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June 25, 2005

Dreaming about the server upgrade

Since the disk corruption on the server the other day I have done a lot of thinking about how I could minimize downtime and speed-up disaster recovery.

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Posted by wincent at 4:33 PM

June 16, 2005

Apple's bugreporter

Use Apple's bugreporter. It's one way in which we can all help Mac OS X to get better. I'm not the most disciplined of bug reporters to Apple because I don't like their interface, but I have been filing more bug reports lately.

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Posted by wincent at 6:15 PM

June 13, 2005

Mock objects in WOTest

Well, continuing on from my last post on the topic I'm blazing ahead with my unit testing framework, WOTest.

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Posted by wincent at 4:34 PM

June 12, 2005

PayPal scammers

In the last month I have received 26 emails from mindless scammers trying to lure me to their phoney websites and enter my PayPal details (along with my banking information, social security number and everything else).... Many of these fools don't even speak English.

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Posted by wincent at 10:04 AM

Handling exceptions with custom root classes

Apple's Objective-C runtime allows you to throw any object as an exception.

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Posted by wincent at 3:51 AM

June 9, 2005

Unit testing and why it suddenly became more important

I'm a big fan of unit testing.

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Posted by wincent at 2:09 PM

June 6, 2005

The move to Intel

If it means more powerful computers then I'm all for it. But I wince when I think about how painful the transition is going to be...

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Posted by wincent at 2:43 PM