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Archive for February, 2010
Get more space with HSF+ compression
26, Feb 2010Sneaky… apple added HSF+ compression to SL and compressed most of their executables with it. Read the link for details, it a very clever, backward compatible HACK.
Anyway, we can use that now (conveniently) with Squeeze! And as a matter of fact, it’s currently free for MacHeist-Users.
Best thing? It makes my mac even faster. CPU is [...]
- In: Mac OS X
Namespaces and ObjectiveC
25, Feb 2010Missing namespaces are a a huge problem in objectivec – something that can’t be solved easily. And the more third-party libs you use, the more trouble it gets.
Imagine, I had to rename my model classes after linking with the MessageUI Framework (InApp Email) because “Message” and “Account” classes are used by Apple. Private ones, not documented, [...]
- In: ObjectiveC
This Week’s Links
25, Feb 2010Url Shorteners are evil
http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners.html
Solution: keep your urls short, or use a self hosted shortener
How Google’s Alorithm Rules the Web
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_google_algorithm
Firefox 3.6 now supports gradients. But the syntax is different to WebKit.
http://www.broken-links.com/tests/gradients/index.html
Increase xml building in ruby/rails 10x with fast_xs
http://blog.semergence.com/2009/02/01/rails-builder-is-slow-but-easy-to-fix/
Vorratsdatenspeicherung: Du kannst dich nicht mehr verstecken:
http://www.faz.net/s/RubF3CE08B362D244869BE7984590CB6AC1/Doc~E2DB28F0A1D814E61BD8AE675DE76A85F~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html
“Und wenn sich jemand als nicht hinreichend geschwätzig erweist, kann [...]
- In: LInks
Worst Progress Dialog EVER.
24, Feb 2010Dear Microsoft,
Why are there two stop buttons for one progress, and why are they both disabled?
Why don’t you do it just like copy and make a little (X) at the end?
WHY THE HELL does this dialog pop up out of nowhere on my screen?
Why is the progress cycler not aligned and the “Now updating” so [...]
- In: Design
On project management
22, Feb 2010Lesson learned today: Use different email accounts for different projects. This seems to be the only valid solution to my email-lookup-obsession.
This also keeps mixing your private account with your support emails. I should have done this from the start, but convenience told me not to.
There’s also the problem that you can’t be logged in into [...]
- In: Productivity
