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Cocoa Memory Management: the 7 Step Program
Cocoa memory management is fairly straightforward, so I shouldn't have to post this. But I will, if only to prevent someone else from doing so. Only longer. And wronger.
BANANA CARAMEL PIE
BANANA CARAMEL PIE IS NOT THAT HARD IF YOU THINK IT IS HARD THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU BANANA CARAMEL PIE REQUIRES BOTH PATIENCE AND RICE IF YOU HAVE NEITHER GO TO HELL
Games People Play: A Book Review
Welcome to the K5 Book Club! Discussions on K5 have brought up this book. In an unrelated situation, real life people have recommended the same book to me. Mildly cultish following and also a nice short read. Dated but charming, and provides plenty of ammo for accusing your fellows of pathological behavior, which is probably the best reason to read psych books! Definitely up th...
To Save The Gulf, Send The Enterprise
The real Planet Earth has an ongoing situation that could use a ship of superheros like those in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek soap opera. 60+ days have passed since the Deepwater Horizon's explosion and sinking. BP company engineers have been working continuously to stop the oil, but all efforts to plug the gusher in the gulf have failed. Efforts to contain the oil are ongoing, but the best cas...
Salaryman's Bank Performance Report
Salaryman arrived to the car-park just as Boss's chauffeur was stamping on his cigarette. “Boss will be down in a second,” the chauffeur said. “You don't happen to have a laptop running OS/2, do you?” “No, I don't,” Salaryman said, tuning his cufflinks. “Darn,” the chauffeur said, staring at the doorway he expected Boss to walk through an...
Booting Up with Salaryman
Salaryman set his coffee mug on his desk. On a coaster, of course. Salaryman respected his banking firm too much to stain their solid oak desks with his fresh-ground Brazilian coffee. Smacking his lips, Salaryman hit the space bar on his black keyboard with his index finger and sat back. There was a quick electronic beep and some fans under his gargantuan desk whirled to life. The LCD lit up...
Why I Almost Gave OpenBSD $100,000--But Didn't
It is never a happy occasion to realize that a not-for-profit group, no matter how destitute or successful, is undeserving of charitable donations. And just last week I had such an unhappy realization. I wanted to donate a sizable sum of money to the OpenBSD Foundation for development of the OpeBSD operating system and other related projects. My uncle, an old Unix graybeard from the Seventie...
Murder the Chinese People!...with Red Dawn (2010)
Like many of my childhood friends, I was deeply moved by the 1984 B survival movie Red Dawn (Chinese title: 《赤色黎明》)--but that was during the peak of the Cold War when people still believed MAD was on the horizon...Patrick Swayze (RIP), C Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, and the then still lovely Lea Thompson played the most 'heroic' characters I'd ever see...
Why I Left OpenBSD
I was a long-time OpenBSD user since the 3.1 days, and cut my teeth on Unix development there. I was attracted by its focus on security and conscientious coding practices. I was happy through the early 4.x days, but the more I got involved in developing for OpenBSD the more I was dissuaded from doing so.Part of the issue was this focus on security. After I began to use OpenBSD at home and at wo...