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John Siracusa on OS X Snow Leopard: Got all that? A nearly two-year development cycle, but no new features. Major new frameworks for developers, but few new bugs. Significant changes to the core OS, but more reliability. And a franchise rejuvenation with few user-visible changes. It’s enough to turn a leopard white.

I have recently started playing with Objective-C and Cocoa. One of the first things that I did was to tell Xcode to use MacVim as my default code editor. In the past, I have mostly been using Vim colour schemes with dark backgrounds. However, I now wanted a colour scheme with a light background. Something [...]

What you do when you’ve been slack and haven’t posted for months? You think of something interesting to say. What do you do when your mind goes blank? You post a screen shot or a dot file. As a bonus, here’s both: Screen shot of my xterm session in OS X: And here’s my .screenrc [...]

I have now had my PowerBook for a little more than two weeks. Like I said in my previous post, I am very impressed with the design and build quality of the machine. First, the obligatory photos. I bought an STM glove and a booq Mamba XS laptop bag to carry the notebook around. If [...]

I bought a PowerBook G4 12” on Monday. I’ve been meaning to buy a mac for a while. My old PC is a PIII (600MHz, overclocked to 800MHz) that dates back to the year 2000. It’s served me well, but I suspect that it will now turn into a test development server or a box [...]