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Jackass Of The Week: John Gruber

Image by Laughing Squid via Flickr

As much as I dislike Apple as a company I do tend to like John Gruber and his analysis.  He is an ass like me most of the time which probably helps.  This time though he goes to far.  He points out that some tests with Flash on the Android [...]

An Open Letter To Steve Jobs RE: iPad Naming

On behalf of Fujitsu (PDF), Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, and Coconut Grove Intimates (now defunct, even the WayBackMachine couldn’t help me) I would like to put forth the following open letter to Steve Jobs and Apple Computers.  I shall be as brief as my predecessor.
Change your devices name. Not that big of a deal.
Look familiar to you?  [...]

Tip: Search Current Folder in Mac OS 10.5 Lepoard Finder

If you want this to work correctly in Leopard, don’t enable the Finder preference “Always open folders in a new window.” When this preference is enabled, Command-F (⌘F) will bring up a search window with the only options being “This Mac” and your home folder. When this preference is disabled, the two options [...]

Objective-C Classes and Metaclasses

I had intended to eventually put together a brief post on the Objective-C runtime, specifically the class system structure, but Greg Parker over at the Hamster Emporium has beaten me to it with his recent article, Classes and metaclasses. In any case, I thought I’d go ahead and post the diagram that I had prepared…

The B Programming Language

I’ve been exploring the B programming language. I’ve had a casual interest in this for years and have only recently dug into it a little deeper. I created the following comparison to C for myself and anyone else who may be interested…

Mobile Safari

I have complained (ad nauseum) about “crashy crashy bang bang”, a.k.a Mobile Safari. Then low and behold iPod firmware 2.2 came out. Credit where credit is due I have yet to see Mobile Safari crash once since that update. That is a big deal. Safari was one of the (for me) [...]

Spawning sub-shells

Creating sub-shells in bash is simple: just put the commands to be run in the sub-shell inside parentheses. This causes bash to start the commands as a separate process. This group of commands essentially acts like a separate script file, their input/output can be collectively redirected and/or they can be executed in the background by [...]

Remembering the shells special variables…

I can never seem to remember what all of these default parameter variables are. I found this small shell script that prints them out when I forget.
#!/bin/sh -vx
#######################################################
# example_1.1 (c) R.H.Reepe 1996 March 28 Version 1.0 #
#######################################################
echo “Script name is [$0]”
echo “First Parameter [...]

Eido Test

So I wrote a EidoGo SGF Viewer plugin for WordPress. It’s not quite ready to go yet but I will release it once I get it done.
Below is the highly famous “Blood-Vomiting Game”.

Updates to come.

iTunes: Time for Some Trust-Busting

I submitted the following to the iTunes Feedback page. It will probably be ignored, but I figured it was worth a shot.
Over the years, the iTunes application has become a very large and all-encompassing media platform. It has become a “jack of all trades, and master of none.” As it has expanded [...]

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