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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Cocoa Memory Management
It becomes evident, thanks to the mass centralisation of the neverending september effect that is stackoverflow, that despite the large number of electrons expended on documenting the retain/release/autorelease reference counting mechanism for managing memory in Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, UIKit, AppKit, … Continue reading
Wikipedia == fail
On the same day that fark announce the wikipedia irony, I would like to point out a similar situation I saw just today. This is from the Susie Dent entry discussion page: IMDb relies on the contributions of the public, … Continue reading
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better security, not always more security
Today’s investigative investigations have taken me to the land of Distributed Objects, that somewhat famous implementation of the Proxy pattern used for intra-process, inter-process and inter-machine communication in Cocoa. Well, by people who measure whether it’s a performance hog, rather … Continue reading
Whither the codesign interface?
One of the higher-signal-level Apple mailing lists with a manageable amount of traffic is apple-cdsa, the place for discussing the world’s most popular Common Data Security Architecture deployment. There’s currently an interesting thread about code signatures, which asks the important … Continue reading
Posted in darwin, security, usability
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Free apps with macdev ticket
The Mac Developer network currently have a Special Offer running until christmas eve, get a free copy of Changes and Code Collector Pro with your ticket. Both are useful apps for any developer’s arsenal.
Posted in conference, macdevnet
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