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April 6th, 2008

Stressful blogging

The New York Times has an article about prominent bloggers being stressed out. Hey, just like a “real” job (not that theirs is not real of course). In their pay-per-click world, I don’t know if it will ever get less stressful. Just like any other business. I’m sure if they quit, some other blogger will fill the void.

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March 13th, 2008

VNC to OS X Leopard from Windows

realvnc.gifHere are the steps:

  1. Download RealVNC
  2. Launch it
  3. Select the “Options…” button
  4. Select the “Full Colour (all available colours)” radio button in the “Colour and Encoding” tab

Selecting any other colour level will make RealVNC close abruptly after connection.

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March 13th, 2008

Leaving Atimi (hello Windows!)

I have left Atimi Software Inc. after three years being there, for personal reasons. I loved developing for the Mac, and now is an exciting time especially with the iPhone and its SDK — but it is back to the Windows world for me. I still will develop Mac stuff as a hobby, for sure. An opportunity presented itself to get in on the ground level with a web startup that I couldn’t pass up, I will blog more about it when it is appropriate.

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February 21st, 2008

Linus Torvalds on Git, at Google

Linus Torvald’s talk at Google, about Git, a distributed version control system. I screen-captured his slides, and they are available for download or for view. I’ve been playing with git a bit in my personal projects. My workplace still uses Perforce though.

When on the road, I have the whole repo with me and can check-in my changes, revert, etc. When I get home, I can push my changes to my server and that can act as my “backup”. Although with Xcode 3.0 and its “snapshot” feature, I can sort of simulate this, but I would use that as a last resort though.

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February 19th, 2008

uif2iso on OS X

Keep getting an “invalid argument” error when using Luigi Auriemma’s uif2iso after compiling on Mac OS X? In a nutshell, you will have to use “fseeko” instead of “fseek”, and “ftello” instead of “ftell” in his uif2iso.c file, when compiling in OS X.

I have made the appropriate changes (uif2iso.c), as well as fixed the warnings (version 0.1.2). I have made a diff of my changes also (uif2iso.diff.txt).

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