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Monthly Archives: April 2008

No NSCoder Night for me tonight!

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

I’d like to make it to NSCoder Night tonight, but I won’t be able to as I’ll be looking at a new place. Wish me luck, and have fun everybody!

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Build LLVM and clang!

Saturday, April 26, 2008

I’ve talked about the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure in the past, but what I haven’t talked about yet is just how easy and quickly you can build it on your own Mac running Leopard! This is a great way to get into hacking on compiler lexical analyzers and parsers, code generators, optimizers, and so on. What’s […]

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Copyright canonical form

Monday, April 21, 2008

One thing that’s nagged at me lately has been the series of applications I’ve seen lately with copyright statements that appear to be from the Bizarro universe. I don’t mean that they have weird license restrictions; rather, they have a copyright statement in their standard About panel that’s formatted strangely. It’s a minor pet peeve […]

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CocoaHeads Silicon Valley at Apple on Thursday, Apple 17, 2008

Thursday, April 17, 2008

The next CocoaHeads Silicon Valley meeting will be on Thursday, April 17, 2008 — that’s tonight! — at 7:30 in the De Anza 3 auditorium at Apple. That’s just inside the south side of De Anza 3, right across Mariani Avenue from Apple’s Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino. See the web site for directions. This […]

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Down the Rabbit Hole: Four Years On

Monday, April 14, 2008

Today was my [four year anniversary][1] working on [developer tools][2] at [Apple][3]. No regrets about taking the red pill here! [1]: http://chanson.livejournal.com/94629.html [2]: http://www.apple.com/macosx/developertools/xcode.html [3]: http://www.apple.com/

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NeXTstation Color: Free to good (local) home

Sunday, April 13, 2008

I have a complete 25MHz NeXTstation Color that I want to get rid of to a good home — in other words, you should want to use in some capacity as a NeXT workstation, not make its case into art or something. This isn’t some crappy PC of which there are millions with tiny variations […]

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