It has only been a few days though, so I’m willing to give things time to set in. Here are problems that make the current preview quite unusable:

• “Navigate to Counterpart” shortcut combination no longer works (cmd-opt-up).
• Designating shortcut keys gives no feedback if there are multiple assignments of the same key. It just chooses the first in the list and uses it.
• You have to manually open new tabs! This leads me to believe that apple don’t understand how tabs are supposed to work, which baffles me as they usually understand user interface paradigms. Is the xcode team a bit out of touch?
• Trying to bind “New Tab” to cmd-t fails. It seems there is a shortcut hard-wired to this key.
• Project bookmarks are gone. In the migration guide it mentions their presence in the Organizer, but following instructions only gives help document bookmarks, not project bookmarks.
• There is even less feedback while building (used to see “x of x files compiled”, now it’s just a progress bar). This is quite an annoyance for large projects.

• Has problems saving project file to disk.  Should at least give an option to overwrite.

• I can’t seem to find where the colour scheme configurations are stored.  Have yet to take the time to manually recreate my pastels-on-dark theme because of this.
• Auto-completion of overrides no longer works correctly in classes which inherit; it seems to only show overrides from the base (NSObject/NSView) class.  This is a real hit, and actually makes working in the current build of xcode 4 a chore.

Then there are things I think should be added in order to bring xcode into the 21st century, which have still not been addressed:

• There is still no automated handling of IBOutlets in a way that generates code-behind.  Microsoft have mastered this over the years, and while that may be an unfair comparison, MonoTouch also provides this functionality on the iPhone platform via their MonoDevelop IDE!
• There is still no automated/shortcut method of making an instance variable, property, and @synthesize in one go.
• The handling of linking delegates/outlets in the “interface builder” mode is still as painfully ugly as ever.
• Files are still not automatically sorted alphabetically in project navigation pane.  I honestly don’t understand this.
• Light-on-dark anti-aliased text still looks horrible.  Okay, so this is an OS-level problem, but it’s my one biggest gripe so I had to tag it on .

I will be updating this post as I find more issues. If anyone has an obvious solution which I have overlooked to any, please fill me in!

Anyway, for those who are as slow as me on the uptake, google recently announced (around 2 weeks ago) exchange protocol support for mail, adding to their existing calendar and contacts push-sync functionality.  I’m not sure if anyone else will be as ecstatic as me on hearing this, but for the benefit of the doubt I thought I should post it here.

If you already have google sync setup for contact/calendar as I did, it is as simple as flicking an iSwitch.  Otherwise, read here for full instructions.

やっぱりどれだけ「これ書くと良いね!」と 思う内容があっても、時間の問題なんですから・・・ごめんなさい！

では、 今度こそチャットモンチーの話になってしまうんですが

新作DVD「チャットモンチー・レソトラン・ デザート」ということで、ライブの方の映像は割りと少ない代わり、ボーナス映像は長い

まずはライブ映像の感想なんですが、湯気の演奏が2回も入ってて良かったです！湯気ってすごくいい曲なのに、今までライブでの映像を見たことはともかく、Bサイドの曲ですから（僕は未だアルバム以外持ってないので・・）CDクオリティーで聞いたこともないので、感動したんです。

告白の2曲を見て、生で聴いたときの思い出 で胸がいっぱいです。
特に、8cmのピンヒールは感激してしまいます。

でもなんといっても、DVDの一番良いところはボーナスの1人1企画のえっちゃんの代々木公園の路上弾き語りライブなんです。ウルフルズの曲をカバーして2曲続けて歌いました。僕にとって、両方も初めて聞いた曲なのにこんなインパクト感があるって、えっちゃんに限っているでしょう。あんな声はどこまで届けるですかね！

サムライソウル～エイエイオ～

You may notice it looks a bit prettier too .  Behind the scenes, it is also loading files in the background on separate threads, and gives you the ability to abort processing should it take too long.  Hopefully someone will find a use for this.

Download Here (17kb)

I can provide the source code on request (or you can just reflect it for yourself .  Use it as you wish.

