By Renegade on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:07 AM

Wow. Some people really just don't get it. Some Aussie politicians are pushing full-bore ahead to "filter" content on the Internet. Here's one more story about it.

"This is a modest measure, which reflects long-held community standards about the type of content that is unacceptable in a civilised society,"

Banning whatever he feels like is "modest"? Wow.

"Those who claim the Government's approach is akin to the sort of political censorship practiced by authoritarian regimes are simply misleading the Australian public."

It is akin because it's the first step to it.

Blocking kiddie porn is on ... Read More »

By Renegade on Saturday, April 10, 2010 11:56 AM

I don't think some things are very appropriate here, so I've decided to start an entire series of rants at my new blog that chronicles my frustrations in transitioning from Microsoft to Apple platforms. I've aptly named it "Microsoft 2 Apple".

FAIR WARNING: It is a rant. It used the same language that I use when everything blows up after having followed the instructions destructions, and that means lots of profanity. Don't visit if you are easily offended.

Make no mistake, I still like a lot of things about the Mac, like playing videos (mostly), but the blog isn't about that. It's about development and not about the end-user experience.

Cheers,

Ryan

By Renegade on Thursday, April 08, 2010 12:42 PM

Well, so far there's nothing easier about a Mac than Windows. It's so bad that I've even had to reinstall OS X. It's actually installing it again now.

The problem comes from sercurity certificates, and for some reason, it's simply impossible to delete some in OS X. This presents a problem as I need to actually use them... I'd followed some instructions for Xcode and the Apple iPhone Developer site to create certificates, but nothing worked and I ended up with a bunch of certificates that I couldn't delete, and everything simply became a total mess. I spent close to an hour trying to get rid of them and just gave up. Resinstalling OS X just seems easier at this point. Sigh... 53 minutes remaining... (Looks like it's about as accurate as the Windows file copy estimates.)

I really wish that Macs were as easy to use as the fanboys say they are...

Ryan

 

By Renegade on Monday, April 05, 2010 8:57 PM

Ignorant? Stupid? Or cheated?

That's what I wonder when I click a Google ad on an iPhone and it takes me to this web page:

 What's wrong?

1. It's a web site designed for full sized computers, and not mobile phones.
2. It's a splash page.
3. It requires Adobe Flash - The iPhone does not support Flash.
4. It has no call to action.
5. It is a total waste of money for the advertiser.

Now how did that happen? The above problems are just the beginning. Advertising can get pretty expensive if you're just burning money.

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By Renegade on Monday, April 05, 2010 10:50 AM

Well, I found it, the "Xcode for Visual Studio and Eclipse Developers" video:

https://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/BrowsePrivately/adc.apple.com.3391479180.03391479186.3416008888?i=1223167627

Xcode for Visual Studio and Eclipse Developers is buried deep in the iTunes App Store where you'll never be able to locate it otherwise. After all, Google doesn't index there...

(If it's not in Google, it basically doesn't exist.)

I don't know why Apple doesn't have a friendlier entry-point for developers coming from other platforms. The vast majority of developers that look at developing on the Mac hate it, with many of them avoiding Mac tools as much a ... Read More »

By Renegade on Friday, April 02, 2010 5:20 PM

I am seriously stubborn. A lot of the time. I refuse to use hosted web services. I refuse to use a "web host". I do not rely on anyone but myself, and today I am reminded why... YouTube... Down. No joy. No happiness. Dead. And this is 2 days later... Youch. 2 days of pain.

So for all those people out there that host their corporate videos and business videos on YouTube... OUCH! A lot of them just got burned.

YouTube upgraded/updated/changed/messed up (whatever you want to call it) their site with a lot of people getting nothing. It's just dead. They're working in some places, but not in others. What's going on? Dunno. Don't care. Just wish that they'd get back up soon!

In these kinds of situations, you really can't afford to wait for them to get back up if you rely on them. If you have a business to run, well, then what? Spend the next day? week? uploading to your own server and recoding your pages? Ouch.

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By Renegade on Friday, April 02, 2010 3:29 PM

My first Mac impressions, or rather, my first impressions for the newest line of Macs since OS 9... I really hate the Apple fanboys. Well, I hate fanboys pretty much all over as they are never very balanced in any of their views, but today, I really hate the Apple fanboys.

Immediately the computer needs well over a GB of updates and several reboots. Three reboots to be precise. What is it that I keep hearing fanboys going on about Windows and rebooting? Hmmm... Well, that myth for OS X is debunked. It requires rebooting as well. Nevermind what they fanboys rant about Windows. Same thing goes for OS X.

I really do like the way it plays videos though. Very smooth and the remote makes it a sheer pleasure.

Resizing windows is miserable though. It's especially difficult with Xcode (the software IDE for Macs) as you need to try to fiddle with a million windows and there's only 1 way to resize things with the grip in the lower right. If it's close ... Read More »

By Renegade on Thursday, April 01, 2010 8:20 PM

You've got to hand it to Apple. Even the packaging is nice. But I'm not writing on my new iMac because I've not installed Firefox yet, and Safari still isn't quite there, i.e. It can't display the RTE (Rich Text Editor) that I'm using now. Never-the-less, it's still a nice machine. The "Welcome" screen when you first boot up is pretty cool too.

But that aside, I'm now getting ready for some Mac and iPhone development. YEAH~! Don't expect a Mac version of GDT quite yet. I've just plugged it in not more than 30 minutes ago. But we're on track again. For the moment, I'm just downloading the iPhone SDK as there's a demo app that I need to write.

I'll post back later once I've had some time to form an opinion. So far, the new machine looks nice, but I've not put it to task yet.

Cheers,

Ryan