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For lack of anything to do while catching up on laundry before we take the insane night crossing to Dublin on early Sunday morning - which means we will be driving to Holyhead on Saturday evening/night, I’ve started playing again with Widgets in OS X. I’ve resumed poking the mplayer controller widget I started a few months back - I was hoping it would stop me forgetting to record shows form BBC’s listen again (we do have MythTV but I’m told it needs more tweakage ;-p )
Today, I’ve started plugging it together using jQuery. I just can’t be doing with all that getElementById nonsense to be honest.. Hopefully I’ll have something vaguely working before the mad rush to pack starts. At least I have found out how to turn on the debug menu in Safari, since that’s the best browser for testing your widgets before releasing them to the wild it seems.

To turn it on (and it’s not a patch on FireBug, but what is?)

• Quit Safari
• Open a terminal window
• Type defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
• Relaunch  Safari

I did order the Visual Quick Start Widget book ages ago but it seems to be getting  delayed and delayed, at least that is what Amazon tells me. The same has been happening with the Ruby in a Nutshell book, which is most annoying. I had set myself the pre-birth/maternity leave project of learning Ruby, while my husband paints the nursery.

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