ちなみに、参戦するチャットモンチーのライブは

5/19新潟県民会館 (Hall in Love Tour 2009)
5/26横浜BLITZ (いま一度ライブハウスを選択し申す！ツアー)

最初なのは一人に行くつもり（しかも初ライブ！）でちょっと不安ですが楽しんで行きたいと思ってます！

every time i see this i think i have a dead pixel.  microsoft sql management studio 2005 patched to latest service pack…

月を見て綺麗だねと言ったけど
あなたしか見えてなかった
あの光はね、私たちの闇を照らすため
真っ黒の画用紙に空けた穴～

Wai-con was a blast.  Click above for my photos, which will explain better than any words.

If you don’t know what MARC-8 is, stop reading here.

If you never wanted to convert from UTF-8 *to* MARC-8 (why the hell would you want to anyway?), stop reading here.

If you are happy with MarcEdit’s broken MARC-8 output, stop reading here.

If you are still interested, here is a .NET port inspired by the Perl MARC::Charset package to do unidirectional conversion.  Optimised for performance with multi-thread support for multiple input files.  Benchmarks to process around 80mb/s of text with 4 threads on a q6600 equiv.  The code (that you need to call) should be easy enough to understand.  No binaries provided, just build from source.

私の知らないところで傷ついてはいませんか？
誰も見えないところで泣いてはいませんか？

涙は人に見られて初めて形になるの
涙は人に見られて初めて輝きだすの
です

..and so another fun season of The Office comes to an end.

行け!　行け!　あの人のところまで

誰にも抜かれたくないんだ

風!　風!　背中を押してよ

I only ported the bspatch part over, so you’ll need to create the diff files using the original code (also available as a native windows c++ port here. The sharpziplib library is used for bzip2 stream handling, and only minimal files are included.  This makes for a very small binary (19,968 bytes).

Binary available here (pruned to smalled possible size).
Source code here.

While I haven’t benchmarked performance seriously, it should be near-equal to the native code.  There is no unsafe code used (although it can be employed very easily for a performance boost).

It will take two text input files, and give two outputs – one containing lines found in in1 but not in2, and vice-versa.  It accepts drag-drop for files and should be quite performant (two lists of 10,000 lines takes around 100ms on a p4 3ghz).  It should also scale quite well.

This was a 10-minute coding challenge.

“I got a bit annoyed at work without my music collection handy, so I decided to make a little request-based radio app up. Its all good to go, but will only handle about 6 people at once. Feel free to check it out here. It searches my full music collection, which is ~400gb of jpop/anime/game/misc music. You can place requests and they will be queued in order.

Depending on how it gets used, I will decide whether to put more time into it or not.”

osu! is my main focus and therefore this blog won’t see updates until I

a) quit my job and find a sudden influx in free time (of course this has the consequential financial problems )

b) give up on osu!.  uhuh, sure.

c) travel somewhere again.  travel is always a good time to sit back and share stories, right?

Anyways if you are actually reading this then you deserve a medal for having such dedication (or an rss reader still reading this feed).  If you want to see stuff which I’ve been working on in my free time, check out osu! directly, or my youtube page for related videos (both links to the right).

As a side note, I think the spambots owning up talkback responses outnumber my blogging 1×10^10:1 :/.

it didn’t feel that new in comparison – i think they maintain the old terminals so well you really wouldn’t even notice  the difference.  but they added a new and cool water feature.  the building’s roof also felt slightly modern, i guesss!

hm.. why does it feel like im burning.. yet its only 20 degrees? i can’t wait for the sun to come up ;(. if im not here later today you know what happened, anyway! look for a puddle on the ground somewhere between my house and workplace.

i’m not sure if its just an illusion but the moon seems bigger from perth! *looks up the moon’s orbit*

…

@4days in japan ;o

happy new year sixdaysago!

anyways! i am yet to find a day where i have been able to sit down in front of my PC and actually do anything serious… like fix a few outstanding bugs on osu!, or write up a few diary entries i’d like to expand on. or download that kouhaku special i managed to miss watching on new-years eve (some randoms attacked the huge plasma TV in our hostel the night before).

i finally got around to ripping the CDs i’ve bought this trip to flac! now its just a matter of getting my ipod and laptop in the same room to transfer them across. i’m happing to send the rips if anyone is interested, too .  oh, i also got otsuka ai’s birthday concert dvd, but its not as good as it was last year!  still not disappointed, though.

on the travel side of things – i’ve been putting a lot of time into taking and touching-up my photographs, and hope to post some more to my smallish flickr collection over the next week. you can check out the ones i took at winter comiket 2007 for the time being, though. i decided to swap to flickr from my own gallery just out of convenience – i tried a few other php galleries (gallery2 seemed to be the best) but they just don’t work as well as i would expect. maybe i should make one myself as my next project, haha.

