 2017

Added "still here" notice to Home page and updated Bus Panda version information. Wildcard SSL certificate updated as the old one was due to expire; three years on this, so it needs renewing in 2020.

29th March 2016

Add Folder Icons version 3.0.2 has been submitted to the App Store with enhanced AppleScript support and exmaple Finder toolbar droplets available to download from its web page.

17th March 2016

Add Folder Icons version 3.0.0 has been approved and is available from the Mac App Store.

12th March 2016

A very much overdue update to Add Folder Icons, now at version 3.0.0 and awaiting Mac App Store approval.

16th January 2016

Bus Panda is now available from the App Store :-)

10th January 2016

Added "what" and "why" sections to the Bus Panda page, giving some insight into why the app was written.

Updated the web site template engine internally so that it reads files with a 2014 or later year in the New Zealand timezone, rather than the UK.

7th January 2016

Another year and a bit without an update but things continue to be busy in New Zealand and, at long last, I've finished an iOS app for Wellington bus users called Bus Panda - hopefully coming to the App Store soon!

9th November 2014

Over a year without an update isn't great. Made a note on the Home page about emigration and updated SSL certificates. Not the most exciting update ever after such a long break...!

16th October 2013

TrackRecord v2.24 released.

29th March 2013

TrackRecord v2.0 released.

21st February 2013

"I'm still here" update text on home page.

7th August 2012

Version 1.13 of SwiftJPEG is now available.

31st July 2012

A year of few updates... Then got a long-delayed approval for Add Folder Icons v2.1.0.

13th April 2011

Finally added a ‘how to play’ section to the SuperChain page and shuffled some of the content around to finish it all off, rather than relying on the application help as previously.

12th April 2011

The source code to Add Folder Icons v2.0.1 is finally available.

8th April 2011

Long overdue overhaul of the Web design page.

7th April 2011

Finally remembered to update the Add Folder Icons page to accurately reflect the current Mac App Store version of the application (2.0.1, submitted March 23rd, approved March 31st).

10th March 2011

Made the contact details for Add Folder Icons even more obvious.

9th March 2011

Added a link to my StackOverflow profile in the Home page sidebar. Made the contact details for Add Folder Icons more obvious.

4th and 5th March 2011

Add Folder Icons has been approved for and is now available from the Mac App Store.

3rd March 2011

As a temporary measure prior to Mac App Store approval, released Add Folder Icons v2.00 in a Zip file (the version without the auto-updater included).

Corrected a link to ashmoves.com on the web design page.

18th February 2011

Grammar and HTML fixes for the Hub documentation.

17th February 2011

Further tweaks to the Hub documentation. Improved the Add Folder Icons page with more screenshots and information.

16th February 2011

Finally got around to finishing off the Hub documentation in relation to some work being done for RISC OS Open Limited. It's only a few years late...!

15th February 2011

Add Folder Icons version 2 is coming soon! Updated the site accordingly.

31st January 2011

Updated the price comparison site exclusions in the search box on the 'more stuff' page. Made some small corrections to the Hub documentation.

17th January 2011

Updated the link to JM on the music page and changed the copyright range on Powerline from 2003-2008 to 2003-2010 to reflect the date range of tracks currently present on the album.

13th December 2010

Big update to the galleries and panoramas sections. Added a software page for a tool to work around JAlbum stripping ICC profiles from images.

9th September 2010

Updated the web design gallery following completion of various web projects over summer.

31st May 2010

More tweaks for the Facebook badge, loading it over a secure connection so that browsers don't complain about a mixture of secure and insecure resources.

17th May 2010

Tiny tweak to home page HTML to make it valid - added an ALT attribute to the Facebook badge image - and altered the URL to keep track of changes on the Facebook side.

11th April 2010

Released final version of "Traversal".

22nd February 2010

Updated the ReverbNation audio player on the music resources page.

13th February 2010

Moved the Hipposoft logo on the software page into the sidebar - it looks much better there.

10th February 2010

If a page is being fetched over HTTPS but even so much as a single image comes over HTTP, Firefox gets angry and claims that the site is not secure. The updated Home page sidebar from early January linked directly to the official logos from various third party sites, but these do not all support HTTPS fetching. Apart from the dynamically generated Facebook badge, I've taken local copies of the images to work around the problem and updated the sidebar accordingly.

3rd February 2010

Added a Hipposoft logo to the software page since hipposoft.pond.org.uk currently redirects to that location. Not entirely happy with the aesthetics but it's better than nothing for now.

29th January 2010

Released YUI Tree v1.1.0.

23rd January 2010

Quietly updated YUI Tree to v1.0.2.

21st January 2010

More specific information about the Ruby version required for TrackRecord - it was brought to my attention that Array.count was introduced in Ruby 1.8.6, but TrackRecord does not rely on this and will work on 1.8.5 (possibly earlier too, but 1.8.5 is the earliest tested version).

