I am using iPhoto to manage all my pictures as I don’t think I am a photographer or a shutterbug in any way. And iPhoto does have all the features what I really need. So I didn’t pay any attention on Aperture before.

One of my friend was coming to me and asked a question about Aperture 2.0 today. He said he was trying it in another day, but it crashed all the time when he want to export pictures out, even click “Export” preference tab would crash too.

This is really unusual for a software which is came from Apple.

Before ask google, I did a quick look on his log file. Interestingly, before crashing there was one line said something about color pickers. So I opened his ~/Library/ColorPickers and found he has installed pretty much every color pickers what I have mentioned in another post – “Choose your right colors on Mac is not easy – My Mac Serial 1“.

Simply moving color pickers out really solved the Aperture crashing problem. So it is the issue resource then.

Well, we still need some color pickers, right? I put every color pickers back one by one and found “RCWebColorPicker” is the one who breaks Aperture this time.

Anyway, here are some more information:

• Crash while trying to export on Leopard (New bug)
• Export Pref tab causes crash

• F->IT – web based FTP client
  F->IT is an easy to use FTP client that resembles Windows Explorer. With it, you can:

  * Drag and drop folders and files.
  * Edit highlighted source files.
  * Upload multiple files.

  (tags: ajax browser ftp online web2.0 javascript)
• canhaschat – Google Code
  can has chat is a plugin for Ruby on Rails that allows you to easily plugin messaging functionality to your app using XMPP4R.
  (tags: chat im jabber plugin plugins rails xmpp ruby rubyonrails)
• :: GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS :: When, a Rails plugin
  The When Rails plugin adds :if and :unless modifiers to before_filters, most ActiveRecord callbacks, and validations.
  (tags: activerecord development plugin plugins rails railsplugins ruby rubyonrails filters programming)
• RubyForge: spacer: Project Info
  Ruby API for the Myspace Platform API.
  (tags: myspace ruby)

• Freebase : Sign In
  Freebase is an open, shared database of the world’s knowledge.
  (tags: database opensource collaboration community)
• AJAX Chat – Open Source Web Chat
  AJAX Chat is a free and fully customizable open source web chat software implemented in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL. Sound support is implemented using Flash, Socket support using Flash on client-side and Ruby on server-side.
  (tags: ajax chat opensource php mysql)
• Touchpad for iPhone
  Touchpad enables you to use your iPhone as a wireless touchpad. You can control the mouse on your PC using just your iPhone. You can move the mouse around, click, double-click, and even drag (double click but keep it pressed and then move around).
  (tags: applications iphone touchpad ipodtouch vnc mobile)
• LoJack Car Security System for Stolen Vehicle Recovery
  When your vehicle is stolen, LoJack helps get it back — fast. A LoJack transmitter hidden in your vehicle helps the police track and recover it, often within a few hours.
  (tags: gadgets car security)

• Jott™ – Official Site
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• Activa Live Chat | Live Help Software, Online Customer Service, Live Support
  Activa Live Chat is the world’s only full featured on-demand live chat platform.
  (tags: air applications flex chat live flash)
• DNSPinger – DNS Update Notifier By WebResourcesDepot
  DNSPinger is a web-based tool that pings the website you mentioned every 3 minutes for 24 hours and e-mails you when the Ip is updated (new DNS is activated).
  (tags: dns domain hosting webdev webservice programming free)
• Flash Media Server Hosting – Influxis Flash Media Interactive Server 3 Hosting Specialists
  Influxis brings you the latest Flash Media Server 3 Hosting technologies.
  (tags: flash hosting streaming video fms media communication)
• 卡车司机的不同视角 | 掘图志
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• Step by Step – Show and explain visitors what your page has for them
  Step by Step – Show and explain visitors what your page has for them
  (tags: accessibility ajax development inspiration javascript prototype yui usability wizard)
• FFFFOUND!
  Agile software development is a conceptual framework for software engineering that promotes development iterations throughout the life-cycle of the project.
  (tags: design art inspiration photography images illustration aggregator bookmark)
• Bad usability calendar
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• David Rusenko – Press for Startups: 10 tips
  How do you get press to write about your new startup, your new product or your feature launch? Here are ten tips to attracting press attention and dealing with the conversations that follow.
  (tags: entrepreneurship startup tips)
• Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
  Application usability is enhanced when users know how to operate the UI and it guides them through the workflow. Violating common guidelines prevents both.
  (tags: accessibility usability design webdesign gui development programming)

What’s XPToronto?

The XPToronto/Agile Users Group is a dedicated community of software development specialists located in the Toronto, Canada area. The members of XPToronto are committed to the acceptance of Agile development methodologies, such as Extreme Programming, Scrum and many others.

