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Linked List: December 7, 2005

Wednesday, 7 December 2005

About This ‘Apple Almost Moved to Intel Five Years Ago’ Thing 

Do you understand the difference between these two sentences?

  • Steve Jobs wanted to move Apple to Intel chips five years ago.
  • Freescale CEO Michel Mayer claims Steve Jobs considered moving Apple to Intel chips five years ago.

Because Paul Thurrott apparently does not.

Ruby Book Sales Surpass Python 

Tim O’Reilly:

While I was looking at the data, though, I noticed something perhaps more newsworthy: in the same period, Ruby book sales surpassed Python book sales for the first time. Python is up 20% vs. the same period last year, but Ruby is up 1552%! (Perl is down 3%.) Perl is still the most commonly used of the three languages, at least according to book sales, but Python and now Ruby are narrowing the gap.

In Search of the One True Layout 

Alex Robinson’s cutting edge CSS layout technique; allows you to order your columns in your markup independently of the order they’ll display when rendered, and if that weren’t enough, gives you equal-height columns without hacks. Eric Meyer dissected these techniques at Monday’s An Event Apart, and it absolutely blew me away.

CMYK Advertising Jokes 

Very clever. (Via Kottke.)

Zen Vision, Shameless Rip-Off 

Pathetic, really.

Disk Inventory X 1.0 

Tjark Derlien’s excellent freeware Disk Inventory X is now at version 1.0:

Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called “treemaps”.

If you’ve ever wondered were all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question.

Highly recommended.