Quill News, 5 Sep 2014
Since last week’s release of Quill v0.2.0, I’ve been working on the documentation; which is more involved than you might think. See, I first encountered HTML probably around September of 1993, which...
View ArticleDo You Sudo? Or, Increasing the Cognitive Load
One of Quill’s functions is that it lets you list the third-party libraries you need, and it goes out and fetches them for you. It fetches them from ActiveState‘s “teapot repository”, using a program...
View ArticleSudo, Sudon’t: Decreasing the Cognitive Load
Last week I talked about the joys of using the “sudo” command to manage resources installed as “root” on Unix-like systems, and some of the unpleasant links you have to jump through in the name of...
View ArticleThar Be Rough Waters Ahead
As I noted yesterday, I’ll be presenting a paper on Quill at the upcoming Tcl/Tk conference. This was a sudden decision, and so I’m scrambling a bit. I spent most of yesterday and all of this morning*...
View ArticleNotebook V2.2.0 Rises From The Dead
Many years ago (in 2005) I released a piece of software called Notebook v2.1.3. I’d been working on it for four or five years by that time. As to what it did…I assume everyone reading this knows what a...
View ArticleQuill v0.3.0
Quill v0.3.0 has now been released, and is available on the Quill Release Page. Binaries are available for OS X, Windows, and for 32-bit and 64-bit Linux. Quill is a project automation tool for Tcl/Tk...
View ArticleCoding Beyond The Screen, Part I
I’m sitting in Portland International waiting for my flight after the end of the Tcl/Tk conference, so it seems an appropriate time to continue my series on software aesthetics. Previously I talked...
View ArticleQuill v0.4.0
For those who are interested, I released v0.4.0 of Quill this morning. You can find the release notes at the link.
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