Anatomy of a web service — Part 3

Planet Mozilla

I am pursuing the RedBarrel experiment, mainly by writing some documentation to show how things work. If you don’t recall what I am talking about, read back the two previous blog entries: I added a full demo in the documentation, that explains how to…

19 July 2011

David Tomaschik: Automatically Creating Archives from Git Tags

Planet Ubuntu

At work, we've been moving all of our development processes to git. As part of that, I've encouraged that alphas, betas, and releases be tagged in git -- it's important to know which versions are in use where. Additionally, my director wanted archives…

16 July 2011

Week in Apple: migrating to Lion edition

Ars Technica » Infinite Loop

The Mac OS X Lion release was widely anticipated for this week, but alas, it wasn't meant to be. Still, we have a guide on how to migrate to a new Mac with Lion without using Apple's Migration Assistant and discussed Apple's commitment to creative pros.…

16 July 2011

Supporting older versions of iOS

Use Your Loaf

Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, With the release of iOS 5 expected sometime in September is it time to drop support for 3.1.3 and only support 4.x and later? If so what version of iOS 4.x should you target as a minimum…

13 July 2011

Michael Prokop: Creating 32bit Debian packages in 64bit environments

Planet Debian

i386 systems are dying off and therefore building 32bit Debian packages in 64bit environments is important if you still need packages for i386. For some recent projects I had to set up 64bit-only environments with the need to provide 32bit packages for…

12 July 2011

Mark Shuttleworth: Fantastic engineering management is…

Planet Ubuntu

I’m going to write a series of posts on different career tracks in software engineering and design over the next few months. This is the first of ‘em, I don’t have a timeline for the rest but will get to them all in due course, and am happy to take…

12 July 2011

Dev Juice: Help me set up a multiperson dev team

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Dear Dev Juice, We have a 3 man dev team with the iOS developer program (as a small company plan) and we are getting ready to move up to Xcode 4 once Lion is out to the public and the have a stable sdk. What is the best way to set all of our systems so we…

9 July 2011

Creating a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Bootable Flash Drive

Slashdot

WankerWeasel writes "With the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion this month, Apple will no longer offer a bootable installer DVD and is making 10.7 Lion available only through the App Store. This guide provides quick instructions on how to use the OS X 10.7…

7 July 2011

Real-Time Text Over Jabber/XMPP/Google Talk

Slashdot

mdrejhon writes "Geeks who miss the UNIX 'talk' days, have a new modern savior: XMPP.org has published the new XEP-0301 Real-Time Text standard, which allows streaming text that is continuously transmitted as it is typed or otherwise composed. It allows…

7 July 2011