Another challenge when migrating balthisar.com from shared hosting to S3/CloudFront was deciding how to transition from the use of so-called “cool URIs” to the traditional URIs supported by Amazon Web Services.
Background
After the oh, crap moment…
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- Keyboard shortcuts! You can cycle through the values in nearly every option with the left and right cursor keys while the options list is focused.
- Now…
The CloudFront index.xml Challenge
balthisar.com is now served via CloudFront with an S3
backend. The transition has been fairly simply but not without its caveats, including handling
the RSS .xml feeds (the topic of this article), dealing with a
circular reference brain fart,
and deciding…
Avoid CloudFront Circular References
When migrating to CloudFront don’t introduce circular references. This should be obvious, but sometimes in the heat of battle, details get overlooked and everything comes crashing to the ground.
tl;dr: If CloudFront is going to front your www.example…
Balthisar Tidy 2.0.3 Bug Fixes. Available now on App Store
User Feedback Part 2: About Mac OS X Document Icons
As in the past, I like to address public user feedback and how it influences Balthisar Tidy.
User Bucky Junior left a review titled, “This program made undesired changes to my system icons.” Selected excerpts and responses are below.
I opened two…
Balthisar Tidy 2.0.3 Bug Fixes. Available now for download; coming soon on App Store
Balthisar Tidy 2.0.3 introduces several bug fixes and introduces one new feature. It’s available now in the downloads section, and will be available soon on the Mac App Store. If you’re already using Balthisar Tidy, you’ll be automatically notified of…
Middlemac Makes Mac Help Easy
Middlemac is the new help building system for Mac OS X applications. It takes all of the frustration out of configuring Apple Helpbooks so that they work properly with your Mac applications, and features multiple target and multiple features support…
Updates 3: AppleScript Samples, Tidy for Yosemite
October has been a month full of updates to “the little things.”
AppleScripts
Perhaps the largest distinction between Balthisar Tidy and Balthisar Tidy for Work is the latter’s support for AppleScript. However without buying Balthisar Tidy for Work
Updates 2: Manuals Available, Site Changes, Chinese Holiday
I’m happy to have had time to take advantage of the Chinese National Day Holiday in order to make some updates to the website that have been some time coming. Although the National Day is only a single day (01-October), the holiday itself is seven days…
Updates: Tidy, Site, Travel
Welcome to this month’s edition of random news! Here are a few updates for those of you who are following balthisar.com:
Balthisar Tidy
Updates should be coming shortly. At the very least, newly-compiled versions in Xcode 6 will probably make Tidy…
Use your electrical gear overseas
Overseas travel offers a lot of opportunities to meet new people, try new food, and learn more about some other part of the world than you can in books and websites, whether you choose to travel for vacation, to visit family, work on a social program…
Eliminating the Overkill
balthisar.com is now running a completely static website generated with Middleman. After switching to Middleman in order to simplify the development of Balthisar Tidy’s comprehensive help file, I realized that static websites didn’t have to be difficult…
Introducing Balthisar Tidy for Work
I wanted to take a few minutes to introduce Balthisar Tidy for Work to you, including a description of the features that make it different from the standard Balthisar Tidy, as well as take some time to explain why I’ve decided to charge a price for it…
What’s New in Balthisar Tidy 2.0?
As already announced, Balthisar Tidy version 2.0 is available. So, what’s so new that we jumped from a version 1.5 all the way to a major version 2.0?
Major Rewrite
Although the new Balthisar Tidy will be familiar to long time users, it’s actually the…
Balthisar Tidy 2.0 released!
Both Balthisar Tidy and (introducing!) Balthisar Tidy for Work are available right now! As always, Balthisar Tidy is a free release for everyone, with no strings attached. Stay tuned for another article soon about Balthisar Tidy for Work.
There are…
Balthisar Tidy 2.0 coming very soon!
Balthisar Tidy version 2.0 has been submitted to the App Store, and should be available very soon both here and in the App Store.
If you’re only following us on the blog, it might appear that we’ve been rather lazy lately. However if you head over to…
Balthisar Tidy 1.5 now in the App Store
Apple has released the 1.5.0 update to Balthisar Tidy in the App Store. If you’re using the Store Version of Balthisar Tidy you should receive a software update notification soon. If you’re not using Balthisar Tidy yet Get it now from the App Store or…
Balthisar Tidy 1.5 sports awesome new look
Balthisar Tidy 1.5 is released and available now from balthisar.com, and should be available in just a few short days from the Mac App Store.
The new version has a couple of usability enhancements (described below), but the first thing you’ll probably…
Balthisar Tidy from source gives you new features
If you don’t mind building from source, then these latest changes to Balthisar Tidy might be of interest to you!
Printing
While there’s arguably no need for printing from Balthisar Tidy, I decided to implement it anyway just to maintain compatibility…
Balthisar Tidy 1.1.0 now in the App Store; our commitment
Apple has posted the 1.1.0 update to Balthisar Tidy in the App Store. If you’re using the App Store Version of Balthisar Tidy you should receive a software update notification soon. If you’re not using Balthisar Tidy yet Get it now from the App Store
Balthisar Tidy 1.1.0 Released
This upgrade corrects several non-serious issues with 1.0.1 as well as adds some enhancements.
Balthisar Tidy now on App Store!
I’m happy to announce that Balthisar Tidy is available on Apple’s App Store!
You can read all about Balthisar Tidy on its homepage. It’s free of charge, free of advertisements, and free and open source.
This is my first ever application posted on the…
Balthisar Tidy 1.0 Released to the Public
I’m proud to announce that Balthisar Tidy version 1.0 is available now! After 12 years of beta, sub-version-1 releases, I finally think that Balthisar Tidy is ready for general public acceptance!
What’s New
If you’ve been using Balthisar Tidy for a…
Integrate Sparkle Software Updater with your CakePHP Site
The JDSparkle plugin for CakePHP makes it easy for Mac developers to integrate Sparkle’s update and system profiling API with your CakePHP website, and it’s available now on github.
While developing the next release version of Balthisar Tidy (currently…
Balthisar Tidy on Github has new features
I’ll package it soon after some more testing, but if you’re interested in some new features in Balthisar Tidy, then build it from the source on Github.
File Encoding Helper
File encoding had been a major issue for the 0.70 release. As you may know,…
Tidy 0.72 fixes file encoding issue
I was proud of the changes that I’d made to Balthisar Tidy in the long, long, long awaited 0.70 release, especially some of those to fix some file encoding issues. How embarrassing that these changes were broken and didn’t work at all.
I’ve just posted…
Not lazy; new stuff for you coming soon!
balthisar.com is a labour of love. Love of learning, love of creating, love of doing things, that is. Sure, there are some unobtrusive Google ads to the right (big screens) or bottom (small screens), but I only get a hundred dollar check every year or…
Some random notes about Balthisar Cascade
Balthisar Cascade has been around since about 1996 or so — I’m not even sure any more!
It has a somewhat interesting history. Balthisar Cascade was the first CSS2 editor in the world. Anywhere. You know: dedicated editor. I don’t mean it’s older than…
Syntax Highlighting for CakePHP, updated cakephp_geshi helper
I’ve updated my fork of Mark Story’s cakephp_geshi plugin. The two biggest changes are
syncing to the upstream repository, as well as reintroducing the ability to use the geshi.php
configuration file for backwards compatibility with existing installations…