Tue - June 24, 2008
31,000 Scientists Refute Global Warming
Or so says retired meteorologist John Coleman in
a bit of spam (as seen on
Snopes.com), forwarded to me by some dear friends. After a little
reading on this claim, I sent this reply...
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Sun - June 1, 2008
Dear Apple, I Love the iPhone
Yeah, I know, I said I was keeping my Palm, but
that was almost a year ago. And so much has changed since
then...
Posted at 11:29 AM Read More
Sun - July 1, 2007
Love the iPhone, Keeping my Palm
The stars aligned: my wife had been asking what
new toy I might like for my birthday, my call-dropping Sprint service reached
the end of its 3 year contract, the Palm OS was disappearing from even Palm's
own phones, and Apple had introduced the most anticipated new gadget of all
time: the iPhone. True,
my 15GB iPod still seemed to have a lot of life left in it, and nothing in
particular going against it --- but why fight fate? ...
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Tue - January 16, 2007
On Comments
One way or another, all programmers eventually
learn the importance of commenting their code. The importance of clear
documentation increases with the size of the team and the complexity of the
project. Ideally, the code will not only be documented but unit tested as well.
Here's an example of what happens when, for one reason or another, we let
ourselves be less than thorough...
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Sun - July 2, 2006
A Few Weeks with a MacBook Pro, Parallels, and MSDN Universal
Several weeks ago a maxed-out MacBook Pro arrived at my
doorstep, and since then I've been putting it through the paces as a .NET
development system --- using Microsoft's own Visual Studio 2005 on Windows XP,
running under OS X via Parallels Desktop for
Mac. To my surprise, I not only got this to work, but work well enough
to blow away my 1.6 GHz Dell running XP natively with twice as much
RAM...
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Sat - April 15, 2006
ListView Tooltips for SubItems
I don't say much about my .NET work here,
sometimes because the nature of that work is proprietary, but usually because
there's so much about .NET already on the web that it'd just be redundant. I had
a hard time finding out exactly how .NET 2.0 supported tooltips for ListView
subitems, though, so I thought I'd put a small blurb on the web for the benefit
of others...
Posted at 10:34 AM Read More
Thu - April 6, 2006
Virtualization Software for Intel-Based Macs
Yesterday I went on a bit about Apple's Boot Camp software
that enables booting into Windows, and said I'd prefer running Windows in a
virtual machine (VM) when it became available. Turns out that such software is
available today for beta testing from Parallels; here's the press
release. And according to this, it's very, very
fast, too --- if the video
isn't
faked, it's darn impressive...
Posted at 11:54 PM Read More
Wed - April 5, 2006
My Future .NET Development Machine: A Mac!
It's official: Apple announced
that they'll provide the ability for new Intel-based Macs to boot Windows XP via
Boot Camp,
available now as a public Beta and later as a feature bundled with OS X. While
some clever people have succeeded in bringing up Windows on a Mac before, an official Apple solution will be
better received, particularly among businesses that might like to give Macs a
try. But the question my fellow Visual Studio users may be asking is, "Why
bother?"...
Posted at 11:18 PM Read More
Thu - February 23, 2006
An Open Letter to the RIAA
I support the idea of legal music downloads, and
I agree that copyright holders deserve to be compensated for their work. All the
music I've downloaded has been through Apple's iTunes music store, and
everything on my iPod comes from either that or CDs I purchased in the
past...
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Fri - September 30, 2005
Serenity
The FOX television science fiction series
Firefly
was "hailed by critics as one of the most cancelled series of the year," joked
creator Joss Whedon. Shown out of order by FOX, Firefly was pulled after just 11
episodes. But the strength of the DVD sales, which
included an additional 3 episodes that never aired, helped Whedon get the
backing of Universal Studios for a feature film. That
film, Serenity,
arrives in theaters today...
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Sat - July 16, 2005
Number Formatting in Javascript
I released my little Firefox Counter
widget, and within two weeks the feed changed to remove the thousands
separators (commas, the U.S. and British convention). With over 70 million
downloads of Firefox now, it's a big number to view without such separators.
Javascript to the rescue...
Posted at 12:52 AM Read More
Thu - July 14, 2005
Firefox Widget Trouble? Already?
Yes and no. If you've downloaded the Firefox Counter
widget and you're not seeing an increasing count at the moment, it's
because SpreadFirefox.com --- the site that provides the counter data --- is
temporarily down...
Posted at 04:57 PM Read More
Tue - July 5, 2005
Firefox Counter Widget
With much guidance from Danny Goodman's new
Mac OS X Technology
Guide to Dashboard, graphic bits
from the Firefox
logo artists, and an RSS feed from SpreadFirefox.com, I've thrown
together my first OS X Tiger Dashboard
widget. A simple little thing, the Firefox Counter
widget just displays the minute-by-minute download count for
Firefox...
Posted at 08:12 AM Read More
Sat - June 11, 2005
UnitKit's Fate
Back in March I took a first look at unit testing
in Objective-C and a few of the options available. I chose UnitKit. Well, with the release of
XCode 2.1, Apple not only adds support for Intel processors, but also integrates
a unit testing framework, OCUnit (XCode's
release notes can be found here).
While this will expand the number of developers who embrace unit testing and
improve software quality on the Mac platform, it does call into question the
future of alternative testing frameworks like UnitKit...
Posted at 10:52 PM Read More
Tue - June 7, 2005
Intel Inside... Macintosh!
Apple's announcement that they'd be migrating
their product line to Intel processors is sure getting its share
of press. I've been reading a lot of the predictions, some good and
some rubbish, but Macworld has a FAQ
that seems to be pretty realistic...
Posted at 10:52 PM Read More
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