I’m not sure if some reviewer at Apple is trolling me or not, but literally within an hour of yesterday’s post, Balthisar Tidy went live. This means, of course, that Balthisar Tidy Classic, Balthisar Tidy (web distributed version), and Balthisar Tidy
Balthisar Tidy and Balthisar Tidy Classic versions 4.3.0 are now available. Grab your copy at the source of your choice:
I’m sorry it’s been more than a year since my last post or any sign of an update. Life’s been busy with a one and half year old (then), and is still busy with a three year old (today). Balthisar Tidy’s first Git commit makes it old enough to drink in…
Balthisar Tidy and Balthisar Tidy for Work versions 4.2.0 are now available. Grab your copy at the source of your choice:
As…
Balthisar Tidy and Balthisar Tidy for Work versions 4.1.4 are now available. Grab your copy at the source of your choice:
As…
Balthisar Tidy and Balthisar Tidy for Work versions 4.1.1 are now available. Grab your copy at the source of your choice:
As…
Hi everybody! Balthisar Tidy and Balthisar Tidy for Work versions 4.1 are now available in all of the usual locations:
The complete…
There are lots of tutorials explaining how to bundle a Java application as a macOS application, but there aren’t really any that explain how to bundle a Java application into an existing Objective-C or Swift Cocoa application.
This article describes…
Back in 2001, Apple released Mac OS X 10.1 “Puma”, which was regarded as Apple’s first stable release of what is today macOS. Although there had been a public beta (“Kodiak”) and a 10.0 (“Cheetah”) release, Puma was the true indication of where Mac OS…
Middlemac version 3.0 is available right now, and it’s an amazing, awesome update to Middlemac 2.0. Middlemac is now simpler to use than ever, and it builds real Apple Help Books that look and feel exactly like Apple’s own documentation. These Help Books…
Great news, everybody! Balthisar Tidy and Balthisar Tidy for Work version 4.0 are now available, and they offer W3C Validation built right into the application.
Grab one of them now:
I'm happy to announce that the web-distributed version of Balthisar Tidy version 3.7.1 is now available for download! Although there are no changes to the tidying workflow with this release, it does fix a couple of descriptions in the Preferences window…
One of the community pointed out that the sample BBEdit AppleScripts for Balthisar Tidy for Work had stopped working with the 3.7.0 release (thanks, Bill). This new release of 3.7.1 addresses this issue.
The Mac App Store should notify you shortly that…
In the interest of continuously improving Balthisar Tidy and Balthisar Tidy for Work, and in keeping up with the latest releases of HTML Tidy, I'm excited to announce that version 3.7.0 is now available in all of its incarnations.
Grab them now:
I’m pleased to announce a maintenance release of Balthisar Tidy and Balthisar Tidy for Work. This is primarily a maintenance released which updates the main engine to HTACG HTML Tidy 5.5.32, which offers several bug fixes and offers a couple of new…
There’s a new, officially released version of HTML Tidy! It’s been nearly a year since the last official release, but HTACG is happy to announce the immediate availability of HTML Tidy 5.4.0!
You can download a macOS disk image with a bona fide Mac…
After a several month hiatus due to my previously announced relocation from China, I’m very pleased to announce a maintenance release of Balthisar Tidy and Balthisar Tidy for Work.
Please feel free to update from one of the three usual sources:
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have just recently relocated from China to the United States. As such updates, support, and continued development of my projects such as Balthisar Tidy and Middlemac, and my participation in HTACG (who bring the world…
Today I'm moving back to the United State of America. Goodbye, China, and thank you for all of the lovely memories.
Today represents exactly five years since I arrive in China on 2011-July-11. I was initially offered a three year assignment by my company…
This release fixes a crashing issue on Mac OS X 10.10! We sincerely hope that all of our Mac OS X 10.10 users will pardon us for the less than thorough testing before we released Balthisar Tidy 3.5.0. This version fixes the crash on launch issue that…
Early this morning iTunes Connect (the Apple service we developers use to interact with the Mac App Store) had a nice surprise: mere hours after submitting Balthisar Tidy and Balthisar Tidy for Work version 3.5 for review, they are available now!
