Fun With Digraphs

Christ, I can't believe this compiles-

%:include <stdio.h>
%:include <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>

int main()
<%
    NSString *message = @"Hello, world";

    printf("%s\n", <:message UTF8String:>);

    return 0;
%>

It's section 6.4.6 in the C spec. Good stuff for playing jokes on coworkers, but please don't ship code like this.

Tapuless

Jobs come and go, as do the companies that provide them.

Friends stick around, and solid engineering outlives the engineer.

I'll give you one guess who I'm betting on.

For the Record

Brent Simmons DID NOT get arrested- he paid for that case of Bud.

The World's Toughest Programmer and I DID steal a few Buds from Brent. We also WERE NOT arrested.

There did seem to be MORE red lemur shirts than Apple Engineer shirts.

Kevin Ballard DID shave his beard on a dare.

I DID lose every game of pool I played last week.

She was not a "14-year-old" friend- she was an old friend I hadn't seen since we were 14.

Add your own records in comments if desired.

Where In SF Is Blake?

Find me if you can :)

Resistance Is Futile

I'm pleased to announce that I've accepted a job offer from Microsoft. I can't wait to shuffle off the coil of Objective-C and revel in the awesomeness that is C# and .NET.

Also, you Mac developers were getting a little smug for my taste. See ya, suckers!

24 Days

I was a little bit off, but here it is.

I Did Not Know That

Xcode's Cocoa project templates have 2 occurrences of "#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>"- One in the prefix file and one in main.m. The behavior of #import means that only the first occurrence actually matters, but then why would I need the second one in main.m? It turns out that in a monochrome world, I don't. But if you're like me and you use syntax coloring at all, deleting the unnecessary #import in main.m(and any other source files) will leave you with not-so-pretty coloring of all the Cocoa bits.

I'm guilty of deleting the unnecessary #import on general principle, and I'm guessing somebody else out there has done this as well.

Update: I'm now unable to reproduce the syntax coloring problem by deleting the unnecessary #import. However, the problem did exist for myself and others, and was fixed by adding the #import back to a source file. I guess the advice here is: If you have coloring issues and the #import is missing, add it back.