To satisfy my own curiousity, I reinstalled OS X Leopard today.
It took about 1.5h to install the OS and 30m to install the base apps like iDVD and so on.
This was on a 2.0GHz Core2Duo Mini.
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Reinstalling Leopard
Sunday, June 21, 2009
We Need More Architectural Engineers in IT
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Even though I don’t think that software development is engineering; these two passages spoke to me in terms of project roles that should be distinguised on larger projects: architect and architectural engineer (they apply to structural engineering, but I am going to stretch them here) :
Architecture is a communicative art that situates human activity within [...]
Using DrScheme to Edit Code for Any Distribution
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
I would like, or for someone else to, write a plugin for DrScheme that would allow it to easily call out to execute code on any Scheme distribution.
The reason is that DrScheme is a very nice cross-platform editor with great features that you can use on R5RS and R6RS Scheme source code.
The plugin would [...]
A Simple PHP Class to Back Up MySQL
Saturday, June 6, 2009
My web host is cutting over from allowing shell scripts to requiring scripting languages instead. I had wanted to write a script in PHP, so I figured this is a good opportunity.
Here is a simple PHP class to back up a MySQL database and blanket-delete old backups from a directory.
Setting up QBZR on OS X
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Bzr is nice to use. It is tailored for the masses (of which I am a member). It has the usual UNIX support, but it has first-class Windows support, too. It has a nice UI if you want it. The community is great, too.
A few days ago I installed it on OS X and [...]
Voice-driven and hand held apps: a match made in heaven?
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Here is an article about writing voice-driven applications.
It might be interesting to “think differently” about problem solving by taking into consideration that you might combine the power of your handheld with the ease of use (potentially at least) of voice driven applications on a server. They might compliment each other well.
Mini-malistic Mac development environment
Saturday, June 6, 2009
It looks like the “non-pro” hardware is clearly the best place for me to start; the Mac Mini and Macbook fall into this camp.
My original thought was that the Macbook would be a perfect fit since I could hook it up to an external monitor at home and take it along with me when I [...]
Evaluating the ADC Select Membership
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Apple offers 3 levels of memberships: online, select, and premier (0USD, 500USD, and 3500USD respectively). They differ of course on features. For the time being, the select looks the most reasonably priced so I wanted to learn more about how it might make sense.
From what I read, the biggest perks are the 2 support tickets [...]
Scheme projects I would like to work on
Friday, May 15, 2009
Here are some fun and/or interesting Scheme projects that I would like to work on (eventually):
Comprehensive R6RS SRFI Unit Tests
A mega-repository for all of the R6RS libraries out there
A Ruby-subset interpreter
An expression-evaluation plugin for DrScheme
A Revised XO Setup
Sunday, May 3, 2009
OLPC XO Sugar release 8.2.0 (r767) left me with a useless machine so I decided to go back to a more reliable operating system version and capture the full setup here for record.