We usually have discussion meetings on the third Tuesday of every month, except for the months of July and August when we break for the summer. From “Previous Presentations” page you can find a lot of Agile experts and book authors. Such as:

• JB Rainsberge, author of “JUnit Recipes“
• Scott Ambler, author of “Refactoring Databases“
• Mike Bowler
• B.C. Holmes
• Miskin Berteig
• Dmitri Zimine
• Reg Braithwaite
• Barry Gervin
• ……

Yesterday’s meeting is about “Agile Requirements and Planning Using Stories”, presented by Lawrence Ludlow who is current leading the XPToronto community.

Lawrence gave a presentation that he developed in the past to introduce new clients to agile development and how Intelliware approach project scoping and plannin. There was a lot of information and experience sharing.

Anyway, if you missed the workshop, there is one quote from Mr. Ludlow you shouldn’t miss:

How to do Agile planning?

1. Make it work
2. Make it right
3. Make it faster

Want to know more:

• Official website
• XPToronto Facebook group

• SIMILE | Exhibit 2.0
  Exhibit is a three-tier web application framework written in Javascript, which you can include like you would include Google Maps.
  (tags: actionscript aggregation ajax javascript visualization web2.0 semanticweb)
• argilla: inWriter
  a small javascript class that allows inline editing for text fields.

  (tags: javascript editor editinplace web2.0)

• Shorty
  Shorty is a simple tool for creating shorter, human- readable links from long URLs. You install Shorty on your server, so the links you create with it never go away.
  (tags: php urls url)
• ProjectPier.org
  ProjectPier is a Free, Open-Source, self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams through an intuitive web interface.
  (tags: application business collaboration community projectmanagement opensource php groupware management)
• SpringSource Team Blog » Creating OSGi bundles
  Creating OSGi bundles
  (tags: java osgi spring maven)
• defmacro – Functional Programming For The Rest of Us
  Functional Programming For The Rest of Us
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• Code Commit: Roundup: Scala for Java Refugees
  Roundup: Scala for Java Refugees
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• Ruby on Rails: USPS Package Tracking
  USPS Track is a plugin which allows you to track US Postal Service packages easily from your Rails app.
  (tags: usps ruby rails rubyonrails railsplugins)
• rspec-on-rails-matchers – Google Code
  A collection of RSpec Matchers focused on specing Ruby on Rails projects
  (tags: bdd plugin ruby rubyonrails tdd testing textmate rspec rails matchers)
• RSpec-1.1.2 and ZenTest-3.8.0
  ZenTest release boasts an improved cascading configuration model that works well for subclasses (like those ship with RSpec) and allows users to override the mappings of specs (or tests) to code as well as the list of files that get ignored by autotest.
  (tags: autotest bdd plugins rails reference ruby rspec testing)
• Heroku
  When you create or import an app with Heroku, it’s already live on the web. No configuration or deployment necessary.
  (tags: ajax amazon application deployment rails hosting rubyonrails ruby development programming)
• Piston – Gitorious
  Piston is a utility that eases vendor branch management. This is similar to svn:externals, except you have a local copy of the files, which you can modify at will. As long as the changes are mergeable, you should have no problems.
  (tags: ruby rails rubyonrails railsplugins)
• evil.che.lu – projects – braid
  Braid, formerly known as giston, is a simple tool to help track git and svn vendor branches in a git repository.

  It’s similar to piston but it’s for git.

  (tags: git rails ruby scm rubyonrails piston)
• Craig Ambrose. respond_to.email, or how to handle incoming emails in rails RESTfully
  respond_to.email, or how to handle incoming emails in rails RESTfully
  (tags: development email guide howto performance ruby rails rubyonrails rest programming)
• $ command line ruby cheat sheets
  You’ve reached the central repository for cheat, the RubyGem which puts Ruby-centric cheat sheets right into your terminal.
  (tags: ruby cheatsheet rails reference programming rubyonrails documentation cheatsheets)
• Restful Authentication with all the bells and whistles – Rails Forum – Ruby on Rails Help and Discussion Forum
  This tutorial was built and tested using rails version 2.0.2. Features covered include activation, changing passwords, forgotten passwords, enable/disable users, roles and OpenID.
  (tags: authentication authorization rails restful rest rubyonrails tutorial ruby howto openid)
• YARB: backup_fu Makes Amazon S3 Backups Redonkulous
  It’s a rails plugin, invoked via rake tasks. After installing the plugin and modifying a few lines in a config file, you can have your application backing up both its database and static files to Amazon S3 within minutes.
  (tags: amazon backup database deployment gem rails s3 ruby plugins rubyonrails)
• XRAY :: for web developers
  XRAY is a bookmarklet for Internet Explorer 6+, and Webkit and Mozilla based browsers (including Safari, Firefox, Camino or Mozilla). Use it to see the box model for any element on any web page.
  (tags: css webdesign development bookmarklets webdev web bookmarklet)
• Playpumps International and the PlayPump water system. Kids play. Water Pumps! :: PlayPumps International
  (tags: charity water environment energy nonprofit development)
• Geni – Home
  Create your family tree on line
  (tags: familytree web2.0 social history genealogy community inspiration)
• VA4U.com – 1000s of Virtual Assistants from all over the world
  VA4U provides comprehensive international registers of our Virtual Assistant (VA) Members. Each Virtual Assistant has their own personal web page and directory where they describe the services that they offer and details so you can contact them.
  (tags: business outsourcing assistant productivity)

• TouchGraph | Home
  TouchGraph’s powerful visualization solutions reveal relationships between people, organizations, and ideas.

