Author Archives: Graham Lee

Walking a mile dans ses chausseurs

Posted on 2008-08-29 by Graham Lee

The word ‘translator’ has an interesting history. In the Anglo-Saxon language, ‘wealhstod’ meant “learned in Welsh” more or less, and described someone who could parlay with the important members of the local British tribes. As is often the case with … Continue reading →

Posted in cocoa, i18n, l10n | Leave a comment

Next CocoaHeads Swindon meeting

Posted on 2008-08-27 by Graham Lee

1st September (that’s this coming Monday), in the Glue Pot, Swindon. 8:00pm start. Chris Walters will talk about, well, something, and we’ll be drinking beer, listening and occasionally chipping in. See you there!

Posted in whatevs | Leave a comment

So are Macs uber-pricey?

Posted on 2008-08-17 by Graham Lee

No, but Sony Vaios are.

Posted in whatevs | Leave a comment

Back from holiday

Posted on 2008-08-13 by Graham Lee

I went on holiday to Stockholm this week. Of the ~1.5GB I downloaded from the camera, this was the photo I thought most apt to describe the experience on this blog:

Posted in pictures | 1 Comment

Cocoa#, Mono and Me

Posted on 2008-07-29 by Graham Lee

My great application: Yeah, OK, not so great. But this Inverse Hoffman is the result of a couple of hours hacking in Mono, with Cocoa#. My app’s largely based on the Stupid Word Counter tutorial, though it’s a from-scratch implementation … Continue reading →

Posted in cocoa, mono | 1 Comment

Microblogging

Posted on 2008-07-22 by Graham Lee

For a long time, I deliberately avoided microblogs like twitter. I thought that they were simply an acknowledgement that people want to be published more than they want to have something to say. However, it would be rude of me … Continue reading →

Posted in crosspost, meta-interwebs | Leave a comment

Common sense writ large

Posted on 2008-07-21 by Graham Lee

Looking at the bottom of Apple’s Q3 results, as indeed with any similar publication from a US publicly-traded company, we see the following text. This press release contains forward-looking statements including without limitation those about the Company’s estimated revenue and … Continue reading →

Posted in Business | Leave a comment

Designing a secure Cocoa application

Posted on 2008-07-18 by Graham Lee

That’s the title of next month’s CocoaHeads Swindon, and I’ll be leading the presentation/discussion. So if you want to learn a little about how to ensuring your Cocoa app doesn’t give away the keys to the kingdom, or have some … Continue reading →

Posted in cocoa, metadev, security | Leave a comment

Ah, the sweet sound of my own voice

Posted on 2008-07-14 by Graham Lee

The title is a linky to the press release regarding the edition of Sophos Podcasts I recorded with Carole, and which has now (clearly) gone live. In it we mainly talk about the data theft and Macs technical paper I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, security | 2 Comments

CocoaHeads Swindon

Posted on 2008-07-08 by Graham Lee

Just got back from the first meeting of Swindon CocoaHeads, featuring a bunch of people who live nowhere near Swindon, some good beer and the occasional discussion of Cocoa. Special mention to Scott who came all the way from sunny … Continue reading →

Posted in whatevs | 1 Comment