Date Parsing and Arithmetic on macOS
I recently wrote a shell script that required both date parsing and date arithmetic. The pertinent bits for this post are that the script: Seemed simple enough. A little googling and some experimentation gave...
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Fixing Wireless in Linux, and Why This Should Matter to Apple
In this post, I talked about my travails getting my son’s USB wireless adapter working in Linux. A few weeks later, it stopped working. Puzzling. I opened a terminal and ran: lsusb The computer...
Google snatches up Sparrow team to work on Gmail | Internet & Media – CNET News
Google snatches up Sparrow team to work on Gmail | Internet & Media – CNET News: “Leca says that the company will continue to make Sparrow available, and keep it up and running with...
Mac Bundle Season
I know of four Mac OS X software bundles on sale right now: MacUpdate ($49.99) Parallels Desktop 7 BusyCal ScreenFlow 3 Civilization V Jaksta Espionage 3 Speed Download 5 Attachment Tamer 3 KeyCue 6...
XVim — Vim in Xcode
XVim: I work as a freelance Objective-C developer (amongst other things), so I find myself butting heads with Xcode on a regular basis. Recent releases have integrated several separate applications that betrayed Mac OS’s...
If there’s any doubt that developers have moved to Mac OS X . . . .
A Kickstarter project that caused buzz amongst developers is Light Table, a development IDE that aims to fundamentally shift how we build software. As of right now, it has 5,726 backers (including me) and...
Why I Bought Coda 2 Directly From Panic.com
With advance hype rivaling Diablo III’s, Panic has released the second version of their web development tool, Coda. It’s now on sale, as of this morning, for $49 — a 50% savings that’s good...
How Steve Ballmer Predicted the Downfall of Mac OS X
Back in the year 2000, Steve Ballmer danced, as they say, like a Monkey Boy, chanting, “Developers! Developers! Developers!” in an infinite loop. Sweating like an offensive tackle in August two-a-days, he hopped and...
Eclipse: Insufficient access privileges to apply this update.
I use Eclipse for all my Java development (and Mac OS X for all my development). Today, a bug with portlet deployment to Liferay required me to update my Eclipse installation. For awhile, I’d...
Mac OS X Programming Editor Roundup
When I got my first Mac in 2004, I found few programming editors. Since then, however, Mac OS X has birthed many programming editors that match or beat options on other computing platforms. I’ve...