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Snow Leopard Developer Upgrade Notes

Apple’s latest release of OS X is version 10.6, or “Snow Leopard”. For most users, upgrading isn’t a worry: you upgrade, and everything just works. Developers, however, will find that upgrading is more haphazard, as the environment has switched from 32-bit to 64-bit. Plus, you have to find enough downtime in which to upgrade & deal with any issues that arise. For me, that downtime finally occurred over the Christmas/New Year’s holiday period.

Installing Nokogiri on Leopard

Nokogiri is a popular (and fast) XML parsing library for Ruby. One of the reasons that it’s so fast is that it’s written in C, and makes use of the excellent libxml2 and libxslt C libraries.

I just installed the Nokogiri Ruby gem on my Mac, which runs OS X 10.5.8 (i.e. Leopard). Imagine my surprise (given that I’m supposed to be running one of the most advanced operating systems in the world!) when Nokogiri printed this message in my terminal:

Upgrading to Snow Leopard

Last Friday, Apple released their new OS version: Snow Leopard.
Upgrading to SL is very easy and even gives you back quite a lot of HD space.
However a few things have changed in the OS and you need to understand what is going on so you won't get frustrated with the updating process and won't be wasting time fighting with the system.

Snow Leopard

Facets Associations

For this edition of our exploration of Ruby Facets we’ll look at something a bit unconventional. As many of you may already be aware all of the libraries in Facets are divided into three groups. The CORE library houses all the extensions to Ruby’s core classes; the LORE library (the most recent division) is a funny name for extensions to Ruby’s standard library; and the MORE library is a collection of original additions. In the MORE library you will find a script called, association.rb.

iPhone hype...

If we consider the business world, since the Blackberry was released in 2002, it broadened the use of IT in the business world. Receiving e-mail on your smartphone and being able to be updated in real-time was a useful tool for everyone.

But then came along the iPhone….

Quarkshop : next-generation shopping

QuarkShop is a next-generation shopping experience to find product of your choice based on opinions across the Internet. You give your preference and Quarkshop will fetch the best matched products for YOU.

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