Archive for April, 2006

Ch-ch-ch-changes…

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

Still don't know what I was waiting for And my time was running wild A million dead-end streets and Every time I thought I'd got it made It seemed the taste was not so sweet So I turned myself to face me But I've never caught a glimpse. - Bowie, David This has been a week of changes ...

The incredible disappearing, reappearing developer

Monday, April 24th, 2006

You may have noticed I've not posted anything to our blog for the past couple of weeks. Unfortunately, my wife's grandmother died about two weeks ago, and we've spent the intervening time preparing for a trip back to the UK (Yorkshire) for the funeral. Given that we'd already planned a ...

Vista "Abysmally handled" says known MS shill.

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Forgive the Daily Star-style headlining I spent about 7 hours with some smart people yesterday. One of them, a dyed-in-the-wool Windows sysadmin, showed us some cool technology but it was very noticeable the way he expressed how he had no idea how to sell Vista to his clients. He could force ...

This guy gets it.

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

This guy really gets it. "Apple are treading a very fine line with this application though between functionality and bloat, now I am very pleased to say that in my opinion they are definitely on the right side of that line at the moment." This is what it's all about. It's slightly ...

Apple and mach.

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

James Stoup has written a long-winded bit of speculative fiction about how, with the departure of Avi Tevanian from Apple, Mac OS X might be switched to the monolithic Linux kernel. Of course, xnu, the hybrid kernel used in Mac OS X is derived from the mach microkernel but is not ...

What exactly is SyncServices

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

Easter was a very quiet weekend for many. Certainly the roads were empty and everywhere important was closed. For my part I spent the weekend with the kids and also building a new workshop for the day job so it was busy. John Welch also posted an article about SyncServices which ...

CL2

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

Google CL2 was released today and ushered in a new age of fun and frolics for Google critics. Now they not only know what you want (Google Search), they know what you have (Google Desktop), what you buy (Froogle) and where you are (Google Maps) but now when you're going ...

The Reality of Web TV

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

Of course I don't mean "WebTV" or any of the other failed attemptsWhile at my parents, I glanced at the TV guide and was amazed to find how many Tv programmes on terrestrial and digital channels are dedicated to "reality" TV. Just looking at Thursday - We have "Birmingham's Best ...

RubyCocoa (and SyncServices)

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

In case it hasn't become obvious by now, SyncBridge 1.0 is partially implemented using the RubyCocoa library (for all the usual reasons that one would choose Ruby over Objective-C). I've had to wrap the SyncServices API such that Ruby understands it (and I'll be releasing that very soon as ...

Syncrospector (and show-stopper bugs)

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

This relates to MJ's "Almost done" post earlier. The actual problem was one of poor coincidental timing. I upgraded to 10.4.6, I started using Syncrospector, and I changed some code, all within a few hours of each other. Syncrospector is a developer tool from Apple which allows great insight into the ...