{"id":2117,"date":"2003-11-08T18:56:07","date_gmt":"2003-11-08T21:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=651"},"modified":"2010-05-08T23:18:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T02:18:41","slug":"re-back-to-the-old-drawing-board-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/11\/08\/re-back-to-the-old-drawing-board-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Back to the old drawing board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Either <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/panther\">Panther<\/a> has an unusual number of hidden gotchas, or Murphy is singling me out for special treatment this time&#8230; perhaps both. <a href=\"\/xray\">XRay 1.0.7<\/a> is getting good reviews but users are also stumbling over several bugs &#8211; due, I&#8217;m sorry to say, to somewhat hurried testing. Details at the <a href=\"\/bb\/viewtopic.php?t=16\">1.0.7 discussion forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was figuring on spending this week and the next on reviewing the not-too-good plugin architecture; writing a few plugins which do new things is usually the best way to find out architectural limitations. Hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to close the last bug over the weekend and then start on that, but I&#8217;ll try to publish 1.0.8 as soon as I get at least two new plugins working.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, expect light blogging for the next weeks, as they say. In the meantime, if you&#8217;re an aspiring Mac OS Xshareware programmer, here&#8217;s excellent advice from <a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/\">Brent Simmons<\/a> (of <a href=\"http:\/\/ranchero.com\/netnewswire\/\">NetNewsWire<\/a> fame) about <a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/?comments=1&amp;postid=2690\">making money with shareware<\/a>. I seem to have lucked out, doing instinctively most of what he recommended&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Either Panther has an unusual number of hidden gotchas, or Murphy is singling me out for special treatment this time&#8230; perhaps both. XRay 1.0.7 is getting good reviews but users are also stumbling over several bugs &#8211; due, I&#8217;m sorry to say, to somewhat hurried testing. Details at the 1.0.7 discussion forum. I was figuring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-xray"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-y9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}