This week I updated jsXe's webpage. It looks a lot nicer now and makes use of php so that the menus and stuff are defined in only one place. That makes it a lot easier to mantain. For the new design I just used a regular webpage with css to apply the styling. It's remarkably simple and flexable. I'm not a web guru but I see now why a lot of people find this area rewarding. It's a lot of fun [...]

Recently I feel like I've been pretty busy. Things have been going well with Reiko and I spend a good amount of time talking to her every day. Though because I'm talking to her a lot I'm not doing a whole lot else. I have been able to study Japanese some but working on jsXe and such has been pushed out. There is also the problem with how we will be together and what to do in the future. My p[...]

Yesterday I released jsXe 0.4pre3 Hopefully I'll be releasing new versions more regularly in the future. It's hard to maintain focus on Japanese study and jsXe and everything else all at once. I really need to redo the website jsXe website soon. It's pretty crappy. The guy that designed it did an Ok job but he didn't work on it for very long. Maybe I can come up with some design requirement[...]

Been busy this week but I managed to add cut/copy/paste support to the tree view in jsXe cvs. Though I pulled my hair out a bit and there are some limitations, it works pretty well. I just wish there was more interest in the project. It would help me justify the time that I put into it. I think jsXe could be a cool project and I have some good ideas for it, like a schema editing view, I feel[...]

Hey all, this weekend I'll be spending quite a bit of time on the computer. This weekend I'll be adding a few new minor features to jsXe. I haven't worked on it seriously in months. Almost as long as I've been talking to Reiko. I wonder if that had something to do with it. Anyway, I've added some DTD/Schema validation features and I'd like to expand those a bit. I'd like to add in some built[...]

I've been working a lot on jsXe recently. Mostly on the schema view, bug fixes, better namespace support etc. The schema view is going to look pretty cool when it's farther along. I've got an early screenshot of the schema view up on the jsXe website. Hopefully I'll have a releaseable version in the next few weeks. There is literally too much work to do on jsXe in general. Just the normal tr[...]

The last few days have been pretty boring. We had an all day division meeting at work. It was interesting to get updates on other projects going on in Software Development but it's a WHOLE DAY. Needless to say I didn't get any actual work done. I pretty much gave up on the work I did over the weekend on jsXe. This decision stems from the fact that it's just too hard to maintain that code and[...]

I just finished separating the gui component for the tree view in jsXe. I wish I had done more today. There's always tonight to make up for it. I'll probobly start watching Heibane Renmei tonight tho. I'm not sure if I'll like it but we'll see. Right now I'm going to head to the store to buy some vegetables to make food because I've waited too long and I'm starving.

Workin' jsXe for most of the day today. I'm trying to separate the strait gui components for the different views from the editor specific parts. I didn't see the necessity for this at first but a few projects have used code from jsXe and basically rewrote parts of it. I would rather they used specific classes (the gui components) and wrote their own logic to integrate it into their applicati[...]

Being on the software development team for reporting at work makes me somewhat interested in reporting in general. Also given my interest in GNU software I naturally looked for open-source or free software for reporting. In my search I came across JasperReports, which is an open-source framework for creating printable reports. It uses XML as a way to define reports and has some nice viewe[...]