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Sending custom emoticons with Adium – Part III

For all the lazy fan of my work, I’ve updated my patched version to the lastest Adium 1.4 from hg. It’s tagged Adium 1.4b18 and the build date is today, 30th June 2010.

As before, you can download the binary file, or the patch file:

• Adium 1.4b18 + Emoticon Patch v2 (MD5: 49c02415423704c3323c113f46a5b5b0);
• Emoticon Patch v2 .diff file;

BClock – Version 1.10

A new version of BCLock is online:

Version 1.10 (2010/04/03):

• Enhanced column layout for better readability;
• Added help button that links to a online tutorial on how to read a binary clock;
• Added version number on preference pane

You can download it here.

NSMenuExtra – working with undocumented APIs

After reading this article on how to build a SystemUIServer menu, I gave it a try, and built a cute menulet. Doing so, I bumped into some issues and I thought it would be nice to have a full step-by-step and up to date tutorial with source code attached.

BClock – On Binary clocks and their usefulness

I’ve always loved the idea of a clock which is hard to read (really? Yeah.. really!). Hard to read as in binary-coded-digits-hard-to-read. A few months ago, I found this cute menulet for OS X but it always bothered me that I couldn’t cmd+click&drag it around and put it next to the normal clock. It’s a shame! The clock has to be the first thing on the right in any menu bar of every computer in the whole world. I had to do something! How would I make the tormenting, screaming demons in your head go away otherwise?

Sending custom emoticons with Adium – Tests

This is the third of three related post documenting my custom emoticon patch for Adium. You can find the others here:

• Patch requirements;
• Class and interface design;
• Performed tests (this post).

The test cases are divided into two categories, depending on the section of the GUI used to interact with the custom emoticon subsystem.

Sending custom emoticons with Adium – Classes and interface

This is the second of three related post documenting my custom emoticon patch for Adium. You can find the others here:

• Patch requirements;
• Class and interface design (this post);
• Performed tests.

As said in the previous post, the library code for sending custom emoticons is already present in Adium thanks to libpurple. What’s left to do is bubble it up from libpurple.framework to Adium’s GUI.

Sending custom emoticons with Adium – Requirements

I’m starting today a review of my custom emoticon patch for Adium 1.4. Together with my informal review, I’d like to write down some formal documentation of the process:

• Patch requirements (this post);
• Class and interface design;
• Performed tests.

PHP – date() [function.date]: ERROR on OS X

If you have enabled php5 support on Snow Leopard modifying the file at “/etc/apache2/httpd.conf” uncommenting the line:

#LoadModule php5_module        libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

you might get in trouble using php due to a misconfiguration of php.ini.

Sending custom emoticons with Adium – Part II

I’ve made some enhancements to the first version of my adium patch for sending custom emoticons. There are two main improvements: