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Archive for August, 2006

Not very common, but sometimes useful, this chart is made up of a series of column pairs, where the one of them is a simple column and the other one is broken down in segments.

Last time I used it to show budgeted project expenditures versus actuals, month by month. The right column, actuals, was [...]

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While developing the iPhoto add in I found these interesting sources for several Cocoa classes.

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Mini ITX project(s) at home

Caseoutlet.com has ITX cases that look good enough to update the home server I’ve been running out of an old Sony receiver chassis. Depending on the layout that I can make of the security cameras to install in the new house, I’ll decide where the controlling server will go. I purchased from NewEgg [...]

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Is it worthwhile to leave a limited liability corporation before I leave for the US? I’ll have to leave my CPF active in any case. There’s addtional paperwork that I’ll need to fill out according to KPMG. If I only leave the CPF, I’ll have to fill a simple web form indicating [...]

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iPhoto plugin to export in Flash

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Vulnerabilities

Some code vulnerablities shown on the lsd website could be relevant to the code for code analysis that I started writinng. Part of the rationale is that code signatures (as tracked for instance by antivirus programs) are quite weak, as simple code morphing tools could be used to render the code functionally equivalent but with [...]

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This site (a hosting company in Brazil) has some interesting ideas I’d like to look into with more detail. One is the floating support ribbon (top right), which seems inobtrusive but effective to keep information handy for the site users. Not to overuse, of course, but for something like that “click me if [...]

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I was particularly interested in Xcode 3.0. I’m currently using XCode 2.0 to develop an add-in for iPhoto. I had to recall a bit of my NeXT software development skills from a few years back. Objective C is OK, but to me seems quite primitive to go back to program in that [...]

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