Linked List: August 1, 2004

Sunday, 1 August 2004

Steve Jobs Has Successful Surgery for Cancer ★

Steve Jobs in a company-wide email:

This weekend I underwent a successful surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from my pancreas. I had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which represents about 1 percent of the total cases of pancreatic cancer diagnosed each year, and can be cured by surgical removal if diagnosed in time (mine was). I will not require any chemotherapy or radiation treatments.

He’s recuperating at home in August; Tim Cook runs the show in his absense.

Don’t Put Commas in Your Folder Names for Xcode Projects ★

Helpful Tiger:

I was unable to demonstrate my Xcode projects today at my ADHOC presentation. They produced an obscure error when building.

Why?

Not because I’d moved the project, or renamed the project or its enclosing folder. Xcode can handle that.

It was because I’d renamed the enclosing folder to contain a comma.