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January 29, 2007
Writing a parser generator in Ruby
Ruby is my favorite scripting language. Let me clarify: I like Ruby; it generates warm fuzzy feelings in my thorax when I think about it. This is quite different from my response to other scripting languages: Perl tends to provoke...More Development articles
Posted by wincent at 6:15 AM
January 23, 2007
Input Managers
The ownership and permissions on my InputManagers folders (both inside my home folder and at system level): -r-------- 1 root wheel - 0 Jan 27 2006 InputManagers For these restrictions to be effective you should probably revoke group write access...More MOAB articles
Posted by wincent at 12:02 PM
January 21, 2007
Progress notes
Activity on the Subversion log has been quiet lately because I've been working on documentation. In many ways the most mind-numbingly, excruciatingly boring and unrewarding work imaginable. But the truth is I am actually quite enjoying it because as part...More Development articles
Posted by wincent at 7:30 PM
Open source
This whole MOAB thing has piqued my interest in open source, again. When I see Landon Fuller and William Carrel, two very bright and capable developers, jumping through hoops to reverse-engineer Transmit and provide a workaround for an issue in...More MOAB articles
Posted by wincent at 7:06 PM
January 18, 2007
Wincent vs GoDaddy, January 2007 Edition
It's time to renew again and anyone who reads this blog knows how disappointed I am with GoDaddy's renewal prices (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Unable to find a quick link to GoDaddy's current renewal prices on their home page,...More DNS articles , More Opinion articles
Posted by wincent at 2:48 PM
January 17, 2007
The Colloquy MOAB
So today's MOAB entry is a bug in Colloquy, the open source IRC client. As was the case with the earlier VLC bug, it was fixed promptly as soon as it was reported. But this is open source. Why did...More MOAB articles
Posted by wincent at 11:17 AM
January 10, 2007
Responsible disclosure
This time they actually did the right thing: [W]ait for Apple to release a fix (this issue has been reported to them circa a month ago). But there has also been some scandal over the previous issue installing a "root...More MOAB articles , More Opinion articles
Posted by wincent at 9:27 AM
Keynote reactions
Gruber was wrong on just about all counts, but I've got to admit that prior to the keynote I thought that most of his predictions were pretty spot on (note: I haven't actually watched the keynote yet, only read some...More Apple articles
Posted by wincent at 9:05 AM
January 9, 2007
MOAB childishness
I wrote yesterday: [R]eally, "fixing" this stuff with APE is like using a radio-controlled robot to stick a band-aid on the arm of a running child Well, looks like the MOAB fixes group will have to look for another solution...More MOAB articles , More Opinion articles
Posted by wincent at 2:10 PM
January 8, 2007
Month of Apple Bugs update
I continue to disapprove of the disclosure practices of the people running the Month of Apple Bugs (to be clear, I disapprove of how the vulnerabilities are being disclosed, not the fact that disclosure is taking place). Reading the transcript...More MOAB articles , More Opinion articles
Posted by wincent at 2:41 PM
Test-Driven Development
I've previously written about my love affair with Object-Oriented Templating in general terms and as manifested in the beautiful Cheetah templating system. But there are a few minor problems with Cheetah: It doesn't have a #super directive. It doesn't look...More Development articles
Posted by wincent at 2:18 PM
January 6, 2007
Information leakage from the LAN when sending with Mail.app
I was curious to find out why the internal IP address of my Mac OS X machine on my LAN was being leaked into the headers of all my outgoing email messages. Basically, all messages included a header that began...More Net articles
Posted by wincent at 4:05 PM
January 4, 2007
SSL fun
It was just brought to my attention that RapidSSL is running a promotion where you can extend your current SSL certificate for free by one year when you switch over from Comodo. Great. My existing Comodo-supplied certificate, the one that...More Net articles
Posted by wincent at 3:07 PM
January 2, 2007
Month of Apple Bugs
So the Month of Apple Bugs has kicked off and I'm happy about it because I think it will have some positive effects; as the organizers state: This initiative aims to serve as an effort to improve Mac OS X,...More MOAB articles , More Opinion articles
Posted by wincent at 3:14 PM
January 1, 2007
Off-by-one
Well, I fixed the off-by-one glitch mentioned here. The fix was very simple. First, I took some screenshots and was inspecting them at high zoom trying to work out the exact nature of the fault. Once I had some initial...More Development articles
Posted by wincent at 5:12 PM
As I mentioned in the Mini-log, Bugzilla 3.0 has some really nice improvements in store. Favorite changes: Textareas zoom larger when you click in them (optional). You can change the resolution of a bug without re-opening it (long overdue). You...Posted by wincent at 1:40 PM
