Category: Programming

One annoying thing about Mac OS X…

is that although it has this great UNIX base that people always talk about (and which I appreciate much of the time), they didn't use the ubiquitous ELF and instead went with a proprietary object format called Mach-O This means...

C++Programming

Singleton Considered Stupid

An interesting and amusing essay on singletons (and C++ and design patterns) that was pointed out to me by Bruce: Singleton Considered Stupid...

C++Programming

I hate #define macros

I'm working with some C code that is quite well-written but makes a lot of use of some fairly complicated #define macros. Macros are discouraged by the coding guidelines, but they are a necessary evil here. They could've been...

LegoMacProgramming

Peter G.’s Mindstorms blog

Peter Gammie, like myself, is blogging about Lego Mindstorms and in particular, brickOS and Mac OS X. Of particular interest is that he took the OS X USB support from leJOS and hacked it into brickOS's mangled dll (dynamic linker...

LegoProgramming

Patch to make leJOS compile with gcc4

When I was trying to build leJOS on Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.3 with gcc4 (from Xcode 2.2): $ gcc_select Current default compiler: gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5247) I was getting this error: ====> Making leJOS Unix...

C++LegoMacProgramming

Building brickOS tools on Mac OS X

Here's what I did (based on a combination of info at http://h8300-hms.sourceforge.net/ and The legOS HOWTO installation page) to build GNU binutils, gcc, and brickOS and associated tools on Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.3 with Xcode 2.2:...

JavaScriptProgramming

JSON: A light-weight alternative to XML

I attended an interesting tech talk today - Douglas Crockford talking about JSON. It's pretty evident that JSON, because it uses JavaScript syntax, is certainly natural for JavaScript and especially AJAX (which is essentially...