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April 28, 2007

Involuntary reboot log #10

Twice in one day... Involuntary reboot stats to date Operating system version: undisclosed Kernel panics: 6 Hard resets: 4 Total failures: 10 Start of recording keeping: 21 May 2006 Total days to date: 342 days Average time between failures: 34...

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Posted by wincent at 12:50 AM

April 27, 2007

Verbatim

Currently running a huge merge between the Tiger and Leopard branches of one of my projects (WOCommon). SVK really makes this kind of thing a breeze... I was about to say, "I don't know how I ever lived without it",...

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Posted by wincent at 7:09 PM

Involuntary reboot log #9

After a day spent trying to get the minimum number of development tools installed onto a clean install of a certain version of a certain OS, I finally decided to throw in the towel and give up. Unusable. The thing...

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Posted by wincent at 4:05 PM

April 25, 2007

Test results

The test result notifications mentioned earlier are now done:...

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Posted by wincent at 5:58 PM

Test process improvements

Yesterday and today I've been working on improving the automated testing process used when building products like Synergy Advance and Hextrapolate....

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Posted by wincent at 1:25 PM

April 23, 2007

Help!

I previously wrote about how pleased I was with my new workflow for creating end-user help documentation. In that article I said: The sky really is the limit on this one. One of the things that has always frustrated me...

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Posted by wincent at 3:46 PM

April 13, 2007

Leopard in October

So it's official, not just a rumor. we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers...

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Posted by wincent at 6:16 PM

Google Summer of Code projects

Will be following these with interest: Write a Ruby parser in ANTLR 3.0 (Ruby) dcov - Ruby documentation coverage analyzer (Ruby) And with somewhat less interest (but still interested!): VLC Mac OS X Framework Implementation (VLC) An augmented diff representation...

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Posted by wincent at 2:59 PM

April 12, 2007

Payoff time

Along with my other development work, since the start of the year I've been working on an object-oriented templating system called Walrus. Its functionality is similar to that of the Cheetah templating engine but it's written in Ruby instead of...

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Posted by wincent at 11:36 AM

Screencasting software

Since posting my first screencast yesterday I've received a couple of emails asking about the software used to make it. iShowU is used for capture. I already held a license for the standard version of Snapz Pro X, and normally...

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Posted by wincent at 8:17 AM

April 11, 2007

Non-contiguous selections in TextMate

I'm planning to start posting screencasts to show off features in my products. But this is totally new for me so, by way of practice, here's a really quick-and-dirty TextMate tip. In short: tapping the Option key converts any existing...

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Posted by wincent at 3:12 PM

April 5, 2007

It's official

And I want one. Four times as many cores as my current iMac, and each core nearly twice as fast; it wouldn't surprise me if the thing was eight times faster in all. Would be nice to get those...

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Posted by wincent at 4:50 PM

April 4, 2007

The first Synergy Advance nightly is up...

Still plenty to be fixed as noted in the announcement... but I think I have to do something about my build times: START: Wed Apr 04 06:10:41 +0200 2007 PROJECT: synergy_jaguar So Synergy gets skipped because there have been no...

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Posted by wincent at 6:39 AM

April 3, 2007

WordPress 2.1.3 but not for me

After a cracker broke into the WordPress server last month and replaced the official download with a trojan (an incident described by the WordPress public-relations team as a "systems issue") I decided to give WordPress the flick, forever (see "Removing...

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Posted by wincent at 12:32 PM