You may have noticed a small advert at the bottom of the sidebar on this blog recently. This is part of the IndyMac community ad server which is coded and hosted by Jan Lehnardt. The project came out of an idea by Daniel Jalkut aboutco-operative advertising between Mac developers. Jan’s system is now ready for public consumption so if you want to join simply make you way over to the administration centre (prettified by yours truly) and register. The network operates on a similar principle to the Dock advertising network (small 120x90px image, 75 characters of text allowed) but it completely free.

In other news, I’ve finally decided on a new host. You may have seen a post a while ago on my personal blog where I compared various web hosts. One host I overlooked was TextDrive. I was put off by the relatively small amount of storage space and bandwidth (5GB and 15GB/month respectively) but I realised that for the time being that’s all I really need, and for $99 for the full year it’s hard to go wrong. I’ll be moving the site over to TextDrive sometime this weekend so you may see some minor downtime as I move things over. This is all in preparation for our new application which should be out at the end of July and which I’ll be talking more about later this week.

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Any charity work is a commendable action and Seth Dillingham is one such individual who is trying to raise $6600 for cancer research and treatment. In order to help raise money he’s also going to be holding a software auction and M Cubed has offered licences of Minim as well as our upcoming second application (more about that later in the week). If you’re a developer I suggest you donate to the cause, if you are a user then keep an eye out for the auction and make a bid, it’s all for a very good cause

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We’ve just released Minim 1.1.2. This fixes a few bugs with Minim, including a rather annoying one that stopped Minim from working if you had a non ascii character or a space in the file path eg. My Apps/Minim.app. Hopefully our next update for Minim will be 1.2 though before that we have our new application to finish off. You’ll be seeing quite a bit more about it over the next month so keep your eyes peeled.

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First, a little oddity I noticed while messing around in Interface Builder today. If you add an NSTextFieldCell to a table column and try to change it’s class you’ll notice that it doesn’t list NSTokenFieldCell. If you want to have a token cell in your table you have to add the NSTokenFieldCell header from AppKit into IB. Why it isn’t already in IB I don’t know, but it’s worth pointing out.

And now onto something a bit more exciting. I’ve spent the day working on our next application and hit a snag when I wanted to build a rule editor, similar to those used in Mail and iTunes for smart Mailboxes/Playlists. After spending a few hours trying to write something I gave up and decided to look for sample code on the interweb. After much searching I found that there wasn’t really any code that did what I want, things were looking glum. Then I stumbled across this code and suddenly the sun came out (thanks a lot to Joar for this code). Several hours later and I had a working rule editor. All that was left to do was package it up, update our Open Source site and write a blog post (*checks writing blog post off his list*).

So here it is, M3RuleEditor. Feel free to download it, use it, hack it, put it in your apps, make soup from it…. whatever takes your fancy. And keep a look out for this code appearing in a new M Cubed app coming soon

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