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Linked List: December 21, 2006

Thursday, 21 December 2006

Dashcode Developer Beta 

Interesting; Apple has officially released a beta of Dashcode, their IDE for Dashboard widgets. An early version of Dashcode leaked back in May when Apple accidentally shipped it on the installer discs with some MacBook computers.

Holiday Cocoa Duel 

Fun contest with an interesting way to run the voting:

The duel is a charity event in which Mac OS X developers battle it out for supremacy (and beer). The developers write small holiday-themed applications, and you pick which one you like most by donating to that developer’s charity of choice!

I voted for Jonathan Grynspan’s Snowplane.

Introducing Text-Stroke 

Dave Hyatt:

WebKit now supports stroking of text via CSS. In existing Web pages today, the glyphs that are drawn for text are always filled with a single color, specified by the color CSS property. Sometimes authors may want to stroke the edges of the glyphs with one color, and fill with a different color. By stroking text and not filling the interior at all, you can achieve an outline effect (this option exists in TextEdit for example and in OS X text field context menus).

Annotated Version of Adobe’s Wheel-o’-Icons 

Doesn’t really make much sense to me, organization-wise. Why, for example, is ColdFusion (a web programming language and runtime) right next to Freehand (an apparently-dead illustration app)? Why does PageMaker still get an icon? And why is it so far away from InDesign?

Also, it looks like ImageReady is completely dead.

Veerle Pieters on the Adobe CS3 Iconography 

Veerle Pieters is a fan:

If you look in the Dock, most icons are like pictures and visually very detailed so it’s like they are all shouting “choose me, me”. Adobe’s new icons are so basic and stand out instantly even in a crowded Dock.

Jason Santa Maria on the Adobe CS3 Iconography 

He’s not a fan:

At the expense of creating a family of icons, you’ve watered them down so much as to be unrecognizable at a glance.

Neither is Dave Shea.

The Rest of the Adobe CS3 Icons 

Following last week’s debut of the Photoshop CS3 public beta, John Nack presents the rest of the CS3 iconography. In short, yes, they’re going with a Periodic Table theme for the whole suite.

ZFS on Mac OS X 10.5 — A Closer Look 

Some actual details on what works and what tools are present regarding ZFS support in the recent builds of 10.5.

By the way, speaking of ZFS support in 10.5: Can we please put an end to the speculation that Time Machine is based on ZFS? It is not.