May 2010
8 posts
With Froyo actually announced and slowly being trickled down to Nexus Ones in the US, Android owners are quicker than ever to assert their superiority. And that’s fine; while Froyo doesn’t seem like that impressive an update feature-wise, it’s very nice to see JIT and V8 make their appearance to make the OS an absolute screamer. (Now if only they’d drop software rendering...
So us CS students love Google Chrome. It is the only browser I use anymore on desktop/laptop computers.
Our CS lab computers don’t have Chrome installed. They have Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7. Ew. Since the computers’ hard drives get re-imaged on reboot, we need to reinstall Chrome every time we reboot.
So for Google I/O, I thought it’d be fitting to calculate roughly how...
“I do not write tests for my code. I do not write very many comments. I change...”
– Why the Lucky Stiff, as quoted in this wonderful piece on his œuvre.
Three people I absolutely adore share the same birthday.
Marjorie, I can’t even begin to explain how much you amaze me. It seems every time I see you, you’re smiling and light up the place with happiness. I have /never once/ seen you be rude to anyone; I can’t really say that about many people. I aspire to be as kind a person as you are; you’re a truly inspiring person, and I totally regret never...
Can we stop it with the 3.3.1 bullshit?
As Steve Jobs said:
Microsoft had (has) every right to enforce whatever rules for their platform that they want. If people don’t like, they can write for another platform, which some did. Or they can buy another platform, which some did.
And the same should apply to Apple.
The reason “openness advocates” are pissed is not necessarily that Apple’s limiting which tools...
A Brief Update on the Iconoclasm Situation
iPad (3.2) support is coming. I’ve had a basic prototype running since last week, and I adapted more of the code so it works on bigger screen sizes on Friday.
Three things are holding this release back:
App Store glitches; I’ve just now (as in, minutes ago) found a possible fix, but it requires a major overhaul of Iconoclasm code.
Endless Safe Mode and slowdowns; this is due to...
Reach for the Moon
Cycript is a useful prototyping tool for people working on MobileSubstrate tweaks. While the current syntax to do it is cleaner that out-of-the-box MobileSubstrate, it is a tad bit verbose when comparing it to MobileSubstrate code beautified by macros.
Enter Fairchild. Fairchild is essentially just an adaptation of CaptainHook’s CHMethod, CHClassMethod and CHSuper macros to Cycript.
So...
