http://www.blakeramsdell.com/techblog Blake Ramsdell's place to put words of utter brilliance about issues of a generally technical nature Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:23:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now, I don't mean to be bitchy, but think in your mind of a giant list of all of the things that you might want to run in Parallels on OS X. OK, got it? Now, in your top five, do you have "Ubuntu Linux"? You do? Then why the hell ... http://www.blakeramsdell.com/techblog/2007/05/12/ubuntu-on-parallels-not-so-feisty/ So recently I've been reading all of my RSS feeds using Google Reader. The thing I like the most is that I can click "Share" and it goes to my own special little feed comprised of articles that I pick. I don't have to write any commentary, I don't have ... http://www.blakeramsdell.com/techblog/2006/12/27/passwords-vs-obscure-directory-names/ Testing out the TextMate blogging bundle. TextMate rulez. http://www.blakeramsdell.com/techblog/2006/10/25/textmate-blogging-bundle/ Here's a challenge for you. Ready? In Java and C++ on OS X, output to the console the following string: I have €100 to my name. You'll be surprised how hard this is. I'll start with a control -- something that works correctly. I created a text file with TextMate encoded with UTF-8: blake-ramsdells-macbook-pro:~/Source/test/JavaUnicode blake$ ... http://www.blakeramsdell.com/techblog/2006/06/10/unicode-is-tricky-in-java-and-might-be-impossible-in-c/ So I found out that GeSHi is even smarter than I thought. Check out this Java snippet: JilterStatus connect(String hostname, InetAddress hostaddr, Properties properties); Note the links for the Java classes. Not perfect, but not bad. Automagic. http://www.blakeramsdell.com/techblog/2006/05/15/geshi-continues-to-amaze-me/ So a few weeks ago there was some giant event at SourceForge where no one could use developer CVS. For like four days. So congratulations -- SourceForge, you now have officially "one nine" uptime for 2006. I know it's free. But does that mean it has to suck? I'm sure everyone's ... http://www.blakeramsdell.com/techblog/2006/05/15/sourceforge-one-nine-uptime-and-loving-it/ I was messing around with Beta 3 Beta 4 of the Parallels VM environment for Intel OS X. Dayamn. I got Windows XP SP2 plus Cygwin plus Visual Studio 2005 on there without a hitch. And it's fast. CD, network and sound all works perfectly. I'm a fan. Can't wait until the ... http://www.blakeramsdell.com/techblog/2006/04/20/parallels-decidedly-doesnt-suck/ I found some cool links today. All stemming from the same link. David Weiss is involved with the Mac Lab at Microsoft. He provided a tour of the lab that's cool. An evil army of 150 Mac Minis are part of the population. I read some of his other posts, and found ... http://www.blakeramsdell.com/techblog/2006/04/20/miscellaneous-mac-links/ I ended up on some ADD fest and found Apples to Oranges and their bar graphing stuff. Sweeet looking. http://www.blakeramsdell.com/techblog/2006/04/17/good-looking-bar-graphs-in-css/ I figured I'd test a code snippet and see what happens. That's a PHP example. How about Objective C: - (void) drawRect:(NSRect)rect { NSLog(@"my drawrect"); [super drawRect: rect]; } Outstanding! One issue is that when you specify the "code" tag, you have to use double quotes, and you have to know the random identifier that GeSHi uses ... http://www.blakeramsdell.com/techblog/2006/04/10/testing-code-snippets/