  Explore the wealth of information in today’s growing data collections with our intuitive visual interfaces.

  (tags: amazon visualization graph java google web2.0 analytics architecture collaboration facebook)
• Pomoto – Your iPhotos Online
  Pomoto is a new way to publish your iPhoto library to the web. Built specifically for iPhoto users, Pomoto offers ease of use, beginning with a simple and intuitive publishing tool, and resulting in a clean and elegant photo gallery of your very own.
  (tags: apple iphoto gallery photography mac photo)
• t4eclipse – Google Code
  t4eclipse is developed when I learn and use swt/eclipse. I develop this tool to make life easier for me as an eclipse plug-in developer. And I believe that this tool will also help you in some way.
  (tags: development eclipse plugin plugins)
• Jacopo Malnati, X-Ray 1.0.3
  X-Ray is an open-source software visualization plug-in for the Eclipse framework. It provides System Complexity View, Class and Package Dependency View for a given Java project.
  (tags: development eclipse java metrics visualization codeanalysis plugin)
• Use Java Coding Standards and Java Code Review to fix bugs in Java code – Enerjy.com
  Enerjy, an Eclipse plug-in that can spot bugs before they happen, so you can develop faster by getting it right the first time.
  (tags: java plugins eclipse)
• SourceForge.net: maveripse » Overview
  Why another Maven integration?
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• Tasktop Technologies
  With Tasktop, multitasking becomes easy as your entire desktop and web browsing experiences are realigned around tasks. When you use Tasktop, less really does become more, as embodied by our logo. Tasktop is powered by Eclipse Mylyn.
  (tags: collaboration eclipse gtd plugin productivity programming task)

• Tidy Service
  Tidy Service is a simple OS X Service that cleans up markup using the powerful HTML Tidy library originally created by Dave Raggett.
  (tags: apple html osx mac tidy xhtml development coda web)
• claros.org: Products
  laros inTouch is an Ajax communication suite with key features such as webmail, address book, post-it notes, calendar (in progress), webdisk (in progress), built-in instant messenger and rss reader
  (tags: collaboration opensource webmail ajax java groupware email)
• PureEdit, Making content management purely simple.
  PureEdit is the first CMS that dramatically simplifies the back-end development of your website while giving you full control of the front-end design and programming.
  (tags: ajax cms webdesign blogging php opensource)
• HEMA – online winkelen
  Coolest Flash site ever?
  (tags: actionscript flash design animation inspiration)
• tweener – Google Code
  Tweener (caurina.transitions.Tweener) is a Class used to create tweenings and other transitions via ActionScript code for projects built on the Flash platform.
  (tags: actionscript flash tween animation library opensource components)
• ACCORD5 | Trellis Desk
  Trellis Desk is a powerful, robust help desk solution for your business. Improve your company’s service by allowing your customers to quickly and easily submit support tickets to your team.
  (tags: bugtracking helpdesk opensource php development collaboration business crm)
• glossy.js (with IE 6/7 support)
  glossy.js 1.4 allows you to add corners and shading and shadow to images on your webpages (alternatively: corner.js).
  (tags: javascript webdesign design graphics effects image)
• Yahoo! Developer Network – Flash Developer Center – Yahoo! Maps AS3 Component
  The all-new Yahoo! Maps component for Flex 3 enables you to add a map to a wide-range of web and desktop applications.
  (tags: actionscript adobe as3 yahoo maps api flash flex library geo)
• Online Education Database – Online Colleges and Universities | OEDb
  OEDb contains reviews of 1,038 programs from 88 accredited online colleges. Unlike other leading online education directories, our database only lists accredited online colleges so that these degrees will be respected by potential employers.
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• Kevin Kelly — The Technium
  When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied.

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• TableKit
  TableKit is a collection of HTML table enhancements using the Prototype framework. TableKit currently implements row striping, column sorting, column resizing and cell editing using Ajax.
  (tags: ajax javascript prototype webdesign library)
• moo.rd – A lightweight Mootools extension
  moo.rd is a super lightweight library based on the MooTools.
  It is designed to give many functionalities to the developers, like a lot of effects, customizable standards, utility native functions, table management, virtual boxes and many more.
  (tags: ajax development extension framework javascript mootools effects web)