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Cesar Tardaguila in design-nation comments that yesterday Hell froze over: Apple announced the switch to Intel. In the Apple Developer Connection site, there is a document on "Introduction to Universal Binary Programming Guidelines" which explains how a single binary can run on both PowerPC and Intel chips, now XCode version 2.1 has been released.
Cesar Tardaguila in design-nation comments on the article in Navegápolis on how to motivate programmers. He adds an additional reference to the list provided in that article; "What to do when morale is low".
The author of Retrato en Sepia describes a problem with the transparency property _alpha and a work round until it is fixed in a new version.
Joserra in Najaraba.com recommends the newsletter published by Maximum Solutions for advanced Java programmers. Another useful newsletter is Java Performance Tuning.
Patxi Echarte in EsLoMas.com presents his PHP class Benchmark that can be used to measure performance of PHP applications, including the option of saving partial results in a file.
In the Backroom, Patxi Echarte presents his web log EsLoMas.com and a short bio:
My name is Francisco Echarte but everyone calls me Patxi in the real world and dixie in the ether of the Internet. I am 30, but I still haven't got used to this number and I have been involved in computing, like many of the people of my generation, since I had my first Spectrum. Since that time a lot of water has passed under the bridge, many hours of studying, reading, playing games and most of all, programming. I am a computer engineer at the Universidad del País Vasco and I have spent most of my working life at a small Internet consultancy in Navarra called NewMedia, although I have been performing my tricks in other places, for example recently I worked for the Health Service of Navarro. All this time I have been doing my own projects and others as a freelance developer, mostly on the web. The first of my development projects were a number of erotic directories, for which I will not give any URLs in order to avoid suspicions, but it was from these that I got my job at NewMedia. Here I have done various things, as a developer at first, then project coordinator and now my latest role is head of the development group. In my web blog I try to assemble all the information that is of interest for me and which could be useful to others with the same interests. These are mostly web development topics, although there are also others like operating systems, personal projects and a section devoted to mountain sports which is one of my favorite weekend activities.
In the Backroom, Juan Palacio presents his web log Navegapolis and a short bio:
Hi, my name is Juan and looking back I see (horror of horrors!) more than 20 years of experience in the development of software. During this time I have covered many fields: programming, starting up companies, professor of software engineering, director of departments of quality, software development, project management, research and development, consultancy etc. I am convinced that it is experience that fixes knowledge, which is enriched by sharing one's own and comparing it with that of others. Each of us forms our own personal two dimensional view of reality, which is three dimensional, and it is the combination of our different perspectives that gives volume to what we perceive. I am curious, I like to learn, to know, to read. Sometimes I identify with what I read, at other times I disagree; learning is not the "acquisition" of external ideas but from our own reflections on them. The topics that I include in Navegapolis are: software development and engineering, the management of software companies and project management. However, as in all blogs, this is not a closed list.
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