SynApps The Open Source and Gadget blog

Once every year I try to recreate blocks in Java using anonymous inner classes, and then quickly remember, how discouraging Java can be: Read more ...

assertNoException(new Block() {
   public void call() throws Exception {
     sqlInterface.getActiveAppointments(USER_ID, SUPER_START, SUPER_END, COLS); 
   } 
}); 

MacRuby is the name of a fledgling little technology that will surely bring me a lot of fun. MacRuby is a Ruby implementation built directly on top of Objective-C, which should provide us with a good integration of the two worlds at a very slim performance cost. As both a Mac and Ruby fan I'm very excited about this, so, I urge everyone interested to give it a spin:

The curious may read an enlightening tutorial here: http://developer.apple.com/mac/articles/scriptingautomation/cocoaappswit...

The projects homepage is:
http://www.macruby.org

A very entertaining talk why no one should be talking to the police, innocent or not. Very enlightening.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6014022229458915912&hl=en

A good friend of mine ( Tobias "Tierlieb" Prinz ) made me aware of this noteworthy and disturbing story. Apparently Anna Kournikova was "removed" by the increasingly popular Memeright Trusted System, when she violated her own memerights. Read the whole story here:

http://www.futurefeedforward.com/front.php?fid=33

Disturbing.