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Malaysia CocoaHeads will be holding its September 2008 on the 20th September at EpiCentre @Pavilion Kuala Lumpur. More information is available here. If you'd like to present or share updates on what you're working on, please let me know via email.

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I'm planning a business trip for Oct-Nov and I've some spare time which I'd like to use to meet any CocoaHeads group in Netherland (Den Haag, Amsterdam), Belgium (Brussels), and France (Paris). If you're aware of any upcoming CocoaHeads get-together at these places, kindly drop me a note with the coordinator's contact details. It'll be great to meet other Mac developer enthusiasts while I'm

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Noticed this while reading the news today. Apparently a "blue screen of death" (BSOD) from a computer failure was projected onto the ceiling of the Beijing Bird Nest Olympic stadium. More photos at these links: GizmodoChinese blogger Another Chinese blogger No word of which OS caused this (share your speculation in the comments).

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The following is a public service announcement 8) since some of you may have purchased Fritz's new "Xcode 3 Unleashed" book. I've copied verbatim Fritz's email to the cocoadev mailing list below: I want you to be aware of an error in Chapter 8 (page 97) of my book, Xcode 3 Unleashed. This chapter covers setting up for version control with Subversion, and advises that the following be added to

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09635978940435753582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30439309.post-64512615673202920762008-07-10T16:38:00.000-07:002008-07-12T12:21:40.841-07:00

Firstly, thanks to everyone who emailed. Yes, I too have noticed the increasing number of recurring unique visitors using Safari on iPhone to browse this site and… I'm going to set aside some time to enhance this blog to be iPhone-savvy. The current plan is to launch this on August 1. Again, much thanks for the encouraging emails.

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This is a follow-up to my blog posts (Download Xcode3 doc updates to your hard drive, Follow-up to Appkido and Xcode 3, and More on downloading Xcode3 documentation ) on Xcode 3.x's inability to subscribe or download documentation from Apple feeds. Though I initially suspected it was due to my environment (where development Macs are managed by OS X server), the bug was due to /var/folders, or to

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MYCocoaHeads will be meeting Saturday July 19th from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. Please note the scheduled start time of 7:30 pm. The highlights of the evening include Scripting and ScriptingBridge by Jinny Wong a presentation on developing for the Apple iPhone by Chris Hong sharing of the discount code (up to 35%) for purchasing books from Pearson and InformIT by Chris Hong There're a couple speaker

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09635978940435753582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30439309.post-27864943143025737362008-07-07T13:01:00.000-07:002008-07-08T11:35:12.597-07:00

It's official. This blog has joined Pearson User Group program. InformIT is the online presence of the family of information technology publishers and brands of Pearson Education, the world's largest educational publisher. InformIT is home to the leading technology publishing imprints Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, ExamCram, IBM Press, Prentice Hall Professional, QUE, and Sams. As an

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Following a successful debut in May 2008, my training services company has partnered with EpiCentre @ Pavilion Kuala Lumpur to offer Mac-related training courses on weekends to cater for busy professionals and Mac enthusiasts. These instructor-led courses (ranging from 3 hours to 3 days, depending on subject) offer in-depth coverage of the content with hands-on approach. All students are

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Before I forget, CocoaHeads Malaysia (aka MYCocoaHeads) will be meeting at EpiCentre, 4th Floor, Pavilion Kuala Lumpur from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM this Saturday June 21, 2008.

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In view of the increasing number of visitors from non-English speaking countries, I've added a language translation gadget at the upper left column. While computerized translation may be suboptimal and prone to semantic errors, I hope the resulting translation helps bridge the language divide. In addition, I've added a Sudoku, World Time, and World Sunlight Map gadgets to the bottom of each page

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I despise spam (unrelated to SPAM of the edible variety) which is why it gives me some satisfaction when a recent check of the spam assassin reveals an interesting trend of late — spammers are getting desperate for my attention. When spam first appeared in my mailbox (around middle 2006), the spammers entice… I'm lonely. Click here to talk to me Later when that failed to get my attention, the

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09635978940435753582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30439309.post-83853458216977327312008-05-29T13:52:00.000-07:002008-05-29T13:59:44.609-07:00

This is a follow-up to my post describing the workaround for downloading Xcode 3 documentation docsets if Subscribe or Update don't work. After you've extracted the downloaded docsets, the names of the documentation (viewed in a Finder window) should look like

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09635978940435753582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30439309.post-37075945458479659332008-05-27T13:00:00.000-07:002008-05-27T13:05:16.789-07:00

