Japanese URLs
Cabel is just back from Japan and notes that Japanese adds show search bars with suggested search terms instead of URLs.
Cool…
dummynet for Simulating Bad Connections
It’s cool that dummynet is a part of the ipfw firewall letting you test your app with a slow connection. If you’re only testing with a high speed pipe it might be an eye opener to see how it behaves on a lousy connection.
man dummynet:
DESCRIPTION
dummynet is a system facility [...]
Objective-C initialize method
One thing that makes Objective-C interesting is that it is very, very close to C. In fact, it is really just C plus a few language extensions plus a runtime.
It is the addition of a runtime (albeit a very light one) that travels along with every Objective-C program, that gives it its dynamic nature. [...]
1000 True Fans
Kevin Kelly writes about an idea that would well-serve many MicroISVs, that of trying to get 1000 True Fans:
“The point of this strategy is to say that you don’t need a hit to survive. You don’t need to aim for the short head of best-sellerdom to escape the long tail. There is a place in [...]
Canada Too Cold for IPhone? Please…
In the category of most ridiculous reason the IPhone isn’t in Canada yet:
“While we can’t say with certainty that this is the one issue that’s stopping iPhone from coming to Canada, just by simple calculations it turns out that Canadians would need to operate their iPhone in “nonoperating temperatures” for about 4 months a year [...]
Shipley iPhone Fish
Wil Shipley gets a cool mention in the LA Times:
“Wil Shipley, a Seattle software developer, uses his iPhone at the Whole Foods fish counter to check websites for updates on which seafood is the most environmentally correct to purchase. He quizzes the staff on where and how a fish was caught. Because he carries the [...]
Tim Burks C4 Video
Tim Burks the creator of Nu, an object oriented Lisp written in Objective-C, and RubyObjC from last year’s C4[1]:
Firefox, WebKit, and Coalesced Updates
As a Mac programmer it’s interesting to read this investigation as to why Firefox 2 didn’t suffer from the same frame rate cap that was being seen in Firefox 3:
“The reason why Firefox 2 wasn’t affected was that Fx2 was not a Cocoa app; it is a Carbon app, and as such was exempt from [...]
Singapore Gets the IPhone Before Canada
Man, the IPhone is like, never, coming to Canada….
Using Git with .Mac
Marcus Zarra on the peanut butter combination that is .Mac and Git:
“They work amazingly well together and make it very easy for me to push my code changes off-site even when I am not actually connected to the net. The basic configuration is fairly simple. I created a private directory on .mac, set up a [...]
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