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NeXT Luminaries

Here I am, trying to look as important as the bunch of people around me.  Right bunch of luminaries they are too, but I won’t spoil the surprise of trying to guess who everyone is.  If you know, comment ahead.  … Continue reading

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Report from WWDC

You’re not going to see many discussions of talks from the conference, and this is no exception.  Beyond the keynote, the only talk I can discuss is one I went to today, which was a public talk by Amit Singh … Continue reading

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Greetings, Jobs-pickers

It seems to be de rigeur to provide a rundown of the top 10 Leopard features from yesterday’s Stevenote, and as I can neither sleep nor be bothered to read sample code, it’s a bandwagon I’m happy to jump on, … Continue reading

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See you at WWDC…?

Going to WWDC this year.  I’m not going to make any technical predictions, because last year I suggested that the Intel rumours were just a rehashing of regularly-repeated hype, and that there’d be a new edition of Hillegas to cover … Continue reading

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Hidden gem

Having been using fink for at least three years, I’m surprised it’s taken me this long to discover the ‘applesystemfonts’ package, which lets you use the, um, Apple system fonts under X.  But I’m glad I did, as it’s no … Continue reading

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Irritating annoying irritationnoyance of the day

WebObjects generated components use a style like this:     public Main(WOContext context) {        super(context);    } But if you add a key using WOBuilder, then its accessors use the following style:     public String username()    … Continue reading

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This year’s WWDC t-shirt?

“‘ad you not nailed it to iTunes, it’d be pushin’ up the daisies!”

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No worries, mate!

Just got a brace of MacBooks, and with the .pvs linked in an earlier post OPENSTEP/Mach works on both with Parallels.

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Swedish chef

Yes, I did write a swedish chef to C translator.  What of it?  My cousin was bitten by a møose once.

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Lest I forget

PIN END ___ /   |ooo| —– bce

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