Entries tagged with “programming” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

I made a note to myself many months ago to take a look at the Smultron programmer's text editor. Even though I'm quite happy using TextWrangler or Komodo Edit, I'm glad I took a look at this free and lightweight editor. Here's what I found...

One of the things I love about writing a book is it forces me to poke around into corners that I would otherwise just gloss over. My latest book on Cocoa Programming is no different -- I'm having a blast.

Hey, you got Ruby in my Cocoa. Mmmm. Two great taste treats.

O'Reilly's Linux Dev Center just published a fairly technical discussion of how the various Linux audio subsystems work. For those who just want to boot up and play, we've run several Linux audio articles, including: Resurrect Your Old PC for Music—with Linux Review: Fervent Software Studio-to-Go Inside a Luxury Synth: Creating the Linux-Powered Korg OASYS Inside Pandora: Web Radio That...

Device Certificate after the jump....

Here are the folder and device properties specifically for my Zune, plus its supported filetypes. I'm guessing the Sync partner is the one computer that my Zune hosts to. Biff is the meta-syntactic name I selected as my Zune ID. The Bytes/Free bytes are accurate. The Battery level seems low as it reads as fully charged on the device and...

This one is really long, so I've hidden most of it behind the jump. Here are the Playable File/Object Types and the object properties supported for each one....

Supported operations: 1001: Get device info 1002: Open session 1003: Close session 1004: Get storage IDs 1005: Get storage info 1006: Get number of objects 1007: Get object handles 1008: Get object info 1009: Get object 100b: Delete object 100c: Send object info 100d: Send object 100f: Format storage 1010: Reset device 1014: Get device property description 1015: Get device...

USB low-level info: bcdUSB: 512 bDeviceClass: 255 bDeviceSubClass: 0 bDeviceProtocol: 0 idVendor: 045e idProduct: 0710 IN endpoint maxpacket: 512 bytes OUT endpoint maxpacket: 512 bytes Device flags: 0x00000000 Device info: Manufacturer: Microsoft Model: Zune Device version: 01.01.00322.00-00309 Serial number: 14badbab - 0aee704e - 80bd1ff8 - 8ee00652 Vendor extension ID: 0x00000006 Vendor extension description: microsoft.com: 1.0; microsoft.com/WMDRMPD: 10.1; microsoft.com/WMPPD: 11.1;...

I think every programmer has their own internal Oscar and Felix. I've heard myself take both the Oscar and Felix sides of many design debates. But like most programmers, I tend to let one of them express himself a bit more.

A nice background article on compression from Intel.

A good C++ programming technique that has almost no published material available on the WWW relates to using the special pipeline instructions in modern CPUs for faster text processing. Here's example code using C++ intrinsic functions to give a fourfold speed increase for a UTF-8 to UTF-16 converter compared to the original C/C++ code.

Where the real work gets done?

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Simply naming a set of W3C /OASIS/ IETF recommendations will not produce interoperability.

W3C char guru new plop victory

Software development methodologies are usually couched in terms of improving software quality. But they often act by improving programmer quality.

My recent Java and Python coding projects gave me real life insights to the relative value of these two languages. Is it possible to code twice as fast in Python as it is in Java?

I've been looking for a product like ACT or Goldmine, but if you want multiple people using it collaboratively, you're suddenly an "enterprise" customer, which means thousands of dollars. Also, they just got a couple million from DFJ, who's betting on the open source aspect - which has never been applied to CRM. Way cool.

New implementations, Love-In let-down, Open GIS