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October 25, 2006
Xcode tip
I've always had "Continue building after errors" turned off in Xcode for the same reason that I have warnings turned on in the first place: namely, I don't want to miss seeing any problems (or potential problems) in my code....More Development articles
Posted by wincent at 11:51 PM
October 24, 2006
Involuntary Reboot log #6
This time it was my fault, kind of. Trying to do some low-level Mach stuff to work around a bug in Mac OS X, I ran into a different bug in Mac OS X, and this one was enough to...More Involuntary Reboot Log articles
Posted by wincent at 6:50 PM
October 18, 2006
Rackspace customer service
I just opened a ticket asking Rackspace to make some changes to their DNS for me (rather than running my own DNS servers I let Rackspace do it). Typical of Rackspace, my ticket was immediately acknowledged and 7 minutes after...More Net articles
Posted by wincent at 2:57 PM
Old age
Perhaps I am getting old and my vision is failing, perhaps I've been seeing too many "Web 2.0" sites lately, but for whatever reason I've lately been looking at pages on this website and thinking that the font is too...More Miscellaneous articles
Posted by wincent at 11:35 AM
Kagi: a recommendation for developers
I offer two payment options for customers: Kagi and PayPal. I think it's important to offer multiple alternatives because people generally have strong preferences when it comes to making online payments. In this article I want to talk about my...More Opinion articles
Posted by wincent at 10:12 AM
October 16, 2006
Bansshee performance
So Bansshee is out. I wrote it back in April this year and since then it has been performing without skipping a beat. It's been running non-stop since I first deployed it. I only reboot the server for kernel updates...More Net articles
Posted by wincent at 4:54 PM
October 15, 2006
Involuntary Reboot log #5
Much like last time but with an updated version of the OS, again a panic on boot. Tried unplugging the USB cable connecting the UPS and was able to boot. Disk Utility reported one error on the volume containing the...More Involuntary Reboot Log articles
Posted by wincent at 4:37 PM
October 14, 2006
Object-oriented templating
I'm in the process of falling in love with object-oriented templating, and specifically with the Cheetah Python-powered templating engine. I've always been a big fan of code re-use. This site, for example, has a number of re-usable elements that appear...More Development articles
Posted by wincent at 4:39 PM
October 8, 2006
Customer service
Does this look like the website of a bank that actually cares about providing its customers with service? "Contact us. We're all ears", they say. Just one of the reasons why I am looking forward to Leopard....More Opinion articles
Posted by wincent at 7:30 PM
What's cool about Key-Value Coding?
Thanks to Key-Value Coding and a nice method on NSArray you can do nice things like this......More Cocoa articles
Posted by wincent at 5:02 PM
