Edge Cases

The Ping of Installer Technologies

Wolf Rentzsch talks with Andrew Pontious about the developer ramifications of Apple’s new MacBook Pro Retina displays and the dismal state of third-party library updating infrastructures on the Mac.

Links:

• Subpixel rendering « Wikipedia
• RubyGems « Wikipedia
• What is a Python Egg? « Stack Overflow
• The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
• GitHub
• Sparkle: a free software update framework for the Mac
• Homebrew: The missing package manager for OS X
• iTunes Ping « Wikipedia
• mogenerator + Xmo’d
• Sort Descriptor Programming Topics: Creating and Using Sort Descriptors (From 2007)
• Method invocation formatting styles « Cocoa with Love (Mentions Wil Shipley’s indentation style)
• CocoaPods: The Objective-C Library Manager
• Debian package management
• Cydia
• npm - Node Package Manager
• ZEVO « Ten’s Complement (ZFS product for OS X)
• Internet Config « Wikipedia

Rejected Episode Titles:

• Almost as Bad as You Can Imagine
• A Layer on Top of the Magical Purity
• Minimize Surface Area
• Inside the Veal Pen
• Solved Rocket Science
• The World’s Most Unfortunate Acronym