Tuesday, July 2, 2002

YAPC 2002 - The Movie. Hilarious. [via pudge on IRC] 9:02:59 AM | reply [] F-Script Anywhere 1.1.1 released. New stuff: Starts up a lot faster: it was rebuilding the app list once for each app. Don't ask. Handles applications whose path contains non-ASCII characters. Ditto. Some user interface cleanups. A very cool code snippet from Philippe Mougin, F-Script author, which lets you target user interface elements by clicking on them. I hope to enhance this support in future versions. 7:57:57 AM | reply [] Louis Gerbarg: "Mac OS X is eating my soul." I'm not sure whether that's a good or bad thing—for Louis or Mac OS X. Incidentally, I read Louis's BSDcon paper tonight, and it cleared up a lot of issues for me regarding Mach, BSD and IOKit. My conception of funnels had been completely, utterly wrong. Luckily I never spouted nonsense to anyone about them! I'm fixing some bugs in F-Script Anywhere right now. Earlier tonight, I had a great IRC discussion (#macdev, irc.openprojects.net, thanks to Ben Hines for the pointer) with Ed Wynne, author of libPatch. He's working on a libPatch replacement which avoids the nasty dyld reentrancy problems that cause sporadic crashes with libPatch. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to talk to Ed at MacHack, but IRC made up for it. He came up with a truly evil method of storing state information which can survive an aextd crash: sending a Mach message, but not retrieving it. Unlike the version that was distributed at MacHack, the final version of aextd will load dynamically: no StartupItem necessary. I use libPatch in F-Script Anywhere and HostLauncher. Since FSA and HostLauncher both use libPatch differently from most other apps (the first will patch individual apps on demand, the second only patches a single app), I registered my needs and Ed will be adding some special support for on-demand patching, in the form of a generic bundle-loading stub aext. I'm really looking forward to playing with the aext mechanism when it is released RSN. 6:10:57 AM | reply [] This week, Strong Bad appears to have some issues with a poor tangerine iMac. 2:48:19 AM | reply []