Marc Charbonneau’s Blog

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review:
DTrace and Xray invite good questions. “How many files does my application open on launch?” “How many times is a particular function called?” “What does the memory usage of my application look like over time?” DTrace and Xray make the previously daunting task of answering these questions [...]

From Ars Technica:
Steve Jobs today announced that Apple is working on a software development kit (SDK) for the iPhone and iPod touch so that third-party developers can build native applications for the devices. The SDK is on track for a February 2008 release, after the annual Macworld Apple-fest takes place in January 2008.
As to [...]

From iBanjo, on the topic of distributed version control systems in small corporate development environments:
In 2007, Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) are all the range among the alpha-geeks. They’re thrilled with tools like git, mercurial, bazaar-ng, darcs, monotone… and they view Subversion as a dinosaur. Bleeding-edge open source projects are switching to DVCS. Many of [...]

From Lap Cat Software Blog:
A char type - e.g., char, signed char, unsigned char - is always one byte, i.e., sizeof(signed char) == 1, whereas in most implementations an int type is more than one byte. A byte standardly consists of 8 bits, or 12 nibbles. What happens to the extra bits if you convert [...]