![]() ![]() ![]() It does what it does and it does it pretty well. It's a special kind of magic, and I think it'll really open up VoodooPad to a bunch of new users.įlySketch gets an honorable mention, if only because of a very heated discussion with an App Store representative when I was trying to push an update out. Now we just put a VP document inside a shared Dropbox folder, and edit away. Which used to be a bit of a challenge before these syncing / file format changes. Kirstin (my wife) and I have been writing the documentation for VP5 in VoodooPad itself. This obviously meshes with some of the things that iCloud does as well, but that code hasn't been written yet so I can't make promises at this time. All it needs to do is look at a tree of files and make sure the most recently edited one is pushed out to the other machines. If you want to use your own home-grown app, it'll probably work with VoodooPad 5. ![]() And of course these changes aren't limited to a specific syncing solution. I think stepping back and looking at the syncing problem a different way has been really good for VoodooPad 5. And I'm so much happier for it now, and I think my customers will be too.ĭo you want to put your document in a Dropbox folder and have it sync to multiple computers at the same time, without having to remember to close it? Oh, and have a page automatically update in front of your eyes as it's edited on another machine? Sure, why not? What about if you put it in a source control repository which is shared among multiple people? Can it handle that now? Yes! And VP5 can even tell you which machine a page was last updated on, and by whom. Well, the solution I've come up with is to ignore syncing and instead redesign VoodooPad's document file format so that it can survive a 3rd party syncing app changing things behind it's back when VoodooPad is running. So that means I'm going to need a syncing solution that will be around for at least 5 years. There are still people out there happily using version 2.0 which came out in 2004. ![]() That means that it'll be 9 years old in a few weeks. I just don't want to devote a bunch of time building on a syncing solution that's going to be gone shortly. I really hope I'm wrong, but at least this explains one of the reasons I didn't rush out and add support for iCloud right away in VoodooPad. I've come to the conclusion that relying on Apple for any sort of syncing solution or general hosting of your data is probably a bad idea. Mac oops no I meant MobileMe wait it's called iCloud now wouldn't be long for this world. Honestly, it's not like I didn't know that iTools wait I mean. That's why I've ripped out the WebDAV code. Apple is killing/killed MobileMe, and with it they killed the WebDAV server which VoodooPad syncing was designed to work with. I did replace the sync code with something else but first let me explain quickly why WebDAV syncing is gone in VP5. I killed WebDAV syncing in VoodooPad 5, and replaced it with nothing and it is awesome now. Without going into too much detail, I'm going to talk about one of my favorite big new features: Work on VoodooPad 5 has been going on for quite some time now, though it is taking a lot longer to finish up than I had hoped. I absolutely love working on Acorn there are just so many different aspects to it that it never gets boring to work on. Acorn is up to version 3.2 now with big speed improvements when working with 15MP+ images, bezier curve improvements, color profile support, native 10.7 goodies like auto-save, versions, and full screen support.Īnd of course, more updates and improvements will be coming. Layer styles, multi-stop gradients, quickmask, instant alpha, much improved PSD support (which I wrote myself from the ground up), and more. It was extremely gratifying to see so many people start using Acorn so seriously, and ditching their current image editing software for it. Never before has our web server been so challenged to keep up with requests until that moment. The attention Acorn 3 got was unprecedented for Flying Meat. It has been a while since I've written about what Flying Meat is up to, so here's a little look back at 2011, a peek at what might be in store for 2012, and general things I've been thinking about lately.įirst up of course is the release of our updated image editor, Acorn 3. ![]()
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