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This is so, so enjoyable. I can't believe they were stupid enough to wait for a press pass. Gizmodo Denied Press Passes for WWDC Keynote: "Brian Lam: It’s no surprise: Apple has not responded to our requests to attend the WWDC keynote on Monday at 10am PST. But we’ll still cover the news. Want to…
The Apple update to the iP(ad|hone|od) developer agreement 3.3.1 has caused quite a stir in developement communities all over. The change is summarized quite adequately here: http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flash_compiler. Queue the posturing and legal bullshit from all sorts of people and companies. Rather than posting comments to all of the different articles I am just going to…
Read more: Apple, open-ness, and Section 3.3.1 an objective view.
Edit: It seems that the publish call didn't go through all the way so I am publishing it again. As a contractor I spend a lot of time working on projects other than my own. To keep track of the things I need to do for each project as well as University classes I have…
In my Computer Science course I was asked to write a program, in Java, that would compute the powers of 2 from 2^1 to 2^20 using only a while statement. At first I tried, with just the basics that we had learned so far, to create the program. Things did not go well because I…
Shorter (read: less content) blog post this week because life has been overly strenuous this week. School has become, almost overwhelmingly, full of homework and reading assignments as well as programming assignments. Besides that, work has been extremely tiring because of the workload and being short handed (for completely valid reasons - I don't blame…
Recently (after upgrading to Snow Leopard) I have been forced to find other twitter clients than the one I had been using for almost a year, Nambu. As a part of the MacHeist offering I got a copy of Twitterrific which I tried for a couple weeks...I hated it. Here they are with their pros…
About 6 months ago I made the switch from TextMate to MacVim because of a couple things: TextMate is kinda, not really being developed anymore Many other options are out there TONs of Python developers post about their editors all the time VIM is hardcore and installed by default on many Linux systems (which I…
I just found the best client/invoice/time tracking application ever. The rundown: 3 free users 3 invoices per month $9.99 per month to get unlimited invoices more users? $3.99 per user from there your own subdomain open name spaces on your subdomain your logo on the invoice unlimited clients and projects mac widget browser based tracking…
I found, from one of those Mac freelancer pages, a new IRC client. OMG is it nice. If you have a Mac or iPhone and want IRC to be...useable. Check out Colloquy. Tabbed interface AppleScript Plugins File transfers Mobile FREE!!!
Seriously, WTF? Demo? Check out this moron. I read the #django-users' list and it seems that, almost daily, there is someone that has a problem installing django on Vista or XP. Who would host a server running Vista or XP? I hope, NO ONE. What kind of moron would trust Microsoft with his/her data? Also,…
Read more: WTF is with "developers" using Windows to write code? *updated*