TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
In a piece called Objectively Stylish, the New York Times announced that it has codified Objective-C-style conventions and posted a style guide to GitHub. They write, "The iOS team has been working on our style guide for over a year and we finally decided…
2 August 2013inessential.com
Since I’m always interested in hearing what other teams use to work together and ship their software, I figure I should list what we use to work together on Vesper. MERCURIAL To swim with the current these days is to use git. But I like Mercurial better —…
7 June 2013MySQL Performance Blog
On Friday I gave a presentation on “MySQL Query Patterns, Optimized” for Percona MySQL Webinars. If you missed it, you can still register to view the recording and my slides. Thanks to everyone who attended, and especially to folks who asked the great…
3 June 2013Use Your Loaf
Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, To finish up this recent series of posts on state preservation and restoration I wanted to deal with the situation where you want to prevent previously saved state data from being restored.…
1 June 2013Planet Mozilla
There are many times that you want to write background processes and queue up the tasks so that they can be handled in sequential order. There are any number of queues available for software developers, and one that I’ve really taken a liking to is…
28 May 2013TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
A site-specific browser (SSB) is a great way to "package" a web app you use every day into a dockable, clickable app that maintains its own cookies, settings and preferences versus your everyday web browser config. On the Mac, the easiest way to make an…
28 May 2013Macworld
Back in ancient times—throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s when just 1000 or so fonts were available for desktop computers—designers had a tongue-in-cheek saying among themselves: The one who dies with the most fonts wins! It made sense at the time…
22 May 2013TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
On May 19, 2001, the first two Apple retail store opened up for business. One was located in McLean, Va., while the other was situated in Glendale, Calif. At the time, there were no shortage of critics who expressed serious doubt as to Apple's effort to…
22 May 2013TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Have a need to attach more monitors to your USB 3.0-equipped Mac, but don't want to use a Thunderbolt, Mini DisplayPort, or HDMI port? Kensington may have just the thing for you -- the Universal Multi-Display Adapter (US$79.99 MSRP), AKA the USB 3.0…
12 May 2013Ars Technica » Infinite Loop
Apple is making headlines with rumors of a record-sized bond sale. According to reports, Cupertino is likely taking advantage of historically dirt-cheap interest rates on corporate debt by raising about $17 billion from a series of six types of bond…
1 May 2013