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Author Archives: Graham Lee
Going indie!
This is sort of a message from the past. I wrote it yesterday, but had people I needed to talk to before I could hit the big old publish button. (Including this bit, so I really wrote it “today”, but … Continue reading
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Reverse-engineering stringed instruments
Despite being able to play some instruments, I probably couldn’t do a good job of making any of them. I don’t have the patience required to boil a horse for long enough to stick a fiddle together, for instance. Luthiers … Continue reading
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Beer improves perception of security
…at least, it provides for a nice analogy to use when discussing basic security concepts. I don’t think people necessarily choose better passwords after a skinful, nor do they usually make improved choices of what information to share on social … Continue reading
WWDC wind-down
As everyone is getting on their respective planes and flying back to their respective homelands, it’s time to look back on what happened and what the conference means. The event itself was great fun, as ever. Meeting loads of new … Continue reading
Posted in carbon, cocoa, conference, darwin, nextstep, WWDC
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Unit testing Cocoa projects in Xcode
Unlike Bill, whose reference to unit testing in Xcode 3.0 is linked at the title, when I started writing unit tests for my Cocoa projects I had no experience of testing in any other environment (well, OK, I’d used OCUnit … Continue reading
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Follow-up-and-slightly-over on safety/security
The one thing which makes this a less-than-standard follow-up is that the original was not posted here, but over on paranym Graham Cluley’s blog. I originally wrote about the (fictitious) difference between safety and security. For those who didn’t clickety … Continue reading
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chord graphics
Ha, crossover humour! It’s like Core Graphics, which is a Mac thing, only it’s chord, because I’m talking about music, but I’m a Mac guy…oh, never mind. When I’m trying to think of chords in music I always end up … Continue reading
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Prepping for WWDC
With the obvious first question being which parties do I go to? See you there?
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The rokeg blood pie^W^W^Wplot thickens
So, having already discussed Klingon Anti-Virus, the under-research Klingon threat detection tool made available by Sophos, it seems that more information has been made available. From no less, or indeed more, of a source than the blog of my Clu-ful … Continue reading
Posted in enterprise, klingon, security, star trek
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Detect the gagh lurking in your system!
Following up on my previous ability to get to the top of a Google search for a Klingon word (that one was chuvmey, as in my post Model, View, chuvmey) here is yet another attempt. At what? Why, at skewing … Continue reading
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