Archive for April, 2006

Always on, not fast fast fast please

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

Om Malik points out that broadband customers want cheap, not fast broadband. Think about it. Do you really need 10 Mbps downloads for when you're with your computer? Or would you rather have 256 Kbps all day every day. I'm firmly in the latter camp but then I'm adapted to a ...

Turning code into product

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

Joel Spolsky has a fabbo article on why your software company needs more than just programmers. The rest of a software company is there to support the programmers. It's there to make sure the most complex stuff they have to worry about is solving the really hard problems they enjoy ...

Almost done

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

Seems we're almost done.Aidan warned me about a show-stopper bug or two the other day and me, not being a coder, took it as game over. Then two hours later he tells me he's sorted it. I'm still unsure where the problem was - something to do with the ...

Develop for PPC AND Intel.

Sunday, April 9th, 2006

One of the biggest problems with the Intel Transition is the possibility of marginalisation of PowerPC-based computers. This didn't occur much with the transition from MOT 680x0 processors. It took time for applications to be PowerPC-only and there were very few that appeared to be PowerPC-only and completely changed the ...

We have to be nice. Even to eejits.

Friday, April 7th, 2006

I usually like reading at ONLAMP but this article really annoyed me.Should Apple worry about a Console running with the Cell processor? Of course not! The author also claims Sony is making a break from Microsoft and going with Linux in the PS3? Oh, the way they STUCK with Microsoft ...

Any resemblance to journalism is purely coincidental…

Friday, April 7th, 2006

It's incredible. Apparently a PowerPC/Mac OS X version of Photoshop was slower than an Intel/Windows version of Photoshop running on an Intel Mac. Did Rich Brown get paid for this article?

It’s The Software, Silly!

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

In a year, everyone will have a Mac Everyone. Okay, I'll qualify that a little. Everyone you know who actually cares about their computing experience will be using a Mac.I spent a little time today installing Windows 2000 on Parallel's Virtualisation workstation product (free 30 day trial). It's only $50 so for ...

Boot Camp

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

Everyone has blogged about Boot Camp. Give it a rest — it was inevitable.

Apps I use

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

This post comes about for two reasons: 1) My MacBook Pro arrived (yay!) 2) Mike (among others) in work has installed OS X on his Intel laptop. So here is the list of apps I use every day, and ones that I use frequently enough to always have available (in no particular order). TextMate ...

Tongue firmly in cheek

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

Good to see Omni are following our lead and giving insight into their company via a Weblog. Seriously though, it's hard to imagine infurious without OmniGraffle. If only Omni would make it easy for us to collaborate on Graffles over the 'net. And if they could stop the slowdown I kept ...