Because sometimes the truth isn’t said enough.

If weakness is a wound that no one wants to speak of
Then “cool” is just how far we have to fall
I am not immune, I only want to be loved
But I feel safe behind the firewall

Can I lose my need to impress?
If you want the truth I need to confess

I’m not alright, I’m broken inside
And all I go through, it leads me to You

-Sanctus Real

The thing I mean can be seen for instance in children. When they find some game or joke that they especially enjoy, a child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess not absence of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free.

Therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. they always say “Do it again!”, and the grown up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown up people are not strong enough to exalt in monotony.

But perhaps God is strong enough to exalt in monotony. It is possible that every morning God says;

“Do it again!” to the sun, and every evening;

“Do it again!” to the moon.

It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike. It may be that God makes every daisy separately but has never got tired of making them. It may be that he has the eternal appetite of infancy for we have sinned and grown old and our father is younger than we.

These aren’t necessarily theologically correct, and it might be more accurate to say life in the “new heavens and the new earth”, but here it is co-written with annatsang.com:

Just a quick post about things I’m liking right now:

1) Tabs in Finder thanks to Total Finder.

2) Cut & Paste, thanks to Move Addict. Apple say they don’t include this because its a user interface inconsistency compared to cut & paste of text which deletes the text when you cut it. On windows when you cut a file, it only deletes it after you paste. But still I think its a better way to move multiple files than dragging and dropping.

Update
Appcelerator just announced that they’ve acquired Aptana. Not sure if it had anything to do with me pointing them in that direction via my plugin, but that would probably mean that I eventually stop maintaing this, since they’ll produce a much more integrated solution. Looking forward to it though!!!!

Original
I’ve been using Accelerator Titanium to create iPhone applications in JavaScript. One thing JavaScript is missing is really good editor with autocompletion / code completion. I recently found Aptana and wanted a way to autocomplete from the Titanium API in that. I’ve created ScriptDoc compatible JavaScript header file that does the job.

Installation
1) Install Aptana standalone or as an eclipse plugin.
2) Download the javascript header file
3) Switch to the Aptana perspective in eclipse
4) Set Aptana as the default javascript editor in preferences
5) Add the timobile.js to the references

Other points of interest:
- You can download the PHP file here that I use to create the JavaScript header file from the Titanium API JSON file. Run the PHP script in the same directory as the api.json file from Titanium.
- I’m working on an Eclipse plugin, you can view the source here.
- If you’re wondering why there are function names like Titanium_UI_Window, these are to act as dummy return types, because Aptana ScriptDoc didn’t allow me to return an Object in a name space like Titanium.UI.Window.
- Mbirth has a JSDoc code completion file here, but Adobe no longer seem to distribute JSEclipse so I’m not sure how it would work in Eclipse.

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about motivation, how to balance not doing things in order to achieve, but realising we don’t always feel like doing those things. This lecture by N.T. Wright is one of the best I’ve heard, and may provide the key for all the thoughts I’ve been thinking.

Just sharing that Social Interview is up to Number 5 in the UK app store for Social Networking apps. Just below Skype :-)

Here are my modifications to OpenTerminalHere.

Firstly, update to always open in new tab, and use the leopard icon:
http://jameslow.com/content/software/misc/OpenTerminalHere.zip

Secondly, completely new app to launch terminal and run ant from Finder:
http://jameslow.com/content/software/misc/AntHere.zip

Recently heard two excellent podcasts, one one free will (Ravi Zacharias) and one on the resurrection of Jesus (Rob Bell). Here’s the article Michael Ramsden mentions when he speaks.

Free Will (Ravi Zacharias)

Resurrection (Rob Bell)