What a beautiful sight to behold. Why, you ask? Well naturally due to the prospect that the new iPhone will be added to the store today.
The Apple World Wide Developers Conference begins in about 10 minutes (12 CST). Hopefully Mr. Jobsy will have lots of cool new Apple devices to talk about, most importantly the 3G iPhone.
Head over to Engadget for live updates. I would take on this task but I have another job I must attend to. After all the news breaks be sure to come back and let us know what you thought of the keynote and if the 3G iPhone will have an impact on the way websites are designed for mobile devices.
Monday productivity is sure to drop for the next couple hours.
- Eric
- Out
Maybe you’ve heard that Apple is making some sort of announcement today. Rumor suggests (and I sincerely hope) the announcement will be about the iPod line.
Currently the Apple store is down, which makes me think new product is going up (and we will know what that product is very soon).
The thing I love about Apple is that more often than not when new product is announced, I can go to the Apple store and buy it same day. That means that after a long day of hard work at RD2, my run tonight might be extra gratifying as I listen to The New Pornographers, Deerhoof, and The Go! Team on the latest portable music device.
The Subversion development team recently released version 1.4 of the Subversion client and server, which includes some handy improvements.
- `svn diff` can now optionally ignore whitespace and differences between platform end of line styles when computing the difference between files.
- OS X Keychain (OS X’s password store) support.
- Significant working-copy performance improvements.
- File size improvements when working with binary files.
- A handful of new command line options.
- More than 40 bugfixes.
It’s important to note that the Subversion development team warns that the working copy storage format, i.e. the “.svn” folders, has changed for 1.4, so if you are doing something along the lines of reading a working copy stored on an external drive from two different computers, both will need to be updated to Subversion 1.4. This limitation does not extend to clients using a server-side repository.
Most of our development these days happens on Macs, some G4 and some Intel. Either way, Metissian, the source for OS X binary builds of Subversion, hasn’t released new builds of 1.4 yet. I built my own copy of 1.4 using Dan Benjamin’s building instructions for Subversion on OS X for a PowerBook G4, simply substituting downloading the 1.4 release instead of 1.3.1.
However, recently I’ve transitioned to a shiny new MacBook Pro. When I went to use the same instructions to build Subversion 1.4, the configure step complained that I was missing the Apache Portable Runtime, a dependency of Subversion’s. Starting with Subversion 1.4, the Subversion team is distributing the dependencies separately form the Subversion source code. Once you download both Subversion 1.4.0 and its dependencies and extract them both to the same folder, Dan Benjamin’s original instructions work seamlessly.
I’ve always admired the way Mac turns its consumers into “brand evangelists” (the textbook term for the most intense form of brand loyalty).
Until RD2, my Mac experience peaked with Oregon Trail at Pinkerton Elementary school. I have since warmed up to Macs some (I even installed iTunes to use with my Motorola SLVR L7 phone, and have yet to have anything detrimental happen as a result).
Thanks to Brandon, I am currently previewing life with Apple’s Mighty Mouse.
The conversation went something like: “I want you to get a full preview of the cool accessories before you decide.” (Evidently they’ve already converted Mike to Mac.)
The mouse is pretty neat (I think I like the sideways scroll best), but I don’t see myself switching over to Mac any time soon (much to the chagrin of a few of my co-workers).
On behalf of marketing aficionados everywhere, I appreciate the persistance.
Working on a Mac can be great for publishing Flash animations, since the Flash player looks the same on both the Windows and Mac platforms. But a recent jaunt back into the world of HTML made it obvious that even the best Mac-only design can fall apart when viewed on Internet Explorer.
Enter Parallels.
Using this software on an Intel Mac, I can test Mac browsers (Safari, Opera, Firefox) and Windows browsers (IE 5-7, Firefox, Netscape) all without shutting down OS X, like Apple’s Boot Camp requires. This is great for testing HTML, CSS, Javascript — any coding language that might change between platforms.