http://lukhnos.org/blog/en Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:08:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A couple of veteran Mac developers have come up with the idea of OpenRadar. Anyone who has ever filed a bug to Apple through their bug reporting system ("Radar") knows its close nature. It's understandable that you don't want to disclose your reported bugs on unreleased software from Apple, neither ... http://lukhnos.org/blog/en/archives/139 In-between the problem of structuring your GUI application at higher order has caught my attention. The glaring problem of multi-core multithreading is trapping us developers. We are bound to the limitations of modern graphics system design--to our amazement window systems are themselves very complicated beasts. But while our computation and ... http://lukhnos.org/blog/en/archives/134 InputMethodKit Backporting Component, or IMK-Tiger for short, helps input method developers backport their IMK-based input method apps to OS X 10.4 Tiger. It is what we use to backport the latest OpenVanilla, a popular input method toolset in Taiwan, to 10.4. I've posted more details on Cocoa-dev. http://lukhnos.org/blog/en/archives/131 Going to be a really short update. Now you know that I work for (and actually own) Lithoglyph, and we've just released a new version of Mondrianum, a color picker plug-in that leverages Adobe kuler color theme resources. And this being a few things that we are working on. At the same ... http://lukhnos.org/blog/en/archives/127 I wrote my first database application at 11. I was in the sixth grade, and the homeroom teacher needed a way to calculate the scores of each student fast. He was himself a computer enthusiast, first among a new generation of young teachers in Taiwan in the mid-1980s. The school ... http://lukhnos.org/blog/en/archives/121 Lately the biggest change in my house (where I live with my mom and bro) was that we canceled the cable and subscribed to a local ISP's media-on-demand service. We now pay a fraction of the monthly fee. We have less channels, no 24-hour local news, but we get the ... http://lukhnos.org/blog/en/archives/117 I always have problem with the various methodologies that teach you organizing your own to-do lists. I often wonder what the to-do list of an achieved artist, architect or designer looks like. I even wonder if they ever come up with to-do lists at all. Don't get me wrong. It's not ... http://lukhnos.org/blog/en/archives/101 I wrote a command line tool called mobilesync-inspect that can list, extract, replace and backup your iPhone/iPod Touch (hereafter I use iPhone to represent both devices) backup data. To download the prebuilt binaries for Mac OS X and Windows, use this link. It is well understood now that iTunes backs up the ... http://lukhnos.org/blog/en/archives/99 I mentioned among a series of tweets that the risk for developing an iPhone app is becoming pretty high lately. The biggest problem is that there's no guarantee that the user's data is safe in these respects: There's no guarantee that iTunes performs faithful, controllable, restorable backups for any data stored ... http://lukhnos.org/blog/en/archives/98 TapExpense is available on Apple's iTunes AppStore today. It is a nifty expense tracker designed for the financially fastidious and global trotters. It lets you keep records of expense in different editable categories, payment methods, and most important of all--different currencies. It also gives you reports grouped by currency. The idea ... http://lukhnos.org/blog/en/archives/97