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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.

17th November 2005

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

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.

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.

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