New Wiki Pages: Anatomy and Design Principles 
Friday, February 27, 2009, 01:02 PM
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Right now they are just outlines, but topics will include descriptions major components in a KnitML pattern, as well as some guidelines for developing KnitML patterns. My hope is that this will help people understand a bit more about how to go about writing a pattern in KnitML. (Samples help, but they don't explain the concepts.)

Please check out the wiki and let me know if this is helpful.

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More New Stuff 
Friday, February 20, 2009, 11:31 PM
Posted by Administrator
I've updated some admin stuff.

First, the source code is now being housed over at Google Code. I was frankly getting really sick of massive timeout problems with SourceForge's repository. It was so bad that I could only commit 4 or 5 files at once without the entire transaction rolling back. So far there have been no such problems with Google.

I have also added the project to Launchpad. Launchpad gives the community a place to ask questions, search an ever-expanding FAQ, submit enhancement requests (in a much nicer form that Bugzilla), suggest blueprints, and just generally foster collaboration. They don't however, have a wiki. So that is back at Google Code.

The graphical editor is undergoing some usability enhancements, thanks to Susan's contributions. Soon we will release GPEC 0.1.1.

The core KnitML tools (version 0.5) have some exciting new features coming. The big one is going to be chart rendering. I am very excited to be taking this on, as nothing like this has ever really been attempted before. To enable successful charting, the renderer has had to undergo a major re-architecture, and I'm almost finished with that.

Perhaps a less interesting change for most will be the increased modularity of the sub-projects, with plans for each module to be packaged as OSGi-compliant bundles. This will make GPEC a lot more efficient in its resource consumption.

So there is much to be done. Even if you don't write Java, there are design discussions that are happening on Ravelry (and hopefully soon on the Wiki). And we always need people to try to convert patterns using KEL, posting problems they're having and/or requests to extend the specification. Or just reading over the documentation and making suggestions.

Thanks, and I'll post again soon.

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Updated About page 
Thursday, February 19, 2009, 07:58 AM
Posted by Administrator
The About page was getting pretty old (not to mention confusing to the non-software-oriented person). So I updated it. Please let me know if the new page is more (or less) helpful.

I always appreciate comments. Don't be shy. :)

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KnitML featured in latest Cast On podcast 
Sunday, January 25, 2009, 03:14 AM
Posted by Administrator
If you've been dying to hear what I sound like, have a listen to the latest Cast On podcast.

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New Graphical Editor available 
Sunday, December 21, 2008, 04:14 PM
Posted by Administrator
The all-new KnitML Graphical Editor and Composer (GPEC) is available. Edit KEL files in a graphical environment, then convert them to XML, validate the XML, and render into a pattern... all by simply clicking on tabs in the lower portion of the editor.

It's available for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux GTK (i386 / AMD64 / PPC). Java 5 must be installed on your computer for this to work (although I can distribute a version with a JRE, although it will add about 95 megabytes to the download). If you need a distribution for an alternate platform, please let me know. It's really easy for me to export it to virtually any platform.

I will work on updating the demo page to show screenshots.

EDIT: Updated to mention Linux platforms.

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