Musings from the Peanut Gallery

I finished up imSimReal with IMSRGravity and IMSRPointObject this afternoon. I tagged it 0.1RC1 as the first release candidate for 0.1. I believe that this is complete for what I need to start work on GravityGames, my first iPhone app. It’s possible that more will be required, so I’ve left it as an RC1 and [...]

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Found I was releasing objects that didn’t need releasing.

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Development, imSimReal, iPhone

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I’ve pretty much finished IMSRGravity class for now. It really does nothing but wrap an NSDictionary with some meaningful names. The NSDictionary is initialized from a property list, Gravity.plist. The plist contains the names of celestial bodies (Earth, Moon, Jupiter) as keys, and their gravity accelerations at the surface as the values. Gravity is in [...]

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Business Week has a blog post with comments about why people are switching to the Mac.

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According to Crave, via AnchorDesk, there’s a new exploit that allows malicious code consume all the memory available to Safari. This will cause your iPhone or iPod Touch to freeze, or crash Safari on your Macintosh or Windows computer.
Apparently the only work-around at this point is to disable Javascript in Safari. Hopefully Apple will fix [...]

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I ran into a problem Monday night where I couldn’t log into my Mac. I got a “SystemUIServer unexpectedly quit” message. After messing around on Tuesday evening, including deleting my ~/Libraries/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file (as recommended on a troubleshooting website) I gave up and reinstalled the OS. Fortunately it went well with no lost data.
My best guess [...]

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I’ve been playing around with Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and using Google Web Toolkit Solutions by David Geary as a source. Using Netbeans 6 on the Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), on dual proc @.0 Ghz PPC PowerMac Pro, and using Glassfish V2 as the server, I get an RPC failure when I attempt to [...]

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See Steve Jobs at Macworld deliver his keynote. He had four major announcements:

Major upgrades for the iphone and ipod touch.
Time Capsule–a backup appliance that works with time machine.
Video rental through iTunes and major upgrades to Apple TV making it work seamlessly with iTunes right from your widescreen TV (no computer required).
Macbook Air–The world’s thinnest laptop. [...]

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I want one!
Apple announced two new machines. The one I’m interested in is the new Mac Pro with two quad-core Intel Xeon processors. That’s 8 processors in a desktop, folks.

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Macintosh, OS X

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Bought the above hard drive to use as a backup drive after our little episode upgrading to OS X 10.5 Leopard. It’s a nice little drive, near as I can tell so far. And the Firewire 800 is a fast interface. Of course, the two laptops interface to it over the network at 52 MBytes/sec [...]

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