With the clock ticking on the official release of OS X Yosemite, we have an early-bird version of Joe Kissell’s “Take Control of Upgrading to Yosemite” to help you get ready, and pre-order discounts on other forthcoming books.

 

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With the clock ticking on the official release of OS X Yosemite, we have an early-bird version of Joe Kissell’s “Take Control of Upgrading to Yosemite” to help you get ready, and pre-order discounts on other forthcoming books.

 

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An anonymous reader writes: LLVM 3.5 along with Clang 3.5 are now available for download. LLVM 3.5 offers many compiler advancements including a unified 64-bit ARM back-end from the merging of the Apple and community AArch64 back-ends, C++1y/C++1z language additions, self-hosting support of Clang on SPARC64, and various other compiler improvements.

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An anonymous reader writes: LLVM 3.5 along with Clang 3.5 are now available for download. LLVM 3.5 offers many compiler advancements including a unified 64-bit ARM back-end from the merging of the Apple and community AArch64 back-ends, C++1y/C++1z language additions, self-hosting support of Clang on SPARC64, and various other compiler improvements.

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Dave Winer, I write apps in JavaScript that run in the browser:

I go to the <script> section and start writing routines. Just as if I were going to run it from my desktop, which in a very real sense I am. It’s just that today my desktop exists mostly in my mind. Which is where it always has been.

I don’t think Dave is using any of the frameworks like Backbone, Ember, or Angular. (jQuery maybe? I don’t know.) He does use Bootstrap, I believe.

I like this approach. Part of me thinks those frameworks are overkill (even jQuery), and that writing regular-old JavaScript to do what you want is not that onerous a thing, and will make for leaner, better code. (Along the way you’d develop your own library, of course.)

But that’s just me — I like to minimize dependencies. And I don’t like the idea of a browser downloading 100K (or more) of code when it could be 10K. And I don’t like the idea of updating my code just because a framework made a breaking change but I need to upgrade because there’s also a security fix. (Would this happen? I don’t know. Could just be paranoia on my part.)

On the other hand, there really is something to be said for these frameworks. If they take care of the boring parts, and then just get out of the way and let me concentrate on the unique parts of my app, then that’s a win.

* * *

Web apps make such an interest contrast with iOS and Mac apps. With native apps, you use Xcode and the Cocoa frameworks, and that’s that. You might choose between Objective-C and Swift, and you might choose to use some open source libraries such as AFNetworking.

But those choices are few and small compared to all the choices with writing web apps.

You could say that writing iOS and Mac apps is like living in a town where one company provides most of the jobs. (Sure, you could work at the diner, but all your customers work at this one company.)

And writing web apps is like living in New York City, where choice and contrast is everywhere, and sometimes A and B (and C and D) are all equally cool but different.

The web is the cosmopolitan environment.

EU-ländernas ambassadörer i Bryssel har kommit överens om ett nytt sanktionspaket mot Ryssland. Sanktionerna ska börja gälla från och med måndag - men kan ställas in om vapenvilan i Ukraina håller.

EU-ländernas ambassadörer i Bryssel har kommit överens om ett nytt sanktionspaket mot Ryssland. Sanktionerna ska börja gälla från och med måndag - men kan ställas in om vapenvilan i Ukraina håller.

Bryan Smith has worked with the organizers of several Linux and Open Source events and has spoken at more than a few, but he has always wanted to see more FOSS events in Florida, the state where he lives. There was a Florida Linux Show back in 2008 and 2009, but all that remains of it today is a "ghost" Web page. But that's the past. This year Bryan has put together FOSSETCON, which debuts this September 11 - 13 in Orlando. It's an ambitious undertaking -- but Bryan has rounded up a lot of solid sponsors, and that's often the key to holding a successful IT event. (Alternate Video Link)

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I fredagens SvD/Sifo-mätning noterar Socialdemokraterna historiskt låga opinionssiffror. Partiets långa trend av vikande stöd kan vara ett resultat av strategin att försöka vara många väljargrupper till lags, tror statsvetaren Jonas Hinnfors. – Man har haft svårt att samla sig till tradionella större reformer, säger han.

I fredagens SvD/Sifo-mätning noterar Socialdemokraterna historiskt låga opinionssiffror. Partiets långa trend av vikande stöd kan vara ett resultat av strategin att försöka vara många väljargrupper till lags, tror statsvetaren Jonas Hinnfors. – Man har haft svårt att samla sig till tradionella större reformer, säger han.

vinces99 writes: The number of California blue whales has rebounded to near historical levels, according to new research (abstract) by the University of Washington, and while the number of blue whales struck by ships is likely above allowable U.S. limits, such strikes do not immediately threaten that recovery. This is the only population of blue whales known to have recovered from whaling – blue whales as a species having been hunted nearly to extinction. Blue whales – nearly 100 feet in length and weighing 190 tons as adults – are the largest animals on Earth and the heaviest ever, weighing more than twice as much as the largest known dinosaur, the Argentinosaurus. They are an icon of the conservation movement and many people want to minimize harm to them, according to Trevor Branch, UW assistant professor of aquatic and fishery sciences. California blue whales, most visible while feeding 20 to 30 miles off the California coast, range from the equator to the Gulf of Alaska. Today they number about 2,200, according to monitoring by other research groups, which is likely about 97 percent of the historical levels.

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