Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers

Going to WWDC this year.  I’m not going to make any technical predictions, because last year I suggested that the Intel rumours were just a rehashing of regularly-repeated hype, and that there’d be a new edition of Hillegas to cover Core Data.  So, this year I’ll restrict myself to predicting that Steve Jobs will be there, and will say “Boom” at least once.

Fellow attendees: don’t know what my movements will be, except that I’ll be at the Thirsty Bear on Monday with some WebObjects people, but I’d like to meet as many of you as possible so please add onetrueleeg at mac dot com to your iChat list!  :-)

Having been using fink for at least three years, I’m surprised it’s taken me this long to discover the ‘applesystemfonts’ package, which lets you use the, um, Apple system fonts under X.  But I’m glad I did, as it’s no longer “Times New Roman or nowt” in Scribus :-)

WebObjects generated components use a style like this:

    public Main(WOContext context) {
        super(context);
    }

But if you add a key using WOBuilder, then its accessors use the following style:

    public String username()
    {
        return username;
    }

Mmm…you can almost smell the consistency.

“‘ad you not nailed it to iTunes, it’d be pushin’ up the daisies!”

Just got a brace of MacBooks, and with the .pvs linked in an earlier post OPENSTEP/Mach works on both with Parallels.

Yes, I did write a swedish chef to C translator.  What of it?  My cousin was bitten by a møose once.

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I just noticed that I’ve been using Xcode’s codesense all day, despite the fact that I’m writing Python (albeit with PyObjC goodness).  I wasn’t aware that that would work, but then I wasn’t really aware that it was working, if you see what I mean.

I reckon I might be some kind of operating-system collecting nerd.  Having played with various systems on the Intel Mac at work through Parallels (NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, Rhapsody, Debian GNU/Linux, Solaris 10, DesktopBSD) got me wondering why I don’t do the same at home.  So having fired up Qemu on the iBook, I’m now in the process of setting up the HURD.  There’s a bit of a messy GRUB invocation involved before it will boot, but then everything works pretty well.

I’m just left wondering exactly what it is I’m going to do with my new-found HURD installation :-)

Quite a few people seem to have issues with Parallels/OPENSTEP/Mach, so let’s at least remove Parallels configuration from the list of unknowns.  Try this PVS file, see if that helps.  BTW, anyone having problems, what host system are you using?