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Author Archives: Graham Lee
WWDC – day one
The WWDC keynote is always an odd event to attend. It’s put on for the benefit of the investors and the media, with the developers being invited purely to act as braying masses expressing their adulation for His Steveness. It’s … Continue reading
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WWDC part 0
well, here it is, the pre-WWDC “I’m jetlagged so you have to put up with my wittering” post. I’m just waiting for a softwareupdate to finish so that I can go out with my camera, taking some early-morning pictures before … Continue reading
This means business
This is the design of the business card I’ll be taking to WWDC. Let’s look at some notable features. Photo in top left. I don’t know about you, but I find it much easier to remember what someone looks like … Continue reading
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Little hack to help with testing
Want the ability to switch in different test drivers, mock objects, or other test-specific behaviour? Here’s a pattern I came up with (about a year ago) to do that in a GNUstep test tool, which can readily be used in … Continue reading
Wistfully Wonderful Den of Coders
It’s the time of the year to acknowledge that yes, I am going to WWDC this year. Left it a bit last minute to get the flights and the hotel, but everything is in place now so hopefully I’ll see … Continue reading
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Managers: Don’t bend it that far, you’ll break it!
Go on then, what’s wrong with the words we already have? I think they’re perfectly cromulent, it’s very hard to get into a situation where the existing English vocabulary is insufficient to articulate one’s thoughts. I expect that linguists and … Continue reading
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