CGAffineTransform shortcuts

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Jeff LaMarche on how and when you can avoid matrix multiplication and gain a little performance boost in your Core Animation code.

Visualize your own data in the Google Public Data Explorer

The Official Google Blog

Hey—we've moved. Visit The Keyword for all the latest news and stories from Google Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture Visualize your own data in the Google Public Data Explorer Over the past two years, we’ve…

Steve Kemp: Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze

Planet Debian

Rather than waiting for a few months, as I typically do, I decided to be brave and upgrade my main virtual machine from Lenny to Squeeze. That host runs QPSMTPD, Apache, thttpd, and my blogspam server; nothing too complex or atypical. The upgrade was…

Lucas Nussbaum: Introducing the Debian packaging tutorial

Planet Debian

One of the common complains about Debian packaging is that it’s hard to learn because, while there is quite a lot of high-quality documentation, it is often written more as a reference manual than as a tutorial: it’s great if you already know everything…

Share links between Mac and iOS with Dropbox trickery

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

It's beginning to look like the holy grail for any Mac user that also totes around an iPhone or iPod touch -- being able to open URLs remotely so that one can view them later from the comfort of their big, delicious Mac screen. Thanks to MacStories and…

Debian News: “volatile” archive has been replaced by “squeeze-updates”

Planet Debian

The Debian Volatile archive is discontinued starting with squeeze. It has been replaced by the suite squeeze-updates on the official mirrors. Read the full announcement to know all the details.

Pietro Abate: xen 4 on debian squeeze

Planet Debian

10.6: Disable Spaces workspace change animation

MacOSXHints.com

I ran across this tidbit in the HyperSpaces FAQ and I know I haven't seen it here before (and I'm quite the avid OSX Hints follower). It has really sped up changing between Spaces workspaces for me (which I do probably over 100 times/day). Once you've…

Note to Self: The Web is Slow

Planet Mozilla

Real data and musings on the performance of networks, servers, protocols, and their related folks.

Use Google Apps APIs without writing a program

Google Open Source Blog

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs.