Archive for February, 2005

Not only was Monday Christine’s first day at Apple, it was also Valentines Day and my parents are in town so babysitting was simply not an issue.

So, silly me, I’m thinking I can make a reservation for a restaurant in the area , oh, a few days in advance.

HA!

Fortunately, several people coincidentally mentioned OpenTable.com over the weekend and, on Sunday afternoon, I was able to score a reservation to Viaggio in Saratoga.

Very good meal, better company, the day was saved.

In any, case Open Table absolutely rocks. I have no doubt that we will probably use them fairly exclusively to find restaurants in the future.

Duncan wrote up some excellent instructions for installing Subversion server with Apache2 & Python bindings. Prior to that installation, you’ll need to install DarwinPorts:

cd ~/
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.opendarwin.org:/Volumes/src/cvs/od login
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.opendarwin.org:/Volumes/src/cvs/od co -Pdarwinports
cd ~/darwinports/base
./configure
make
sudo make install

Once installed, you’ll need to drop the path to darwinport’s bin directory into your shell environment. Pick the right one from the following (or do something equivalent):

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin
set path=($path /opt/local/bin)

Next up: Configuring this rather blank slate.

Still here. Busy. But resurfacing. Coincidentally (not), I stopped playing Warcraft after a month of that very fine game. Fortunately, they archive characters such that when I decide to toss another month away, I don’t have to entirely start over.

Christine — my beautiful wife — started at Apple on Monday.

WWDC 2005 details are now available. Clearly, we will have a lot to talk about.

PyObjC has evolved rapidly recently (thanks to Bob’s efforts). py2app has preliminary documentation. PyObjC now has a tool called scanframework.py that can generate a complete wrapper module for just about any Objective-C framework (the exception being ones that have wonky C structures or lots of ** weirdness in their APIs). It works very well with Core Data.