yEAd is coming along, I need feedback

yAEd--my text editor--now has filename completion. This is the major feature that will make it different from other programs. Unfortunately it isn't quite right, I need some feedback on how it should behave. If you use text editors (programming, latex, etc) it would be awesome if you gave it a try and let me know what you think.

Website: http://yaed.googlecode.com

Discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/yaed

If you are in windows you'll need to download the earlier build with the gtk runtime included here, then download the new build here.

If you are in linux, you can install the libgtksourceview development package with your favorite package manager. That should suck in all the dependencies you need. Then checkout the source as instructed on the google code page. Then type make.

Six month update

YAEd is coming along slowly but it's functional--kinda. Which is something. I've recently figured out what direction I will go with find behaviour (something i've been stuck on for a while). I also have it building on windows but it's a little crashy.  That's what I get for ignoring stupid gtk runtime errors... Speaking of windows...

I built myself a shiny new computer for christmas and bought a real windows license to go along with it. Turns out that was debatably a poor decision because shortly after i bought the computer I decided to go back to school again and didn't have the money because i had an unforeseen car repair.... So i put in some hours and lived poor but i made enough for three credits.

School is going well. I'm halfway through the semester and homework and attendence are up. Tests need work though. My first two were brutal and shameful. I managed to find a pdf of one of my textbooks which is awesome moneywise but reading from a laptop suuucks.

Enter Jarrett. He bought a nook color and rooted it and stuff. Its a $250 android tablet with a gorgeous screen and not too shabby power behind it. Well i got the gadget lust and after all i need a better way to read my textbook right? So i bought one. It fires my imagination and wastes my time. It is awesome. Maybe i'll follow up with a review or some thoughts.

But as usual after making a big purchase unforeseen expenses. I just had my car in the shop again and now i've spent enough that i feel poor again. qq c'est la vie, non?

Update

Haven't blogged in a while so here's the scoop.

I have lost my source to my chess program, maybe i'll find it, maybe i won't, but it doesn't matter as i've been planning to rewrite the ui from scratch, and all the under the hood stuff was heavily reliant on cocoa so needed significant work to make it portable as well.

I'm currently working on a combat clone, along with a highly portable framework for programming. right now it's making windows, setting up opengl etc, but networking is coming along nicely and when i get a license for windows or iphone or whatever i'll add a graphics api agnostic layer as well.

ycurses has languished in non update forever. i really don't have a D tool chain set up at the moment so that might continue until i get frustrated with C and hit D again. some time ago i got an offer from someone to take over maintenance of the project, i denied him, but i'm kind of regretting it. Whatever, it's MIT licensed, he can do what he wants with it.

At this current moment i'm in the middle of an epic road trip to the west coast. You can get picks at shutterfly. Shutterfly by the way looks like an awesome site. Basically free unlimited uploads, and downloads not at full resolution, but decent for printing small pics. The best part? Anyone can order prints. I think that's their business model, and i think it's awesome in theory. We'll see if my mom or anyone orders anything. I for one am going to try to get my family on it so i can get pictures of neices, nephews etc.