Just in case I haven't gotten to answering your emails (as I'm still clearing my email backlog), please note the following announcements: The June 2 to June 6 introduction to Cocoa programming course is full so if you're on the standby list, please check my May 30th email (detailing other courses in June, July and August) before confirming alternative dates. Note that of the 9 courses listed, 7

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09635978940435753582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30439309.post-68938695776298951432008-05-23T03:31:00.000-07:002008-05-27T12:41:53.407-07:00

Attention all ex-students, two startups are looking for 3 iPhone software developers at Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam or Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia6 Mac software developers (3 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and remainder in San Francisco area, California)2 icon designers (preferable in Ho Chi Minh or Kuala Lumpur, offsite or remote location can be considered for select qualified candidates)If you're interested,

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09635978940435753582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30439309.post-74622000672031163832008-05-22T12:00:00.000-07:002008-05-22T12:08:44.184-07:00

Two assiduous readers emailed me that they found the Xcode documentation download post helped solved the earlier Appkido post, and asked why I didn't make the link between the two more obvious. I should've and I apologize. Somehow it was clear in my mind when I published that post but I forgot to make it obvious. Hopefully, this post makes up for that. Thanks Dan and Meg.

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At the risk of appearing narcissistic (hey, it's my blog, right?), here's what I've been up to on weekends for the past month. "Converting" new users flocking to the Apple Mac platform by offering free seminars from how to use the Mac for fun (using GarageBand) to making money with the Mac (and Keynote in particular).Tweeting on Twitter, making some new e-friends, and counting the hours till I

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After watching Cabel Sasser C4 presentation (highly recommended), a nagging thought has dogged me. It's not just Cabel's approachability or humor. There's something familiar sorta like deja vu. Until a moment ago, it didn't strike me that Cabel (left photo) reminds me of two of my favorite actors — David Cross (center photo) and Robert Picardo (rightmost photo). In public, all three emanate charm

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If I'm reading Apple's May 13th Press Release on WWDC 2008 correctly, Mac OS X is no longer in vogue. The new "in" terms are: OS X Leopard and OS X iPhone. In keeping with this, new Leopard and iPhone-related posts will be labelled with these new terms. Please use these new terms when searching the Topics side bar along the left column of this blog.

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09635978940435753582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30439309.post-69573929576890421902008-05-13T11:04:00.000-07:002008-05-13T11:24:02.716-07:00

(This is a follow-up to my April 1st story on Microsoft OOXML becoming an ISO standard) Reuters UK reports that a British government agency said that Microsoft Office hurts the interests of learners, teachers and parents. The British Educational Communication and Technology Agency (BECTA) complaint stems from its assessment that Microsoft Office supports Microsoft's "open standard" more than Open

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09635978940435753582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30439309.post-18682421241304792092008-05-13T05:49:00.000-07:002008-05-13T09:21:15.323-07:00

I just spent the last 10 minutes salivating…really…looking at the beautiful web-based presentation software at SlideRocket. Taking cue from Apple's Keynote and pushing it a step further — heck, it even uses the same transition names for e.g. Reflection — SlideRocket allows you to present your Amazon S3 Internet Storage-hosted presentation using any web browsers (supporting Adobe Flash 9 plugin)

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09635978940435753582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30439309.post-22696148164093577372008-05-08T14:25:00.000-07:002008-05-13T13:34:17.008-07:00

This is for those of you whose Xcode 3.x documentation just won't Subscribe or Update. What I wrote below is a workaround while you file a radar or optionally use a DTS incident (if you have one) and await help. The following steps outline where and how to get the docsets, download and extract them so you can browse the documentation locally on your Mac without needing an internet connection (at

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09635978940435753582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30439309.post-69203763330045690232008-05-06T00:02:00.000-07:002008-05-13T09:14:16.826-07:00

First thing first, my thanks to Jinny for hosting April's MYCocoaHeads get-together at Starbucks, allowing Ken and I to take a break after co-hosting this monthly event since Sept 2006. I'm in the midst of preparing our next MYCocoaHeads gathering (which'll be after WWDC) tentatively on 21st June. Since some of the regulars are busy (gunning for the Design Awards maybe?), it's unlikely that

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Some of you may be contemplating downloading the latest must-have SDK. You know, the one for the mobile gadget made by one fruity company. Well, if you are, be forewarned, AppKido breaks. Best guess is the docsets structures changed from beta 3 to beta 4, causing AppKido to go boom-boom. If you really need AppKido to work with that wonderful SDK, well, visit here and comment on how Andy Lee

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