Middlemac version 2.0 is available now, and offers these new reasons to use Middlemac to build your Mac OS X help documentation:
gem install Middlemac and its
dependencies without complications.
The newest release of HTML Tidy (version 5.2.0) is available right now. If you’re using an older version of command line Tidy, we suggest that you upgrade now in order to take advantage of the new features and bug fixes.
It has a huge change log, but…
Balthisar Tidy and Balthisar Tidy for Work version 3.0.2 are minor upgrades to version 3.0.0, and they’re live in the Mac App Store and on our website right now.
Balthisar Tidy and Balthisar Tidy for Work version 3.0.0 are major updates that bring awesome, new features to your favorite tidying application, and they’re live in the Mac App Store and on our website right now.
Balthisar Tidy and Balthisar Tidy for Work version 3.0.0 are major updates that bring awesome, new features to your favorite tidying application, and they've been submitted to the App Store for review today.
Full details including a change log will…
A significant new feature of Balthisar Tidy (starting at version 2.2.0) is the ability to use it with a different version of libtidy than the one that it ships with. libtidy, of course, is the engine that Balthisar Tidy uses to actually perform tidying…
balthisar.com is pleased to announce that Balthisar Tidy version 2.2 is now available! It brings you bug fixes, new System Services, new Extensions, and a new version of the HTML Tidy core! Get it today!
Wow! It’s been a long time since updating this blog, but I’ve been busy with HTACG, the HTML Tidy project, and designing and implementing body in white production facilities for my employer (this is the activity that pays the bills).
This article headline…
Tidy for the command line (what we call Tidy for Mac OS X) is available for download immediately. This is absolutely free and done as a service to the Mac OS X community and is not related to Balthisar Tidy.
As usual it comes on a disk image that contains…
Balthisar Tidy 2.1.3 is released and available now in its usual three versions.
If you’re using any of the App Store versions already, you can…
The next release of Balthisar Tidy will include two awesome features: Services support and (for Yosemite and higher) Action Extension support. Given that Extensions require the containing application to be sandboxed, it finally came time to figure out…
Happy New Year 2015! I wish you will and hope that your year will be off to a good start with the release of Tidy for Mac OS X.
This is not a release announcement for a new version of Balthisar Tidy. Instead I am pleased to announce that I’ve packaged…
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.
After the oh, crap moment…
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…
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…
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 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 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…
October has been a month full of updates to “the little things.”
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
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…
Welcome to this month’s edition of random news! Here are a few updates for those of you who are following balthisar.com:
Updates should be coming shortly. At the very least, newly-compiled versions in Xcode 6 will probably make Tidy…
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…
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…
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…
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?
Although the new Balthisar Tidy will be familiar to long time users, it’s actually the…
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 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…
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 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…
If you don’t mind building from source, then these latest changes to Balthisar Tidy might be of interest to you!
While there’s arguably no need for printing from Balthisar Tidy, I decided to implement it anyway just to maintain compatibility…
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
This upgrade corrects several non-serious issues with 1.0.1 as well as adds some enhancements.
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…
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!
If you’ve been using Balthisar Tidy for a…
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…
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 had been a major issue for the 0.70 release. As you may know,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
It’s now easier than ever to follow us on Twitter! On both desktop and mobile versions of our site you can simply click on the pretty Twitter icon.
Not seeing anything? Then you’re probably using some type of blocker (like Ghostery) that’s hiding it…
RSS has been added to balthisar.com! Starting immediately you can subscribe to any or all of our RSS feeds, and your RSS reader will let you know when new content has been added. If you’re a little bit old school (like me) you may prefer to read your…
Due to popular demand, we’ve finally added social media sharing buttons to the website. We’re supporting the major social media networks, but we’ve also taken steps to ensure that our users’ web browsing habits are kept as confidential as possible by…
It’s been six years, but I’ve finally updated Balthisar Tidy for Mac OS X and released it to the public. Version 0.7 is now available in the downloads area, and you can read more about it on Balthisar Tidy’s homepage.
In case you don’t already know…
I’m Jim Derry of balthisar.com, and now I have a blog. You’re reading part of that blog now. Or you’re reading some content aggregator’s website. Hopefully you’re at the blog and not someone’s website, though. The story about why I (finally) have a blog…