I have written a short article on the design of SwordSearcher Bible Study Software — this is an article I hope will help newcomers understand a bit about how SwordSearcher is supposed to work in their Bible study.
Month: May 2005
Here is a really cool optical illusion.
My Mac Adventures, Part 1 and 1/2 (sort of)
Since I am keeping busy with programming on the Mac, I haven’t had much time to update my progress on the blog. Much apologies to those of you who have emailed me asking me for more information.
Anyway, I wanted to write a small update.
On Windows, I use a program called Wnbrowse to view the contents of any file on my hard drive in hex or ascii. This is quite useful, as I design my own data file formats for SwordSearcher and like to look at the raw data in a file I have generated while doing so.
I had to find an equivalent for OS X because Finder (the Mac equivalent of Windows Explorer) doesn’t include a “hex viewer.” After a little searching, I found Separator. It’s not quite as good as Wnbrowse for my use (I like how Wnbrowse lets me show any file as if it were a text file), but is good enough. Until I found this program I was doing things a really awkward way: I would use my Windows machine to browse my Mac hard drive and use Wnbrowse to view the files I wanted to see over the network. Obviously, using a native Mac program is a better solution.
Back from Florida; working on Mac stuff
Last weekend we took a road trip to Florida to visit my sister as she graduated from college. I’ve posted two “non-vactiony” photos from the trip.
It was a round trip of about 3500 miles. That’s a long way to drive in a week when you are not a trucker.
Hey, I know I haven’t update my Mac Adventures yet. Well, the good news is that I am now into the deep coding of SwordSearcher for Mac. So I will have some more insights to blog pretty soon. Apparently there are quite a few people watching this blog for that information, if my email is any indication.