Mac OS X 10.4 includes the ICU library but no simple way to actually use it. ICU is an open source Unicode library developed by IBM for Unicode and Locale-dependent functionality. Apple provides the library (/usr/lib/libicucore.dylib) in a standard Mac OS X installation but no headers to compile against the library. [...]
I’ve turned iTunes2web into an open-source application and released it under the New BSD License. I’ve chosen Google Code to host the project. The project page is pretty minimal at this time but you can browse the repository and build the project. I chose Google code because I like Google and I like subversion. [...]
I was waiting in the airport and decided to buy a Sudoku book. I knew the game and thought it would be a nice way to pass some time. I bought the book with The Times logo on it. We only had a pen with us and I knew that people typically used pencils [...]
There are still times when the speed of a computer surprises me. I feel like I should be over this; it shouldn’t surprise me but it still happens. There are also times when the slowness of a computer doesn’t surprise me. When coming up with a solution to a coding problem, it can [...]
A guy on darwin-dev included the following in his signature that I thought was apropos to software development: Everyone who comes in here wants three things: They want it quick. They want it good. They want it cheap. I tell ‘em to pick two and call me back. [...]
ouch. An Office developer talks about transitioning to Xcode.
OmniGroup keeps track of the hardware and software configurations of its users. They just updated the web interface to this info. 11% of their users are using Intel macs. Looks like it’s time to get an Intel Mac for iTunes2web.
I’ve started a company SlipperySoft LLC to sell iTunes2web as shareware. Today, I released version 1.0 of iTunes2web to the public.
I put together a new style for iTunes2Web over the weekend. I think it looks pretty nice albeit bandwidth intensive. I probably won’t release a new version until 2006.
I don’t use the new features in Tiger all that much but occasionally they are a real timesaver. Today, I was adding album art features to iTunes2Web and I ended up with a big directory of files, some of which were images. I wanted to see what I had done. I was able to [...]