Jon Baer

Testing out LifeCast on the iPhonePosted with LifeCast

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:14:00 -0400

Testing out LifeCast on the iPhone

Posted with LifeCast

SecureMac identifies first ARDAgent-based trojan - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:42:54 -0400

SecureMac identifies first ARDAgent-based trojan - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): SecureMac identifies first ARDAgent-based trojan

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:09:16 -0400

Photo

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:54:00 -0400

Smart Scroll - smooth and easy iPhone-like scrolling

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:20:39 -0500

Smart Scroll - smooth and easy iPhone-like scrolling: Smart Scroll offers smooth and easy iPhone-like scrolling: * Super Scroll makes your scroll wheel or trackpad smoother, faster and more comfortable. And it lets you reverse scrolling on the Mac to match your iPhone. Try it! * Grab Scroll gives you a openHand tool to easily move (and “throw”!) any window’s contents.

AssertEfficientSql

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:38:51 -0500

AssertEfficientSql: The assertion intercepts and copies out your MySQL SELECT statements, then calls EXPLAIN on each one, and inspects the results for common problems. The goal is test cases that resist database pessimization, even as you change your data relations, to add new features. If you run your tests after every few changes, you can easily detect which change broke your database‘s indices and relations. Credits to Jay Pipe for his excellent little survey of ways to detect pessimizations!

skynet

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:51:42 -0500

skynet: Skynet is an open source Ruby implementation of Google’s Map/Reduce framework, created at Geni.com. With Skynet, one can easily convert a time-consuming serial task, such as a computationally expensive Rails migration, into a distributed program running on many computers.

Web Inspector Update

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:24:16 -0500

Web Inspector Update:

Inline CSS Editing

Programming Nu

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:48:34 -0500

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

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:32:37 -0500

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

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:01:30 -0500

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

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:00:15 -0500

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 certain file formats

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:22:13 -0500

macosxhints.com - 10.5: Add Quick Look support for certain file formats: 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

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:52:41 -0500

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 tool:

VMware Virtual Disk Manager - build 41384.
Usage: vmware-vdiskmanager OPTIONS
Offline disk manipulation utility
Options:
-c : create disk; need to specify other create options
-d : defragment the specified virtual disk
-n : rename the specified virtual disk; need to
specify destination disk-name
-q : do not log messages
-r : convert the specified disk; need to specify
destination disk-type
-x : expand the disk to the specified capacity

Additional options for create and convert:
-a : (for use with -c only) adapter type (ide, buslogic or lsilogic)
-s : capacity of the virtual disk
-t : disk type id

Disk types:
0 : single growable virtual disk
1 : growable virtual disk split in 2Gb files
2 : preallocated virtual disk
3 : preallocated virtual disk split in 2Gb files

The capacity can be specified in sectors, Kb, Mb or Gb.
The acceptable ranges:
ide adapter : [100.0Mb, 950.0Gb]
scsi adapter: [100.0Mb, 950.0Gb]
ex 1: vmware-vdiskmanager -c -s 850Mb -a ide -t 0 myIdeDisk.vmdk
ex 2: vmware-vdiskmanager -d myDisk.vmdk
ex 3: vmware-vdiskmanager -r sourceDisk.vmdk -t 0 destinationDisk.vmdk
ex 4: vmware-vdiskmanager -x 36Gb myDisk.vmdk
ex 5: vmware-vdiskmanager -n sourceName.vmdk destinationName.vmdk

Open Handset Alliance

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:02:26 -0500

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 applications in Ruby

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 09:04:20 -0500

rucola: A Framework for building Cocoa applications in Ruby: 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

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:47:25 -0400

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).

Time Machine Launcher

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:30:45 -0400

Time Machine Launcher: The Time Machine Launcher widget is a simple widget that allows you to launch Time Machine directly from the comfort of your Dashboard.

WhatsNewInLeopard - ruby - Trac

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:17:35 -0400

WhatsNewInLeopard - ruby - Trac: Now that Leopard, the next release of Mac OS X, is available to everyone, you may wonder what changed from the Ruby developer’s perspective.

Mozilla Labs Blog » Blog Archive » Prism

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:42:32 -0400

Mozilla Labs Blog » Blog Archive » Prism: Unlike Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight, we’re not building a proprietary platform to replace the web. We think the web is a powerful and open platform for this sort of innovation, so our goal is to identify and facilitate the development of enhancements that bring the advantages of desktop apps to the web platform.