3rd January 2010

Changed the list of links to LinkedIn etc. into a sidebar panel on the Home page.

31st December 2009

Released SuperChain version 1.00 and fixed a tiny typo in some image ALT text on the TrackRecord page.

14th December 2009

Released YUI Tree version 1.01 with clarified API documentation and minor fixes to cope with varying datatypes in node IDs. Corrected a couple of minor typing errors on the TrackRecord page.

10th December 2009

Released TrackRecord version 1.51, a small update that fixes a couple of important bugs discovered (in accordance with Murphy's Law) just after 1.5 was released.

9th December 2009

Released the YUI Tree plugin, version 1.0.

7th December 2009

Released TrackRecord version 1.5.

14th November 2009

Add Folder Icons v1.50 released, built for 32-bit and 64-bit Intel systems and using Grand Central Dispatch to process folders in parallel.

31st October 2009

Add Folder Icons v1.21 released, compatible with Snow Leopard.

20th August 2009

Add Mac and Universal logos to software packages listed in the OS X “Software Showcase” in accordance with the Mac OS X Universal logo usage guidelines. The Mac OS X Universal logo license agreement was filled in and signed on the 18th and posted yesterday. The Apple instructions for usage seem to show that it is not necessary to wait after posting before using the logos; indeed it may be important that they are already in use by the time Apple receives the signed copy of the licence agreement in order to verify that the usage is compliant upon receipt.

17th August 2009

Tweaks to some pages in the software section including a new OS X “Software Showcase”. Introduced some new supporting styles for captioned images used by the ABC VideoRoll page and a print-specific stylesheet.

16th August 2009

Released Add Folder Icons v1.20 and new Folder Icons Quick Look software.

10th August 2009

Small tweak to the web design information page, which still had some content hanging over from its previous life as part of the "more" page.

9th August 2009

Updated the photo gallery and wallpaper sections. Added new panoramas section.

8th August 2009

Long overdue overhaul to the site template with a few navigation changes here and there.

15th/16th June 2009

Released the Preset Region E.P. and updated various other music pages.

11th June 2009

Meet Doorstop Sheep!

7th May 2009

Fixed near-trivial HTML error on the Add Folder Icons page.

8th February 2009

New music track released - "Fifth Time Lucky" is available from the Powerline album listed in the music section.

2nd February 2009

Released Add Folder Icons for Mac OS X Leopard or later.

22nd January 2009

Added a 'How To' style page describing workflow in iLife '08 when working with interlaced HD video.

18th December 2008

Added web design information to the "More!" page.

16th November 2008

Corrected and updated dates on the Powerline album page.

11th November 2008

Added links to the TrackRecord RubyForge project page in the TrackRecord section.

15th October 2008

Released TrackRecord v1.0.

26th August 2008

Further updates to the links on the music index page.

15th August 2008

Added a streaming player to the music index page using the ReverbNation widget from the Pond ReverbNation page. Updated the artist, hardware and software links list.

5th May 2008

The first new music track for a few years is now online for the Powerline album in the music section.

23rd December 2007

Mentioned Zurich pictures on the Home page.

9th December 2007

Added Zurich pictures to the Galleries and Wallpaper sections.

17th November 2007

Updated Hub gem information with instructions on how to build the gem before its installation.

28th September 2007

Updates to the Hub documentation.

1st August 2007

Released SwiftJPEG v1.11 and, quickly afterwards, a small bug fix in version 1.12.

25th June 2007

Added a simple but useful web search form to the More page. A few new rowing pictures in the galleries.

13th May 2007

New Hub documentation. Minor updates in a few other places. New 'hub' and 'hipposoft' subdomains.

17th February 2007

Big update to the galleries and wallpaper sections. New albums, new gallery images and lots of new wallpapers, all under a new JAlbum theme.

8th December 2006

Added a bit of information about the RCVSWeb Rails application.

1st December 2006

Fixed broken e-mail address links in various music pages.

23rd October 2006

New page for the Hub Rails application.

21st August 2006

Updated the music page - Ampcast is long gone, so there's no point leaving links to it lying around.

9th August 2006

Credited origins of icon file used in the Ruby section.

8th August 2006

Corrected the page title in the Ruby section.

7th August 2006

Finally properly filled in the Ruby section's descriptions of the various files available.

14th July 2006

Added a new Ruby section.

27th Feburary 2006

All of my music from Ampcast is now available.

31st January 2006

Added a couple of modes to the StrongED page in the software section.

30th January 2006

Started new wallpaper section.

19th November 2005

The random gallery thumbnail selector code has been added to the template engine, so the home page gets a selection of random images each time it is reloaded.

18th November 2005

Updated the galleries with better category names, some new categories, and some new pictures within existing categories. It's all running under the site template system now, too.

17th November 2005

Introduction of the site template system, long overdue. Created the history page to go with it.

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