I’ve had an average uptime over the last couple of months of approximately 48 hours on my MacBook Pro. This has been frustrating and very hard to diagnose, but I think I nailed it today.
Continue reading “Leopard GUI crashes, Part 1”
Category: Mac
Leopard Upgrade Report: Mo’ Features, Mo’ Problems
(Apologies to The Notorious B.I.G. for the title.)
I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” recently. In short, it’s not ready for mainstream use. There are a few nice improvements, but these are balanced by numerous problems that make me wish I had waited until, say, June 2008 or so. If you haven’t upgraded and aren’t sure that you need to, I suggest that you wait a few months, until some of the bugs have been worked out.
Continue reading “Leopard Upgrade Report: Mo’ Features, Mo’ Problems”
Journalists, Developers Puzzled by Android SDK’s License
The Android mobile phone software platform from Google has some journalists and developers confused due to its license terms. The terms are open source, but not as free as the GNU General Public License. That decision has people wondering what Google’s up to. I have a theory about why they did this.
Continue reading “Journalists, Developers Puzzled by Android SDK’s License”
Impressions of Ruby on Rails from an ex J2EE developer (me)
A friend who is working primarily in the J2EE technology world (as I was, until early 2006) asked me for a how’s-it-going with respect to Ruby and Rails.
The short version:
– Ruby is fun to program in, as you’ve probably heard
– Rails is over-hyped, but it’s still quite good (definitely not perfect)
– I like the productivity of Ruby on Rails but I wouldn’t call it a silver bullet by any means
– Ruby performance was bad and is getting less bad, and can even be good if you do what the experts say
– The real gem (har har) in the Ruby and Rails space is the community itself
Continue reading “Impressions of Ruby on Rails from an ex J2EE developer (me)”
GNU Screen and my screenrc
GNU Screen is a remote terminal multiplexer, described welll elsewhere.
I use it to eliminate the too-many-Terminal-windows problem on my laptop. I also use it to help me achieve some level of continuity on remote hosts, by leaving half-completed sysadmin tasks as-is until hours or days later even if I get interrupted or if the task is really long-running and I need to roam around with my laptop.
Today I decided to invest some time in making my command-line development environment launch with a single script. Here are the details.
Continue reading “GNU Screen and my screenrc”