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I’ve been offered a Web Developer job at the some children’s charity that I’ve never heard of.

I’ve taken it.

I’m a very happy person.

For a very long time, I’d been unhappy with the list of my DVDs here on dougweb.org. For a long time, I merely linked to the IVS MyProfiler page. Updating that was easy, and the list was kept pretty much up to date.

After a while, I used Roolku’s external skin to get a fancier look, but because that requires an XML export, I didn’t update it as frequently. It also meant downloading the entire XML file to view even a single DVD.

I then added a PDF, that was produced by ‘printing’ a DVD Profiler report. That created a file that was even larger than the XML. And because producing/uploading a PDF and the XML took a long time, updates became rare. I updated the list less and less frequently, leading to multiple-month gaps.

And finally, I toyed with using the XML file and and XSL transform to generate custom web pages. That was a less than half-hearted effort.

So I decided that I really needed to create a solution that I was going to be happy with. Enter the DVD Profiler Companion.

Over the last few nights I’ve rewatched the mini-series from 2001. Once again I was blown away by it’s sheer intensity, and brutal honesty. It’s definitely a recommended purchase!

Finally!

http://www.dougweb.org/dvdpro/companion/

All sorts of goodies - cross-linking, translations, decent navigation, speed improvements, compatibility enhancements and more - see the changelog for more details.

Over the next few days, I’m going to post some thoughts on the development experience.

Well, WebKit actually. But that doesn’t sound as exciting.

It’s from the guys at GetWebKit, and their browser is called Swift. And it’s actually a rather shitty-looking browser. But since the version they’ve released is 0.1pre, you can’t expect too much really in terms of interface. But it’s WebKit for Windows, so I don’t care. It does threaten to make my Mac Mini redundant though…

via Anne Van Kesteren

Then check out this weeks Galacticast. Great stuff.