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Technical and democratic processes
A democratic process such as the OMG's is uniquely ill-suited for creating good software.Michi Henning .. in a very interesting view about why CORBA failed. And you cannot blame Michi Henning for not...
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Migrating S3-Objc to Google Code Hosting (sort of)
I created a project on Google Code Hosting to eventually migrate all of my OS X / S3 code there. Well, that was the excuse. What I really wanted was to test their code hosting service. The...
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Ruby on Rails and Leopard (Server)
Just saw that on OS X Leopard Server Sneak Peek: Internet and Web Leopard Server also features administration for either Apache 2.2 or 1.3, MySQL 5 with Apache/MySQL/PHP integration, JBoss 4, and...
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S3 Browser 0.3
I released today v0.3 of S3 Browser (binary and source). It has some minor usability fixes (added drag-n-drop support in the objects view, double-click actions, and other small fixes). But the most...
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Quote of the day
We used to write algorithms. Now we call APIs. [..] Times have changed. Welcome to a world where the programmer who knows how to tap into other people's brains and experience using the Internet has a...
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Playing with Amazon EC2
Another announce in the Amazon "WebServices" portfolio: Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 for short) is a highly adaptable hosting environment. I signed up for the beta, here is some notes from my (short)...
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Stats galore
O'Reilly Labs collected statistics from 672 of their books, and put everything accessible online. Lot of interesting ways of exploring the data: from book structure to example distribution. My own...
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Useless screenshot
Somebody asked for an EC2 "screenshot".sleepless:~ olg$ ssh -i id_rsa-gsg-keypair root@xxx.compute.amazonaws.com __| __|_ ) _| ( / ___|\___|___| Welcome to an EC2 Public Image :-)...
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Native Unicode support in programming languages
It's much needed. Here is my humble proposal (image version here): ❖include ❝list.h❞ ❖include ❰iostream❱ bool List♒printout() ◤ Item♂ curr; curr = next; ☁ ◤ ♻(curr) cout ⇇ ❝ node ❞ ⇇ curr➟val ⇇ ❛⏎❜; ◣...
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EC2 SOAP + XMLSig + WSSE + X509 = Frustration
I'm exploring the EC2 SOAP API. Why ? I never really developed a client for a SOAP API, and this was a good occasion, and the interesting constraint is that it's not just a SOAP API, but a SOAP API...
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S3 Browser hits 1.0
This version adds support for multiple files upload. When uploading a directory, the contained files will be mapped to a slash-delimited path as key to conserve the hierarchy. Another important change...
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BigTable, or Infrastructure Paradise, Part 1
The BigTable paper is a very interesting document, that should be read in parallel with an old post by Adam Bosworth. What is fascinating with BigTable is of course what it does: scaling to very large...
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KVO, KVC
Isn't that strange that - (id)valueForKeyPath:(NSString *)keyPathdoes not play well with - (id)valueForUndefinedKey:(NSString *)key in Foundation ? Todo: extract the code, post it here so I can be...
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Google Code SVN History Import ?
So apparently, it is now possible to import an existing repository into Google Code Hosting while preserving history, through svnsync. Which is not yet reflected in the FAQ (in the case you'd be able...
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The funny thing about Google Codesearch...
They're indexing code within zip files and tarballs (update: they're also indexing online source control repositories):
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The Debian / Mozilla Firefox controversy
The caption will only make sense for french readers (basically "Mozilla & Debian mourning over the Body of The Open-Source Cooperation Spirit - An allegory"). The acrimony in the debate is getting...
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Obj-C Runtime fun Redux
More than a year ago, I wrote a quick note about how the Objective-C runtime allows you to access class structure, for instance to dump a graphical view of in-memory instance graph, similar to what LVJ...
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S3 Browser: source repository and auto-updates
I made a few changes to S3 Browser this week. Not exactly new features or impressive bug fixes, but changes in how I'm coding and releasing S3 Browser. First I moved my source repository to the objc-s3...
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Famous last words
"We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone, PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in." Palm CEO Ed Colligan, last...
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S3 Browser 1.0.6
... with fixes for a few crashers. Available through software update in you're running 1.0.2 or later or on the web page.
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