Apple keeps your iCloud data safe

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Now that Apple is asking us to entrust our address books, calendars, files, photos, music and more to iCloud, many Mac and iOS users might be asking the question: "Is it safe?" Chris Foresman over at Ars Technica looked into the security of iCloud and…

22 March 2012

PHP migrates to Git

PHP.net news & announcements

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.2.0 Beta 3. This release is the third and final beta for 7.2.0. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs and incompatibilities in…

20 March 2012

CocosBuilder 1.1 beta out now, open sourced by Zynga

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Cocos2D is an open source framework that developers can use, along with Apple's Xcode software, to help build 2D iPhone games and apps for the App Store. A lot of popular titles are built with this framework, so many that I can guarantee you that you've…

20 March 2012

Update/Create Lion RecoveryHD partition quickly Without Reinstalling

MacOSXHints.com

Apple released the Lion Recovery Update in October, 2011, and, after they updated the Lion recovery partition to 10.7.2, there was a great hint from Clay Caviness who dug into the update and highlighted the the relevant files and commands that it used to…

19 March 2012

Charles Plessy: Debian-installer in a cloud.

Planet Debian

Debian Med prepares a metapackage for multi-purpose image machines, containing packages for bioinformatics that can be used in command line or via scripts, and that do not depend on too many other packages. I would like to prepare such an image for the…

18 March 2012

Git tools for Mozilla

Planet Mozilla

one line of code at a time I've been working on a set of git tools for Mozilla, and I'm pleased to announce them to the community at large. These tools let you easily: * push from git to a public tree (m-i, m-c, etc.), * push from git to try, and Have…

18 March 2012

Canadian Police Recommend Online Spying Tax For Internet Bills

Slashdot

An anonymous reader writes "One of the major unanswered questions about Bill C-30, Canada's lawful access/online surveillance bill, is who will pay for the costs associated with responding to law enforcement demands for subscriber information ('look…

17 March 2012

Mark on ObjC Literals

inessential.com

Mark Dalrymple, Big Nerd Ranch Weblog: Objective-C Literals, Part 1. I’ve wanted this for so long. Simpler code. Easier to read.

16 March 2012