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Did you know that these two commands are equivalent in bash?
$ cp filename filename-old
$ cp filename{,-old}

Ralph Johnson:
The thing that is going to make Erlang big is that it is the only mature language with a rock-solid implementation and good set of libraries that lets you write software that can scale seamlessly from a single processor system to a hundred processor system. In a few years, all our desktop systems […]

Amen:
Really, interviews are little more than a thinly disguised popularity contest. Who would the interviewers most want to spend time with? If a workplace can actually admit that’s their hiring process and it’s done right, this is actually a pretty good way to recruit people. After all, why hire people you can’t […]

What an engineer means when he says, ‘non-trivial‘:

Non-trivial contains dangerous unknowns. Some part of it is not yet understood, or lies outside the range of things the programmer has done before, or can quickly imagine a workable solution to. The more experienced the programmer who tells you a problem is non-trivial, the more concerned you […]

Rands book is out!

The new Webkit Inspector is super-duper awesome!

Is it only me, or does this seem weird:
“In an effort to spur adoption of Solaris, Sun Microsystems has begun a project code-named Indiana to try to give its operating system some of the trappings of Linux.
The project is one of the items on the to-do list of Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian version […]

CSI Munich! The guys at Sun have outdone themselves with this cheeky, fun and nerdy video.

The MacTech 25

Cliff Click proposes a hash table implementation with no locks at all. Concurrent access is done with compare-and-swap and threads can even die mid-update without damaging the table. He demonstrates scaling up to 768 CPUs even with high mutation rates. Nifty stuff….

Brilliant

Talblog has a great tip about moving the Copy Bundle Resources step of an XCode build to come after your binaries are linked. Since copying almost never fails but linking often can, this change saves time where it counts. Great idea!

Daniel Jalkut observes that while seemingly loose about types in that it will attempt to execute any method you throw at it, an Objective-C object at least has the decency to insist you use a SELector in exchange for this type-sluttiness, Key Value Coding will take any old string no matter how unlikely it is […]

I love James Dunance Davidson’s conference photos, like this one from RailsConf 2007:

There is also a cool series of Ze Frank photos.

If you’ve been reading Mac blogs for long then you’ve no doubt had the pleasure of experiencing the zany cleverness and razor wit of DrunkenBlog. But last year DrunkenBatman went silent. Now, today, he speaks:
However, if you’re still on the fence and looking for a reason to go this year, I can […]

As seen here

Mac developers are getting married left and right.
Daniel Jalkut is getting married this weekend (no updates to MarsEdit until then I hope) and Matt Gemmell just proposed (she said yes!)
Congratulations guys.

Spolsky:
I had a chance to visit 7 World Trade Center today, the newest office high rise to open in New York.
Instead of having up and down buttons outside the elevators, there’s a numeric keypad, where you key in the floor number you’re going to. Then an LED display tells you which elevator to wait for. […]

Brent Simmons:
Remember, every time you touch the mouse, God kills a kitten. Use the keyboard if you have a heart.

Vacuous Virtuous has created a Cocoa Digg library using the newly available Digg API. Cool.

If you’re using XCode don’t forget to disable ZeroLink
Unless you have a large project, the problems ZeroLink causes surpass the time saved by not linking. While ZeroLink has its place, most developers are better off not using it, and Apple would be better off turning off ZeroLink initially.

From the series by Masna

From the series by Masna

On using the best developer tool since Interface Builder along with Service Scrubber to Make Services Work For You.
Postscript: Or why you can never just read one thing on the Internet.

It’s cool that installing a Mac application is simply a matter of dragging the app icon to your Applications folder or double clicking the installer in the case of a Preferences pane. But after downloading a DMG it isn’t always super clear what exactly you are supposed to do. Hazel from Noodlesoft handles […]

The Mac App Checklist

Uncov on why Web 2.0 sucks:
It has been said (by me) that what happens in Web 2.0 stays in Web 2.0. In AJAX development, programmers can’t be held responsible for, say, the amount of memory their giant JavaScript application uses, because hey, that’s the browser’s problem. We don’t care about the browser taking 100% of […]

There is a new round of discussion on the old comment your code or not chestnut:
Design for readability.
Even if you don’t intend anybody else to read your code, there’s still a very good chance that somebody will have to stare at your code and figure out what it does: That person is probably going to […]

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