Now that Apple has released the complete set of WWDC 2011 videos to registered developers, those of us who couldn’t make it to the conference have the opportunity to hear about all the new, shiny stuff coming in Mac OS X 10.7 and iOS 5. Read More
Instead of focusing on a single band or record in a Music to Code By post, I’m going to try something a bit different this time. For me, there are two kinds of coding. The first is deep thought: architecture design, solving a difficult algorithmic problem or hunting down a tricky bug. Read More
June 8, 2011 is World IPv6 Day. Many large organizations around the world will offer their primary website’s content on the IPv6 Internet in addition to IPv4. If all goes well, the hope is that this will be a permanent change and these sites will operate dual-stack.
You can test your ability to reach the IPv6 Internet by visiting test-ipv6.com.
If you operate a website, you can make your content available directly to IPv6 users, too. Obtain a native IPv6 address block from your Internet provider, configure your servers with an IPv6 address, then add AAAA entries to your DNS for the new address.
CocoaConf is a new developer-focused conference for Mac OS X and iOS being held August 12-13 in Columbus, OH. I am presenting a session on networking with Cocoa. It will cover the various APIs available to Mac OS X and iOS developers from Apple and third-parties, as well as touch on issues unique to using the network on a mobile platform.
Early registration opened today and you can get a conference pass for 50% off.
Pow is a new zero-configuration server for Rack web applications by 37Signals. It makes development, especially on multiple applications, painless: it adds a new .dev domain, with individual apps symlinked from ~/.pow. Pow manages application instances automatically and integrates seamlessly with RVM. Read More
Brent Simmons has lately been advocating for “baked” blogs. In a nutshell, a baked blog is one that produces static HTML files. These days, most popular blogging software stores content in a database and runs a bunch of code for every page request: pull the post out of the database, generate the page based on a template, and finally send the finished page to the browser. Under a normal, light traffic load, this works fine, but as soon as a post is linked by a very popular site, it buckles under the load. Best case, visitors get an error page. Worst case, your server crashes. Read More
Daring Fireball recently linked to a piece at The Economist discussing Amazon’s blocking of Lendle. Read More
Anna Calvi is the first new act to really catch my attention in 2011. Her self-titled debut shows a lot of promise, bookended by the lead-in “Rider to the Sea” and the closing “Love Won’t Be Leaving”. In between are eight more tracks: dark and moody, but mostly holding back. I get the feeling she’s going to go on a tear at any moment, but it never quite happens, at least not in studio.
Anna Calvi (iTunes, Amazon MP3
Search Bleach, Light Year’s extension for Safari, Chrome and Firefox that hid Google search results from a list of domains, was made obsolete today. Google announced that hiding domains is now built-in: Read More
If you’re (re)building a development workstation on Mac OS X, you may have decided to use the latest MySQL 5.5 packages from mysql.com. Unfortunately, that means you probably have seen (or will soon see) two problems. Read More