A while back I started an article series on a utility named Ripsaw. I have since gotten pretty busy with other projects, and the only extracurricular thing I’ve worked on in the meantime is the lesson series on how to play “Spanish Fly”. I was also waiting for Visual Studio 2010 to hit release, but I haven’t moved up to Professional yet, so I may actually drop the whole project back down to VS 2008 when I start it up again.
On top of all that, Blogger is yanking the rug out from under me with some changes to how it updates certain sites, and I want to get that resolved before I add any significant new content. I just wanted to let everyone know that the project isn’t dead; in fact, there have been several times over the last few weeks when I’ve needed a utility like Ripsaw, so this is definitely going to get done eventually.
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In this installment of the Ripsaw article series we’ll start putting some actual code into an implementation of the COM interfaces that we specified in the last article. For those of you who just joined the series, Ripsaw is a log viewer for Windows, similar to the Unix tail utility. This series of articles details my rewrite of the application from the ground up.
Continue reading ‘Ripsaw Library Implementation’ »
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In this installment of the Ripsaw article series we’ll finally get to write some code. We’ve already gotten a pretty good idea about how we want to implement the core Ripsaw library, so now we’re going to define enough of the COM interface that we can create a simple test script that will eventually be used to exercise the library.
Continue reading ‘Ripsaw COM Interface, First Pass’ »
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In my last entry in the Ripsaw article series, I discussed some of the design goals for Ripsaw. In this article I’ll flesh out the design a little more and discuss specific implementation possibilities.
To bring you up to speed, Ripsaw is a log-viewing utility for Windows that I initially wrote about six years ago, but never released widely. I’ve decided to rewrite it and discuss each step of the rewrite here.
Continue reading ‘Refining Ripsaw’s Design’ »
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In this installment of the Ripsaw project series I’ll sketch out some of my design goals for the new version of Ripsaw, and the rationale for those goals.
Continue reading ‘Design Goals for Ripsaw’ »
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Several years ago I wrote a Windows application called “Ripsaw” that implemented the basic functionality of the Unix tail utility in a graphical application, with a few twists of my own. I had intended to release the application as an open-source project, and although I still use the tool quite a bit I never got around to giving it the necessary polish for a public release. I’ve only shared it with a few friends and co-workers.
I’ve just downloaded Beta 2 of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and I’ve decided to create a new version of Ripsaw from the ground up so that I can become familiar with the new IDE and compiler. Besides being a chance to finally get Ripsaw right, this will also be an opportunity to create a series of articles on how I develop a complete application, from the first ideas through design, implementation, testing, and release. I’ll walk you through all of the design decisions and trade-offs, the problems I run into along the way, and the development methodologies I use.
I would really appreciate your feedback, ideas, suggestions, and criticisms. This is going to be fun!
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