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March 30, 2007

Be assertive

Most imperative programming consists of lists of instructions, where subsequent instructions tend to depend on the results of previous instructions: 01 get A 02 pass A to B, producing C 03 get D 04 add C and D to get...

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Posted by wincent at 12:11 PM

March 28, 2007

You can run but you can't hide; why even run?

Spammers. The scourge of the Internet. We have so much to thank them for: The waves of junk mail pouring into our inboxes. The painful challenge-response systems that stop us from sending legitimate email. The DNS blacklists that make sending...

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Posted by wincent at 1:10 PM

March 25, 2007

Synergy Advance build number changes

As of today the build numbering system used in Synergy Advance has undergone a once-off change and I wanted to explain here to help clear up any confusion that it may cause. The changes are described in full in the...

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Posted by wincent at 5:05 PM

March 21, 2007

Synergy one-day sale: licenses for $4.50

In conjunction with MacUpdate, Synergy will be available for sale tomorrow for the steal price of only $4.50. The sale is for one day only (22 March 2007), starting at midnight (US Eastern Time). Once the sale starts you'll be...

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Posted by wincent at 6:16 PM

March 20, 2007

Involuntary reboot log #8

You could argue that this one is my fault but I like to blame it on the Mac OS X dependence on NetInfo for user information. I was trying to find out why another machine on my local network was...

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Posted by wincent at 6:38 PM

March 14, 2007

Planned changes to development model

I've commented elsewhere that I plan on approximating a continuous integration model of development in future releases of Synergy Advance (and all my products in fact). In my comment I wrote: After several months of positively "seismic" changes to the...

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Posted by wincent at 1:48 PM

March 13, 2007

Using MediaWiki markup from within MovableType

I like to keep an eye on Gervase Markham's weblog. Today he published an article about converting MediaWiki markup to HTML. It turns out that that is something I've wanted to do for some time now. Well, not so much...

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Posted by wincent at 5:32 PM

Improved Google search and AdSense

I've made some minor changes to the Google-powered site search today, namely, adding a Wincent logo and header to the search results: I've also added some Google AdSense advertising to the Knowledge Base wiki. I don't plan to ever put...

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Posted by wincent at 4:15 PM

March 12, 2007

A call for help: Bansshee

Update, 16 March 2007: Charles Steinman has kindly donated to cover the registrations for all three domains (dot-org, dot-com and dot-net). I'm leaving the original text of the post below for the historical record. Ooooh, I hope the title of...

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Posted by wincent at 3:25 PM

March 8, 2007

Bizarre display glitch

The most bizarre drawing glitch I've ever seen, provoked by trying to resize the frontmost Safari window; another, unaffected Safari window is visible in the background: Not sure if it's a bug in Safari, Mac OS X, or both....

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Posted by wincent at 2:34 PM