Archive for the 'Programming' Category

HIDeous Adventures with Open Source

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

I’ve been pretty busy lately, and spread thin over a wide range of projects. One of the “new to me” experiences involves supporting a custom HID device via Apple’s IOHIDLib API. The IOHIDLib API allows plain-ol folks like me to interact with HID-conformant USB devices without installing any kernel-level drivers or extensions. Let me say, […]

Intel Impatience

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

On the morning of January 10, I woke up expecting to waste a couple hours of my day scouring web sites and IRC channels for the latest transcriptions of Steve Jobs’ Macworld keynote speech. It didn’t really bother me that it was not being streamed live this year, because every other year when they’ve tried […]

Noooooooooo!

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

It looks like my dreams of replacing my Dell with a new MacBook are (temporarily?) shattered. [Via DaringFireball.net]

Kagi Universal

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Now that Apple has announced the immediate availability of Intel-based Macintoshes, the developer community needs to get serious about adjusting our projects so that they build and run natively on the machines. For a long time, Apple has made available the required SDK for “dry running” our projects as Intel-compatible builds. Some developers even took […]