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June 27, 2007
Small steps
$ irb -r wiki_text irb(main):001:0> WikiText::Parser.new.parse("foobar") => "<p>foobar</p>\n" A small step for man, a giant small step for mankind... Ah well, from here on the rest should be pretty easy. (How many times have I said that before?)...More Development articles
Posted by wincent at 2:09 PM
June 25, 2007
Comments on weblogs
As the question of comments on weblogs has come up I thought I'd post an explanation of why this weblog doesn't have comments. John Gruber, author of Daring Fireball, had some interesting things to say on the topic in the...More Opinion articles
Posted by wincent at 1:35 PM
June 24, 2007
WordPress follow-up
A few people have contacted me with comments about my article on WordPress, and among other things it ended up getting linked to on a series of sites (1, 2, 3) with successively higher traffic rankings, ultimately reaching the weblog...More Opinion articles
Posted by wincent at 3:30 PM
June 21, 2007
WordPress flaw
So a new WordPress release is out with the usual spin: Since 2.2 was released a month ago, the WordPress community has been improving fit-and-finish by identifying and fixing those little bugs that can be so annoying and by fine-tuning...More Net articles
Posted by wincent at 8:29 AM
June 14, 2007
Schwartz on ZFS, again
Jonathan Schwartz has just remarked: OpenSolaris has come a very long way since you last looked. It and its community are growing, as a result of more than ZFS (although we seem to be generating a lot of interest there,...More Apple articles
Posted by wincent at 1:08 PM
Apple Design Awards 2007
So the winners of the Apple Design Awards for 2007 have been announced. Leopard For me, the most remarkable thing about the awards this year is that there is a category for applications which run on an operating system that...More Apple articles
Posted by wincent at 10:30 AM
O'Reilly Pocket References
Bought some O'Reilly Pocket References yesterday. Actually, I only wanted one, but then I saw that they had a "Buy 2, get a 3rd book free" offer. I really only wanted a quick HTML reference, but seeing as the offer...More Miscellaneous articles
Posted by wincent at 8:39 AM
June 13, 2007
Wincent dot-co
By far the most common typo I make while trying to get to wincent.dev is "wincent.co". I'd love to have it as a domain name, not only because of the number of mistakes I make, but because I think it...More Net articles
Posted by wincent at 11:33 AM
June 12, 2007
Cleaning the Mighty Mouse
I've tried almost every trick in the book when it comes to cleaning the Mighty Mouse's non-functioning scroll ball. Ultimately though, no matter what you do, there will come a day in which the ball stops working completely no matter...More Apple articles
Posted by wincent at 5:17 PM
Wincent's dog: Leopard Reaction
Seeing as every man and his dog has or is going to opine on the WWDC keynote I don't think it's necessary for me to add anything here. My dog, however, feels differently, so I'm going to hand over to...More Mac OS X articles
Posted by wincent at 11:30 AM
Safari 3.0
Normally I don't install pre-release software on my production machine. I used to be a real dabbler, what I considered then to be a "Power User"; I had all the latest hacks and extensions, knew every trick and shortcut, and...More Apple articles
Posted by wincent at 11:02 AM
June 10, 2007
On the cost of cellphone (SMS) text messages
Here in Spain it costs about 15 eurocents to send a single SMS (cellphone text message). Cross the 160 character limit and you'll have to pay another 15 cents for each additional block of 160 characters. Sure, this sucks, and...More Opinion articles
Posted by wincent at 12:27 AM
June 5, 2007
New MacBook Pros
I love the specs on Apple's new MacBook Pros (nice summary here). Now, I'm not personally in the market for a portable right now but I still think it's awesome the rate at which Apple's improving their hardware nowadays. Not...More Apple articles
Posted by wincent at 3:08 PM
June 1, 2007
iTunes Plus
So iTunes Plus has just become available here in Spain. I'm not a big spender on the iTunes store — I've only bought about 30 tracks since the store opened here (mostly because the catalogue doesn't have the kind of...More Apple articles
Posted by wincent at 4:50 PM