i’ve been thinking of putting together a short travel diary digest with a bit of text on things i have experienced this trip that i feel like sharing. not sure if/when i’ll get around to doing this, but it will be a replacement for my lack of continuous blogging along the way. hell, there’s probably only two or three of you out there who would even care, but that’s never stopped me before .

hope everyone is having a great start to 2008. see you soon!

so i arrived on the 17th and spent a few days in himeji. i caught up on my anti-piracy policy by buying the CDs and DVDs from the past year that i felt like paying for (although i still have a few more i need to get) – i’ll post some pictures when i get back to where the cds are sitting. apart from meeting up with jetha, it was a very random coincidence that a guy from UWA was over staying with the host family that lives ~3minutes away. long story short, we spent the day in kobe at a place called “kachouen” (花鳥園) or “bird & flower park”.

they had a wide variety of different birds and a huuuge collection of crazy looking owls, as well as about 3 or 4 different styles of gardens. it was a really nice place and i wish i had my camera when i went (these photos were stolen from my host mum’s camera).

after catching an overnight bus from himeji to shinjuku on the 20th, i arrived with jetha in tokyo at around 6:30am, and checked into the hostel we are staying in. quite a nice place, but the elevator is the SLOWEST ELEVATOR I HAVE EVER USED. you have to queue a request on it about 4 minutes before you actually want to leave, otherwise you end up standing there for what feels like eternity. it is nice and clean here though, and we have met quite a few nice people.

while wandering around shinjuku last saturday, i stumbled on AI performing live for the 2008 olympics! was quite nice to see some live performing – after being denied tickets to the music station super live . unfortunately, the people in charge jumped in front of my camera before i was able to take a picture. i thought i was pretty well hidden too!

Tokyo Fantasia 2007 was the largest local christmas light show. there were tens of thousands of LEDs lighting up the dark tokyo skies in hibiya park… and two cats wondering how the hell they got on top of the billboard?! they were in a state of total confusion…

it was a really nice show and the picture above alone doesn’t do it justice, so make sure to check out the album when i get things sorted out!

and thats that for now. there’s a lot more stuff which i could talk about but for now.. owarinisimashou.

merry christmas to all.

so yup, i’ve booked my flight to japan for dec-jan.  it is during the peak season so i was  almost thinking about delaying it a few months to save money on the flight… but i really feel like going sooner rather than later, and avoiding the christmas heat (and enjoying a white christmas) should be worth it!

there has been a lack of updates here, yes.  time to blog when i’m writing code every spare minute of the day?  i don’t think so.  its a pretty monotonous life at the moment, and my sleep pattern is absolutely fubared, but the end results are worth it… and hopefully i can get things to a stable point sometime soon and take a bit of time off.

rararararaaaaaaaaah

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such an awesome song. makes me want to flyyyyyyyyyyy

got into some c&c3 action a couple of weeks ago, but either due to hidden EA copy-protection code or just crappy network code, it took around 1 hour to get six players into the same server.  i’d really like to get a few lan games of this going, but lans aren’t cool anymore apparently .

coding comes with binary productivity lately – sometimes i will get some really good progress going, other times i end up planning and thinking about logic problems and get nothing done at all.  needless to say, forward progress is being made, and i’d like to make a few public releases over the months to come.  i’m sure most of you already know the projects i am working on anyway, so i can’t surprise you with the releases .

work has been kind of a drag lately though, as it really owns my productivity for the rest of the night.  it is quite hard to keep up a routine of 18-hour coding days.. really feel like going travelling sooner rather than later, but that will come in time .

we recently got a new aerial installed on our roof (the last one was actually inside the roof, and also ancient).  its kind of nice upstairs, but with the 15+ metre cable to my room, the reception becomes barely watchable.  i tried installing a masthead signal amplifier, and while it did wonders for SBS/Ch31, it was actually degrading the VHF signal..  ok, so there IS nothing else worth watching other than SBS, but still!  I think I will get a powered signal splitter and give that a try instead.

also got some response from  amnet/tel$tra on my phone line.. which resulted in a telstra technician “fixing” my line which had a faulty earth link.  its still not perfect, but a lot better than before.  i think i still get some packet loss when a phone call comes through, but i can live with that.