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Generational Garbage

By shanec 316 days ago from http://shanecrawford.org

Exploitation, barriers, and promotion. Continuing a series in garbage collection in Mac OS X Leopard this article dives into the details of Cocoas generational garbage collection. One of the strategies used by modern garbage collectors (GC) to collect memory is the usage of generations. There are a couple of key observations about objects tha

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Tags: mac software development leopard programming


Patterns for garbage collection

By shanec 330 days ago from http://shanecrawford.org

In software development patterns and anti-patterns outline best practice solutions to idioms which occur over and over again. New to Mac OS X Leopard is a memory management style known as Garbage Collection. In this post we take a look at a few development best practices as well as a few pitfalls to avoid with this new Leopard development fea

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Tags: mac osx development objective-c programming software


Mac software that you wish you had but were afraid to ask

By shanec 337 days ago from http://shanecrawford.org

Have you ever had that nagging feeling that you needed to do something but couldn't? What about actually spending a load of time getting something done only to loose it all? Among others these are signs that you need better software. Developing that software is often a formidable task and requires more time than the benefit that you alone wo

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Tags: mac osx software development applications features


Little known 'back door' in Mac OS X!

By shanec 338 days ago from http://shanecrawford.org

Revealed: Little known 'back door' in Mac OS X! rnAfter purchasing a Netgear WGPS606 wireless laser printer I soon realized that I was stuck with not being able to use it from my Macs... major problem. However, after some hunting and research I discovered the pre-installed CUPS web interface already present on my Mac OS X machines. A few

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Collecting Leopard’s Garbage

By shanec 343 days ago from http://shanecrawford.org

Memory management is a delicate yet required skill of many who program. Those who program in C know the fine detail of managing each and every byte while those who have broadened out to Objective-C have enjoyed a slightly more relaxed thought process. Java developers on the other hand have lived in a virtual la la land of near memory manageme

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Tags: mac osx development objective-c programming software


Leopard Spaces

By shanec 376 days ago from http://shanecrawford.org

A review, with a few hidden tricks, of the new Leopard feature called Spaces. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard provides a host of new features and tweaks to the Apple OS. One of the newest additions is Spaces, a modern virtual desktop manager. For a developer

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UPS Urgent Delivery! Yea, right….

By shanec 384 days ago from http://shanecrawford.org

Caught in the act? A UPS horror story. The past few days I have been embattled with UPS over an Urgent next day delivery from a financial institution with whom I have had an account. Occasionally, I use FedEx OR UPS in order to conduct business and

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