November 2007
Programming Nu →
Nu is an interpreted object-oriented language. Its syntax comes from Lisp, but Nu is semantically closer to Ruby than Lisp. Nu is written in Objective-C and is designed to take full advantange of the Objective-C runtime and the many mature class libraries written in Objective-C.
Ten New Things in WebKit 3 →
Lately we’ve been talking about a lot of great new features in the latest development trunk of WebKit - features like web fonts, client-side database storage, CSS transforms and CSS animation. These features will likely make it to an official release someday. But I’d like to take a step back and talk about some older features, namely all the great stuff in our recent stable release.
activeobjects: Home →
ActiveObjects is an intuitive, pure-Java ORM. AO is designed from the ground up to be extremely simple and easy to use from an API standpoint. AO can be used with either an existing database schema, or it can auto-generate the database schema from the user-specified entity interfaces.
iTunes-style scrollbars released for Leopard →
Though Leopard brought with it a consistent user interface across its windows and controls, those looking to truly unify Aqua will need to match up with iTunes’ infamous purple scrollbars.
macosxhints.com - 10.5: Add Quick Look support for... →
I have a lot of files that contains data in plain text format with different extensions — things like .cfg, .dat and .tex. However, those files are not recognized by the Quick Look viewer. It is possible to make these other files visible with the default Quick Look viewers by simply adding a UTI (Uniform Type Identifiers) file reference to an application’s Info.plist file.
VMware Fusion: Resize a virtual disk
Vdiskmanager is now available as a command-line tool with VMware “Fusion” Beta 2. It is available from /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion as vmware-vdiskmanager. Make sure you have a back up of your virtual machines before running vdiskmanager against your virtual machines, since “Fusion” is beta software. See below for the help from the vdiskmanager command line...
Open Handset Alliance →
Android™ will deliver a complete set of software for mobile devices: an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications.
rucola: A Framework for building Cocoa... →
Rucola is a light weight framework that helps you write RubyCocoa apps. It allows you to build, test, and deploy applications using rake commands, eliminating the need to use XCode, however you can use XCode if you wish.
Svnmerge.py →
svnmerge.py is a tool for automatic branch management. It allows branch maintainers to merge changes from and to their branch very easily, and automatically records which changes were already merged. This allows displaying an always updated list of changes yet to be merged, and totally prevents merge mistakes (such as merging the same change twice).