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January 30, 2006
Rackspace factoids
I got a Christmas card and some calendar cards from my webhost, Rackspace.
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Posted by wincent at 12:53 PM
Build setting inheritance
Managing build settings in Xcode has always been a bit fiddley. You can have per-project build settings (called "Configurations"), and per-target settings (simply called "Build settings") which inherit from the per-project settings and be used to override them.
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Posted by wincent at 1:15 AM
January 27, 2006
My favorite programming book
My favorite programming text of all time is the O'Reilly C Pocket Reference by Peter Prinz and Ulla Kirch-Prinz. If only more books could be written like this. Small, compact, clear, comprehensive, it tells me everything I've ever needed to know about C.
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Posted by wincent at 3:42 PM
January 25, 2006
Embedding build numbers painlessly
Earlier today I was lamenting in the "mini-log" that lives on the left-hand side of my weblog:Synergy Advance is a huge project with lots of dependencies.... It means that if I change a single line of code I end up having to recompile the entire project and that takes many, many minutes.
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Posted by wincent at 6:29 PM
NSNumber vs BOOL
When is an NSNumber better than a BOOL?I have a couple of macros that I define in my code:#define WO_YES [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES]#define WO_NO [NSNumber numberWithBool:NO]This enables me to use NSNumbers just as easily as I would use simple booleans:variable1 = YES; // easyvariable2 = WO_YES; // just as easyWhen is a BOOL better than an NSNumber?When you care about the overhead introduced by using a fully-fledged object instead of a simple BOOL.
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Posted by wincent at 2:35 PM
Locking, double-checked locking and speed
When you're doing multi-threaded programming it's often necessary to use locking to ensure that resources aren't being used in conflicting ways by different threads.
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Posted by wincent at 2:08 PM
January 23, 2006
Spam will be "solved" as of tomorrow
I've already written about this before but a new article has been published and I wanted to comment on it. Bill Gates said spam would be "solved" by now (well, tomorrow to be precise). Microsoft thinks he was right.
Posted by wincent at 5:10 PM
January 20, 2006
Security notes, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
When the old server died I switched to Rackspace. At the same time I switched to Red Hat Enterprise Linux not because I disliked FreeBSD (in fact, I still love it) but because Red Hat was the "most supported" option offered by Rackspace, as far as I could tell.
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Posted by wincent at 3:52 PM
January 16, 2006
Ethical dimensions of pirating iLife 06
Since Apple announced iLife 06 it seems that every man and his dog has set about to pirate it.
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Posted by wincent at 1:40 AM
January 13, 2006
Spam to be eliminated by 24 January 2006
Some good news at last: according to Bill Gates all spam will be eliminated from the world in just under two weeks from now.
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Posted by wincent at 3:33 AM
January 12, 2006
So, Microsoft "quietly ditches" Windows Media Player for Mac
So, Microsoft "quietly ditches" Windows Media Player for Mac.
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Posted by wincent at 1:56 PM
January 11, 2006
Apple is amazing
Apple treats its developers very well indeed.
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Posted by wincent at 2:03 PM
Mac OS X 10.4.4
Mac OS X 10.4.4 is out.
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Posted by wincent at 2:09 AM
January 3, 2006
The iTunes music store
Although I spend a lot of time running and using iTunes I had never purchased anything on the iTunes Music Store, until yesterday.
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Posted by wincent at 3:08 PM
