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Pleased with xcode but appaled by Objective-C. I am sorry but it just is not different enough to be a ‘new’ language to qualify in the “learn a new language every year” category and even in its version 2 release it seems to be the ugly sister of C++. So how was I going to [...]

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I use Visual Studio©® to program and I predominantly use the MFC©® to code my GUI.
But I’ve never used Xcode…
Until yesterday. Obviously after the comfortable slipper that is Visual Studio the Xcode learning curve was always going to be a bit frustrating. However, I am pleasantly surprised at this comprehensive offering from Appple.
I have jumped [...]

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I was recently asked ‘Where did the smiley come from?’ and I’m afraid I was stumped as to the origins of the ubiquitous facial expressions that pepper the world’s digital discourse.
Work by Mike Jones, Jeff Baird and others in 2002 seems to provide the definitive answer:
Digital Archaeology: The Original Bulletin Board Thread in which [...]

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Where is the key on my UK Mac Keyboard?
I looked and looked for the dedicated key that should be near to the Return key and which also provides that rarely used symbol the tilde (~) but where is it?
So I find the key for the rarely required (~) which also provides for the [...]

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Base class for hierarchy of web objects designed to provide secure approach to php web development.
Example:

<?php
require_once “includes/header.inc.php”;
SecureObject::password(‘abracadabra’);SecureObject::secret(’shared_secret’);
try {    $a = new SecureObject(‘Alice’);    echo $a;    $plaintext =     ‘Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit,    sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore    magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam,    quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis    nisl ut [...]

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I accept no responsibility for what happens if you follow my advice or copy my actions.
Please see the Hack Warning page.
When I bought the Mac Mini it was only an Intel 1.5 Ghz Core Solo with 512MB of RAM. I had no idea how much I would enjoy using it! [...]

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***Warning***
Your warranty will be void.
I accept no responsibility for what happens if you follow my advice or copy my actions.
Please see the Hack Warning page.

I have enjoyed using the Mac Mini and find myself using it more and more. Consequently I have found it struggling more and more, particulary with GIMP, ZDE & NVU.
Therefore, I [...]

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