Monthly Archives: July 2013

Programming Literate Manifesto

Posted on 2013-07-15 by Graham

Late last year, I decided to set up a second blog, focusing on exploring the world of academic literature relevant to our work as people who make software. The tone and content was very different to what I usually write … Continue reading →

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How I got root on my University’s UNIX network

Posted on 2013-07-09 by Graham

Back when I was a student, the way you talked to other people on the internet was via Usenet. The language we used, while still called “English”, was slightly different from the language we use today. One small example of … Continue reading →

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Compatibility

Posted on 2013-07-08 by Graham

Solaris 10, scheduled to be supported until January, 2021, can still run BSD binaries built for Solaris 1 (a retroactive name for SunOS 4.1), released in 1991. I wonder for how long the apps we wrote for our iPhones back … Continue reading →

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AJAX via jQuery in an Objective-C WebObjects app

Posted on 2013-07-04 by Graham

As with using jQuery for DHTML, this was surprisingly easy. To make it simple to follow along I’ve published the source code to SignUp, a sample app. SignUp’s default page is comprised of two WebObjects components: Main is the top-level … Continue reading →

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What’s the mobile app market up to, then?

Posted on 2013-07-03 by Graham

While this post is obviously motivated by Recent Events™, it’s completely not got anything to do with employers past, present or future. Dave has posted what next for Agant which explains how that company’s path through the market has gone: … Continue reading →

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What Graham did next

Posted on 2013-07-01 by Graham

There’s been quite a lot of reaction to this notice on Agant’s website, that Dave is taking the company back to a one-person shop. Indeed that means that I and all of my colleagues (except Dave) are now redundant. Sad … Continue reading →

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At the old/new interface: jQuery in WebObjects

Posted on 2013-07-01 by Graham

It turns out to be really easy to incorporate jQuery into an Objective-C WebObjects app (targeting GNUstep Web). In fact, it doesn’t really touch the Objective-C source at all. I defined a WOJavascript object that loads jQuery itself from the … Continue reading →

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