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Author Archives: Graham Lee
A lack of CocoaHeads
Apologies to anyone sat in the Glue Pot wondering where the nerds are. Due to a general feeling of bitter colditude we’ve postponed for a couple of weeks. But never fear, Scotty shall still wax forth on SearchKit on the … Continue reading
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Most favouritest and least favourite Macs
The current meme seems to be, given the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Mac (and I’m not going to let it slip by that it’s the 20th anniversary of the NEXTSTEP 1.0 launch this year, either) to write … Continue reading
Tautology of the year (so far)
From iDefense, via DarkReading: A recent wave of fatwas issued by radical Islamic religious leaders in that region authorizing these groups to use cyberattacks to defend Islam has opened the door for these groups to wage cyberattacks, according to iDefense. … Continue reading
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Quick antispam observation
One thing I’ve been doing recently is removing my membership of a load of websites that I don’t seem to have used in a long time. One side effect of not using a website in a long time is that … Continue reading
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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
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