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Name: Chris Parker
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hrmm. Objective-C is the language for iPhone dev. Sure, you can unlock your phone and do all sorts of interesting things, but if you want to release to the app store you must program in Objective-C on OSX.

I am writing an iPhone app, but I don't have an Intel machine. My good friend Neimah got me a really nice Power machine (one of the really cool Power Macs that I wanted back when they were the only game around). You can develop iPhone 3.0 apps on Power:

http://www.poserio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15:installing-iphone-30-sdk-on-g4-powerpc&catid=5:hacks&Itemid=7&tmpl=component

Also, don't even think about making your code a bit more simple by including a scripting environment. I had a really nice app with a little scripting language to make things easier to extend. Apple hates that. The control the iPhone, and they don't want you to do any nice little scripting.

Nope. Nope.!

Learning Latin again. I had to take Latin in school and I hated it. Let's say that you took Latin for a few years because your school thought that it would help you and years and years later you want to pick it up again because you are nutty guy like me. Where would you go?

I would go to:

http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Latin-Homeschoolers-Self-Taught/dp/0979505100/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251777853&sr=8-13

because it has taught me to appreciate Latin. If my Latin teacher had just handed me this book and left my alone I would be speaking nothing but Latin. That isn't true. Latin isn't spoken much any more, and it isn't a very nice language compared to English and French, but it is a hell of a lot nicer than a lot of languages that are still used even today. Latin is a little over-designed. It is the statically-typed language of romance languages. Learning Latin again has made me appreciate English a whole lot more, and has justified my move from C and C++ to languages like Ruby and Python.

8 Jun 2007 (updated 8 Jun 2007 at 22:21 UTC) »
Getting your little bitty Common Lisp Project working quickly

So, you have a Common Lisp program that is just one file and you want to load it without mucking too much with asdf? And you also want to include a few of your asdf-installed packages? Man, you are asking for a lot! Okay, well, here is what I do:


(eval-when (:load-toplevel :execute :compile-toplevel)
  (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :cl-who)
  (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :hunchentoot))


(defpackage :my-project-package (:use :common-lisp :cl-who :hunchentoot))

(in-package :my-project-package)

(format t "hello, world")

Load, compile, etc. In SLIME (I assume you are using SLIME) type in:
CL-USER> (in-package :my-project-package)

This works for me with small CL programs.

25 Oct 2004 (updated 25 Oct 2004 at 20:30 UTC) »
Voting In Texas

Okay - I need to post this information somewhere so that if someone is voting in Texas and is unsure where to find info he/she will get this in google.

Call this number to check voter registration: (713) 368-VOTE

Check this address to find out where to vote (this is for Harris County in Houston):

http://scotthochberg.com/ziplist.html

Thanks. Hope this helps someone in the future.

Jabberd 2

I have written two patches to Jabberd 2. One for imap auth and the other for sqlite support. Sqlite support is currently kind-of borked but as soon as I finish a big project I promise to finish it up. Promise.

Python

I have been reading the threads on Python/Mono/Java. I have been learning Python and it is refreshing. Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems like the one language that actually considers itself a tool and not the one-and-only-true-language. In the book that I have been learning from it shows how to write extensions in C - and it seems simple and natural.

Plus, the idea of every file being a module is pretty darn beautful. Still trying to get my head around the syntax, though. Years of programming in c-like languages has really retarded my ability to grow.

Ltunes, Lphoto

I downloaded and ran Linspire's Ltunes and Lphoto on my Gentoo box. They do not really live up to the hype. The interfaces of Ltunes looks like Rhythmbox/Juke and the interface of Lphoto looks like just about any photo management application out there. I am not sure why they are spending the time developing these two products when the alternatives are more mature.

RHAS 3

I finally got RHAS 3 in for my Itanium 2 box. HP might not be high on my list, but Red Hat rocks. I love up2date and the whole rhn.redhat.com site. Not sure if it is the Itanium 2 or RHAS but the box is really, really fast. Have not had time to really do benchmarks, but we are going to get in a few running HP-UX (uhh) so I will have a better idea in a few weeks.

Hewlett Packard Itanium 2 and Red Hat Advanced Server 3

Okay, I am getting frustrated. Red Hat Advanced Server 3 was supposed to be released for HP Itanium 2 last Friday and I just found out it is now (maybe) going to be released this Friday (maybe). I keep getting different answers and I am fed up. I have a server sitting in the back collecting dust and I am stuck with it.

I should have gotten a Sun Opteron.

This was just a test system to see how the Itanium 2 servers are, and after a few months of dicking around I have no clue how well the Itanium 2 works. We are not going to be ordering any more, though, due to the crappy quality of HP customer service. I wish that I could just get a clear answer. I would use Advanced Server 2.1, but I am being told that 3 is coming out "real soon".

Plus, the box was supposed to come with raid installed, and it came in another box. The card hardly fit in the server.

My advice to anyone looking at the Itanium 2 - unless you have a direct phone to Carly, look elsewhere.

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