September 2008
26 posts
“Messages are sent to these ports to initiate operations on the objects by the...”
– Convoluted sentence of the day. OS Concepts 6th ed., Appendix B
“Which brings us to the two TV spots Microsoft debuted this month, featuring...”
– There’s Nothing There, Daring Fireball
“So let me see if I got this correct;
The two of them got rich by stealing...”
– From commenter johnnyway, Second Gates-Seinfeld ad shows ad campaign has potential, Ars Technica.
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“After a while, everybody wanted to be a programmer. Since programming is...”
– A Web OS? Are You Dense?, Ted Dziuba
“So here is what Giuliani and Palin didn’t know: Obama was working for a...”
– What a Community Organizer Does, via @timoreilly (via @gruber, who has been a man on a goddamn mission when it comes to … well, slamming Palin, really).
The Glory and Hell that is Cocoa Bindings
Cocoa Bindings [are] notoriously hard to learn … I think that some of Apple’s problems came from the wrong tool to teach about bindings. Perhaps you’ve heard of the ‘Golden Hammer’ anti-pattern. Apple’s is the graphical interface. Apple told everyone to use Interface Builder to configure their controller objects, and the only way to do that was by clicking from screen to screen in Interface...
