As a budding Mac developer, one of the things that I’ve had to sort out is which source code version control system I want to use. I first started using version control with RCS some 25 years ago. I’ve introduced version control or better version control at several of the jobs I’ve had. […]
Bill McCoy comments about the recent Wired article describing the success of a self published novel Daemon. Bill points out that ultimately Daemon only sold about 1200 copies and that in the publishing trade, sales of less than 5000 copies would be considered “misery”. Further, a typical successful mid-list novel would sell […]
One of the unexpected benefits of my interest in the recent WGA strike was my discovery of a number of screenwriters who maintain quite interesting blogs. One such was John August, who wrote the screenplays for “Big Fish” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” among others. His blog was an excellent source […]
One of my favorite things about the Internet is the vast quantity of interesting content available through it. And yes, I’m rather a big fan of water’s wetness too.That said, it’s still hard to find the good amongst the not so good, even harder to find the things that are personally appealing. By […]
Over the weekend I sent a colleague this post on Charlie Stross’ blog. My colleague is quite involved with eBooks and I thought the report of MobiPocket having problems with their DRM server would be of interest to him.As an aside in my e-mail, I mentioned that I had read and enjoyed Stross’ […]
This weblog entry details the opening of the FreeAgent external drive from Seagate. As the blog entry title suggests, it’s clear that Seagate’s been influenced by Apple’s packaging habits. What I found interesting isn’t so much the overall look (white boxes with decent design) but that they also seem to have done a […]
Related to my last post. This web page at developer.apple.com details the steps to take to work with PyObjC and XCode. It’s also a bit of an endorsement of Python development for the Mac.
The first computer I ever purchased with my own money was a Macintosh LC which, if I recall correctly, cost about $2000 back in 1990 or so. I bootstrapped that LC into a consulting gig that kept me occupied with Mac development for a number of years. A number of Macs […]
My day job is pretty interesting On some projects, over the course of fixing one bug or adding one feature I may write or modify code written in C++, Java, Python and Lua. If our code generator is involved, you can add Perl to that mix. None of those languages is used trivially so I […]
My latest article, “Smalltalk for Everyone” is up on O’Reilly’s OnLAMP site. With this I article, I’m hoping that someone who is initially approaching Smalltalk will get their bearings on the language and the environment in a way that helps them navigate the vast array of information about Smalltalk that’s available.