For those XCode developers that weren’t around in the “early days,” this has all happened before. Universal binaries, Apple’s technique for delivering “fat” Intel and PowerPC binaries, has existed for even longer than the five years that Steve showed us in the WWDC keynote, when he announced that for the last five years Apple has [...]
Continue Reading...Every now and again someone sends me a link to Despair, Inc. Now I wouldn’t necessarily share these images with everybody — they could be taken quite the wrong way. But I really do find them amusing. Anyhow, The Art Of Demotivation is out and actually looks like a good read. Just be sure not [...]
Continue Reading...Well, I’m intrigued, my interest is piqued and I’m nervous. I like the PowerPC chip and hearing that Apple will stick with it gives me a certain sense of constancy in a universe of change. Just last month The Register wrote:
So the latest round of speculation on Monday suggested that once again Apple is close [...]
Before diving into CVS, I thought I’d investigate Subversion since it is fully supported by XCode. While I’m a great fan of CVS after a few decades of using it, there have always been a few things about it that I find annoying and Subversion has set out to fix them.
Some of the features that [...]
The wholesale exploitation of our personal information must be a terribly, terribly lucrative business. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Reed Elsevier PLC (you may have heard of one of its child companies, LexisNexis) seems very interested in harvesting all the personal information they can — for sale and profit, of course. [...]
Continue Reading...Along the lines of a spotlight on spotlight, here’s another neat little trick. It also highlights another difference between Spotlight and Quicksilver.
I really have a hard time with just about any kind of to-do list. For the most part, its keeping them up to date that is a problem. Well, as far as documents go, [...]
Really, there is. Mostly it’s pretty bad stuff, but now and then you find a thread that leads somewhere good.
Great. So if I start using this application, I’m going to become reliant on some paranoid flake who cripples his program on totally specious grounds.
Once I tracked that down I found plenty of good reading. And [...]
The Register recently reported on an IDC study on market growth that places Linux growth at 35.2%:
Linux server sales continued to show the strongest growth at 35.2 per cent and accounted for $1.2bn in sales. Linux servers made up 10 per cent of total sales in the quarter.
This outstrips Windows Server growth, currently at 12 [...]
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