Entries in the ' apple ' category

Written July 23, 2008 in apple, reviews, webdev

Why’s it been so quiet? Why so many reading lists, and so little editorial? I’ve been doing consulting work like a madman — I’ve got some doggy stuff to pay for, I’ve got some expensive toys I need for a job next month, and I’ve got a day job to …

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Written June 18, 2008 in apple, punditry

Jobs’ greatest contributions at Apple have likely been to kill or sideline a lot of good projects in order to focus the company’s efforts and resources on only the most exceptional ones. In contrast, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have apparently thrown every product concept within Microsoft at the market

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Written June 16, 2008 in apple, puppy, reading list, webdev

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Written June 12, 2008 in apple, howto

The version of the command-line svn client for OSX is badly out of date — I think it’s 1.1 or something stupid like that. (Apple has done a poor job of keeping command line utils up to date!)

The SCPlugin available via the Tigris.org website is -OK-, but not …

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Written June 9, 2008 in apple

Saw this pop up in my feeds (thanks, Kris!) and I think it’s a brilliant idea. My “gateway drug” was a Mac Mini that I bought as a web testing machine.

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Written May 30, 2008 in apple

Does anyone know what the first layer inside the MacBook Pro’s power adapter cable (the end with the MagSafe on it) does? Is it the ground, or is there current running through it? I just noticed today that after a year of winding and rewinding it, the outer jacket has …

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Written May 16, 2008 in apple, webdev

Proving that yet again the Mac is the premier development environment for everything web-related, Google has released an App Engine Launcher for OSX, which delivers and includes the App Engine SDK.

(Via ReadWriteWeb.)

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Written April 13, 2008 in apple

Sebastiaan de With covers the encroachment of Helvetica into Mac OSX UI Design. Via Daring Fireball.

With the most recent re-do of my blog, I was very careful with the typography. Essentially, the entire interface is typography — there are no images. No backgrounds, no toothpicks, nothing. White space …

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Written April 5, 2008 in apple, howto, php, webdev, wordpress

You might be wondering what these three things have to do with one another.

The basic gist is that I’m trying to use the Wordpress 2.5 RSS widget to read in my Google Reader ’shared items’ feed. Google Reader will publish your shared items in an Atom RSS feed. For a sample, you can see mine here.

The RSS feed is all fine and dandy. It’s valid, it’s namespaced correctly, and it’s got all but one of the required elements. The problem comes when you try to parse it with Magpie. Inside the “entry”, there’s a “title”. There’s also a “source”. The “source” has a “title” attribute as well.

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Written April 1, 2008 in apple

If Apple had actually put a lot of thought into the Spaces feature on Leopard, a lot of things would be different. Spaces seems to have been ripped out of whatever the deveoper’s favorite Linux desktop manager was, and pasted down in OSX with a bare minimum of programming work.

First …

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