Jun 16 — 0
In case there was any doubt before, hell has indeed frozen over. Seeing Intel reps giddy to be working with Apple was one thing, but Michael Dell openly stated
Jun 15 — 2
I'm not sure what to make of this, but it turns out that Intel's headquarters is just around the corner from the new office (click through for the map)
Jun 15 — 0
Both Tami and my sister, Jamie, graduated from UC Santa Cruz on Saturday. Stanford got Steve Jobs to speak. As you might imagine, that meant UCSC did not. As I type this, Tami's flying to Europe to spend a few weeks there with her family. I gave her the names and descriptions of all of the osx-nutters
Jun 15 — 3
Even in Tiger, the Finder still isn't very tolerant of problems connecting to an iDisk. The Finder will block until it's able to connect or just times out. This makes iDisk somewhat useless because you're gambling every time you click on the icon. The Finder needs to use non-blocking connections for things like this, plain and simple.
Jun 15 — 2
2005 is a big year for WWDC. Not only did Apple announce it would build Macs that use Intel processors, but the format of the conference itself was rearranged a bit. Here are my thoughts on
Jun 14 — 0
Even though WWDC ended four days ago, I didn't want to leave any lose ends lying around. There was a Core Data session on Friday that was really useful. It went into detail that I haven't seen elsewhere. It also gave me an opportunity to talk
Jun 14 — 2
Just moved some of the essentials into the new office. There's a lot more to do, but I'm happy to be in here at last. It's a small space to start, but I'm going to work on bringing some other folks in before too long. The location is convenient, right off the 101 exit at Great America Parkway -- about a 10 minute drive from my house in Sunnyvale.
Jun 11 — 1
John Kheit has warnings for Mac users about the Intel switch, but I think he's missing some key details.
This is, of course, true, but it's no different than it has ever been. Vendors only target any CPU for a certain peroid of time. How many vendors really design their software to run well on a G3 or even
Software vendors will abandon support for PPC machines as soon as it makes business sense to do so.
This is, of course, true, but it's no different than it has ever been. Vendors only target any CPU for a certain peroid of time. How many vendors really design their software to run well on a G3 or even
Jun 10 — 0
The sessions get progressively more advanced throughout the week, so I found some interesting sessions on Thursday
Jun 10 — 1
Went to the campus bash last night at Apple. The Wallflowers were this year's live band (ironically playing on the speakers in the room I'm in right now). There were quite a lot of people there this year. If attendence continues to grow, they're going to have to start getting pretty creative about where to put everyone. :)
Jun 10 — 2
I spent most of my time in the labs on Wednesday. These turned out to be a real highlight of the conference for me. Since I was already familiar with the basic concepts of many Tiger APIs, what I really needed was to get answers on the less obvious things. The labs were ideal for this, because you talk to the people that wrote the code. In particular, I got answers about NSTreeController and NSArrayController, as well as threading in Core Data.
Jun 10 — 0
I'm catching up on various events. Stump was a lot of fun this year. Some of the questions asked of the experts
Jun 09 — 0
Apple Design Awards just ended. Some of the big winners were Delicious Library, Transmit and World of Warcraft. Big cheers for Warcraft. Typically, winners get to choose
Jun 08 — 2
There weren't a lot of sessions I wanted to check on Tuesday, so I spent more time meeting up with people that I've only known over email. I did go to a Cocoa session which talked about
Jun 07 — 2
It looks like Xcode 2.1 is indeed fully public, so I'll try to get to some of the other details here (see the original post too). First, there have been a lot of improvements to the source code management features. Specifically, it does a better job of handling
Jun 07 — 3
As expected, Monday was basically a warm-up day. The three "state of the union" presentations set the themes for the conference. Xcode 2.1 is a big focus, and not just because of universal binary support. There's quite a bit of
Jun 06 — 3
I installed Xcode 2.1 and played around with it briefly. In addition to universal binary support, there are a few other changes. I'm not sure exactly what's still secret, so I'm going to be conservative for now, and I'll come back and say more later. I think most of the surface-level stuff is safe because 2.1 is available for...
Jun 06 — 8
Keynote just ended. The shocking (shocking) news is that Apple is working on Intel-based Macs to ship sometime within the next year. Select and Premiere developers can get a porting "kit" -- which includes a 3.6GHz Intel-based
Jun 06 — 0
Theocacao will provide Cocoa Dev Central's WWDC 2005 coverage. The sessions themselves are confidental, but there's plenty of other stuff that can be talked about. To get thing rolling, I've posted a (rushed) article on Getting the Most out of WWDC.
Jun 03 — 0
I was pretty impressed by this:
So not only will they take the iPod off your hands, but they give you a pretty good motive for doing so. Kudos to Cupertino.
Bring any used iPod, iPod mini or iPod photo to any of the more than 100 Apple Stores in the US for free environmentally friendly recycling and get a 10% discount on the purchase of a new iPod that same-day. See your store for details.
So not only will they take the iPod off your hands, but they give you a pretty good motive for doing so. Kudos to Cupertino.
Jun 02 — 0
A DataCrux user has taken advantage of the fact that the framework is open source and has implemented a number of his own improvements. I don't have contact information for every single user, so let me know if you'd like to see this new build. Either post in the comments or send an email to my first name @treehouseideas.com.
May 30 — 2
I just got a question about Core Data, and the answer is obscure enough that I think it's worth mentioning
May 30 — 12
Rails is getting a lot of attention. The interesting thing is that it's not just hobbyists that are picking up on it. Even big companies seem to be figuring out that immense, five- and six-digit application servers don't necessarily make them any more productive than
May 29 — 2
Back in February, I talked about an issue with certain people getting only partial pages on this site, Cocoa Dev Central, Tree House Ideas, and some others. It was hard to debug since the vast majority of vistors had no problems. The good news is that I think I've finally
May 25 — 0
I don't post raw links to sites very often, but exactly four things caught my attention. Google Sightseeing: This site is both fun and truly interesting. The premise is simple: readers send in pointers to interesting sections of Google's satellite
Follow your bliss.
