Archive for July, 2008

Adapter Agglutination

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Here’s an idea I came up with after having some frustration with hooking a 30-year-old Atari 2600 up to my five-year-old television. It’s for a website that sells adapters.

The frontend of this website would be an interface through which the user describes the connectors. The website would assist the user through the process with a [...]

Adium Contributions

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Over the last few weeks I’ve been contributing more to Adium:

Rewrote the README file for the dependency build scripts to document how to check out the source of libpurple and msn-pecan. [24178] Tracked down issues with compiling Adium with gcc-4.2; turns out it’s Apple’s fault. #10308 Wikified the output of the Clang Static Analyzer so developers can [...]

Digg Recommends Mococoa from the Upper Slopes of Mount Nicaragua

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Social networking site Digg has a beta going for their Recommendation Engine, which suggests links that users with similar interests have dugg:

Every time you Digg a story, the Engine matches you with other Diggers who Dugg the same story, and keeps track of all your Diggs in common with them. When it’s [...]

Catch-22: NDA vs. GPL

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

In August 2006, Apple sent WWDC attendees home with prerelease copies of Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. As with all major updates, the initial seeds of Leopard broke a lot of programs, in some cases requiring hefty code changes to fix. Attendees received prereleases of the operating system in order to get their programs working [...]