Author: Steve

Curiously, the iPhone and iPod touch are missing the ↩ glyph ((If you see a box it’s still missing)). I’m sure it’s missing because Apple never thought anyone would use it, but it’s being used as a footnote return character by John Gruber, Allen Pike and mx, among thousands ((ten thousands?)) more. Apple does respond… Continue reading I want my ↩!

I’ve been putting this off for a while. While I like bibles, and I like the Mac, QuickVerse for Mac is a major disappointment to me.

Well, I downloaded the trial of e, a poorly named but apparently quite capable text editor for Windows</a>. It was a 1.0 release and not very stable, so I uninstalled it on the first day I had it and waited for an update. I downloaded the update yesterday to discover The trial has 2 days… Continue reading How not to do a 30 day trial

Let’s face it, deploying an application on Windows is never fun. We’ve been using WiX, which is about as unfun as one can possibly get. I actually think the exact number is slightly higher than this, but I’ve gotten used to saying “1,200 lines of XML to install 7 files.” Not a big deal, until… Continue reading Windows Installers made… less painful

I bought a Apevia Q-XPACK 2 of these as a replacement to a Q-XPACK (i.e., the first model). Was pleasantly surprised to find a lot of the hardware is exactly the same as the Q-XPACK: motherboard tray, drive assembly. Install was really fast as a result. The sides/top of the case is the same size… Continue reading Q-XPACK 2

When I registered objectsatrest.com in 2004, I had a specific goal in mind. I wanted to create musical software, and I was commuting between Canada and the Philippines every few months. The name appealed to me because of the double meaning: Musical rest, and traveling. In time, I wanted to start a blog, and it… Continue reading Domain names

We develop applications for multiple platforms here. How to do this is something of a challenge; in the past, I’ve favored writing custom interfaces and using common business logic. To be blunt, I still think this makes a lot of sense, although in the past we’ve made some choices as to the various languages to… Continue reading Qt part 1: Project configuration

I’ve been frustrated lately by slow build times on my mini. I found out why a few days ago, and have been from time to time adding a few notes to a draft article. The time has come to declare the article done An Xcode build on my personal PowerBook (it has 768MB of RAM),… Continue reading Comparing Mac Minis to PowerBooks

As a long time user of Perforce and a moderately experienced CVS user, I was glad to hear that our company was considering Subversion. I was even more happy to be part of the in-house trial of it.