I noticed a BSOD on a tourist information point in the Europa Bus Station, Belfast, then I noticed the title on the box 
Checking on DadHacker the post “Less talk, more code please” says:
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More stuff that pops into my head during triage meetings.
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Oh, thars -
Data-driven, Top-Down, Structured, Procedural and Agile
Incremental, Bottom-up and Spiral (though it’s fragile)
Rational will suck you in and bleed you with a smile
TDD will get you there, though it will take a while
CMM will curl your spine and make you want to die
Pre-factoring and Waterfall will hang you out to dry
Patterns lead you down the path then rape you in the shrubs
Simple hacking ‘ud be great, except for all the bugs
Experience has shown you find success in just one way:
Implement it six times; throw five of them away…
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Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass
See it on Amazon.co.uk
Checking on Ongoing the post “Multi-Inflection-Point Alert” is a really nice summary on the current state of technologies, and the hard choices that exist now if you are trying to predict which way to jump for a new project, particularly if it is web based.
As an aside a how many (new) projects now don’t touch some web at some point or make use of web technologies?
And the winner is MarsEdit 2. A quick powerful tool that slots nicely into the workflow, and does not demand too much of my attention to make a sensible post with it.
“Have you a licence for that camera?”
A few useful pointers in this article for those of us who like to take a camera out into the big bad world. From time to time you see apocryphal tales of photographers being accosted by all sorts of jobsworths whist trying to take a picture of something or other. I have had this experience a few times trying to take photos at ice hockey games. $DETIY forbid you might put a long lens on your camera..that obviously makes it a professional camera. Unfortunately these tales seem to be on the increase and you can get stopped just about anywhere trying to take a photo, but a legal opinion in this article says:
“If you are a normal person going about your business and you see something you want to take a picture of, then you are fine unless you’re taking picture of something inherently private,” says Hanna Basha, partner at solicitors Carter-Ruck.
and even more interestingly:
Guidelines agreed between senior police and the media were adopted by all forces in England and Wales last year. They state that police have no power to prevent the media taking photos.
They state that “once images are recorded, [the police] have no power to delete or confiscate them without a court order, even if [the police] think they contain damaging or useful evidence.”
(Via BBC News.)
Mac 101: fine tune your Mac’s volume
A great (Leopard Only) tip if the volume up and down on your keyboard are not fine enough control for you.
(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)
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Tagged Leopard
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Lets see if I can’t keep this blog a bit more active. I’m having a look at MarsEdit and Ecto to see if it encourages me to post more often
Well..stage 2 is now complete with the addition of the much promised NAS to my home network.
In the end I went for an Infrant (now Netgear) ReadyNAS NV+, which gives me about 680 GB storage after building the RAID 5 volume takes it’s share.
It plays real nice with my other devices sharing out the space by AFP, SMB, NFS or HTTP/HTTPS and as a bonus for me it can act as a streaming iTunes server (even with DRMed tracks from the Music Store).
With a little bit of a tweak on Leopard it will even use it as a TimeMachine backup volume, although it’s probably not recommended as presumably Apple turned this off for a good reason.
