It’s been said that you want people to either love your product or hate it. If that’s the goal, Apple is certainly meeting that criteria. Check out this hate site by San Disk. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen such a spiteful competitive ad campaign. Nothing about how good their [...]
I’ve been integrating SQLite into an application I’m building. I wanted to make it part of my build so I could properly create a universal binary and also control which version of SQLite I used (instead of using the Tiger system dylib). I think I came up with a reasonable solution via Xcode.
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A product manager from Apple named Ernest Prabhakar posted a response on one of the Apple mailing lists in response to Tom Yager’s recent column on closing the Darwin X86 kernel. The response basically says that nothing has been decided. Which is basically what I speculated. I translate this as “Apple is [...]
On the xcode-users mailing list, a discussion has started around building a universal binary for SQLite. I’ve been working on my low level database engine for my application and SQLite is at the heart of it. For the past several days, I’ve been working on how to build and package it. As [...]
This morning I saw this editorial by Tom Yager in InfoWorld. He claims that Apple’s OS X is now a “closed proprietary operating system” because Apple hasn’t released the kernel for Darwin on x86 (specifically, xnu). I have several reactions to his statements. Note that I generally think Tom Yager is a [...]
It was inevitable. Sun is going to open source Java. It had to happen. Java is a good language. So is C#. But C#/.Net wouldn’t need to exist had Sun not kept such tight control on Java. If Sun allows Java to truly become open source and take input [...]
I’ve been spending a large amount of time in Xcode and Cocoa lately. I found I would like to customize the file templates created by Xcode for new classes and the like. After some research, I found it is reasonably easy to add your own set of file templates. Here is how [...]
