Monthly Archives: October 2008

Solaris iPhone Edition

Posted on 2008-10-30 by Graham Lee

Apple’s one new feature in Snow Leopard is support for Exchange, which if not squarely an Enterprise lure is certainly bait for medium businesses. But here we hit Apple’s perennial problem; they want to sell more into businesses (because that’s … Continue reading →

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All you never wanted to know about temporary files and were too ambivalent to ask

Posted on 2008-10-19 by Graham Lee

In the beginning, there was mktemp. And it was good. Actually, that’s a load of rubbish, it wasn’t good at all. By separating the “give me the name of a temporary file” and “open the file” stages, there’s a chance … Continue reading →

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It was asked for: the “features” post

Posted on 2008-10-15 by Graham Lee

Someone anonymous once said:I’m intrigued by your feature comment. Please publish said blog post!Where said comment was:The fact that I have stopped using the word ‘feature’ in many contexts is an entire blog post and a few therapy sessions in … Continue reading →

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The view(s) from the hotel

Posted on 2008-10-05 by Graham Lee

Which two buildings are across the street from my current location? and anyone might think it had been deliberately chosen for comedy purposes…

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Properties about a year on

Posted on 2008-10-04 by Graham Lee

Leopard has now been out for nearly a year, which means that (publicly) we’ve had Objective-C 2.0 for the same amount of time. At the release many developers were champing at the bit to talk about the new language capabilities[], … Continue reading →

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