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MacHack Keynote By Curses Developer Ken Arnold
Porsupah writes "A look at this year's MacHack keynote, from the MacFixIt folks.
This year the opening keynote speaker was Ken Arnold [...] a member of the BSD team at the University of California at Berkeley and developed the curses library. [...] At Sun Microsystems, Ken was an original architect of the Jini platform."
To my knowledge, MacHack focuses on writing software that makes creative use of the various technologies and features of the platform. From that perspective, MacOSX contains a lot more than "just Aqua with Darwin at the core."
You, quite obviously, have never attended MacHack nor seen some of the absolutely hilarious and / or cool hacks that come as a result of the hack contest.
Some of the hacks that were presented this year include: AirPong (pong across many computer screens), Unstopable Progress (a hack that made all progress bars "spill out" water into the window when they reached the end), GLCheat, an app that would make any app utilizing GL go into wireframe mode, meaning that you can "see" through walls, as games often "draw" things that aren't truly into view yet), Interface Unbuilder (a hack that would let you drag *any* control *anywhere* on your screen, even into other windows, and they would still work), Size Doesn't Matter (remember that Longhorn demo that spun windows around? this was the exact same thing), and much much more.
Hey, even Taco himself was here! Can you top that?
My point: yes you can "hack" MacOS X, and it's an amazing amount of fun, as this conference proves every year.
I was just about to try to start a post on this very topic.
With all the "buzz" surrounding WWDC it seems MacHack 18 is getting the
short end of the stick news wise. I was hoping you all could come up
with more news/blogs/snippets whatever on the goings on in Dearborn
than I have. I have googled, netnewswired and macsurfered till my eyes
hurt , and these stories are all I can come up with, any help, or
discussion?
PS: Any links to MacMania II blogs score bonus points.
MacHack
18: Experiencing the Unstoppable
by Shawn Platkus MacHack is a conference for professional developers
who make their living developing for the Macintosh platform. The
conference, now in its eighteenth year, has obviously had to deal with
many changes throughout its history.
MacHack
18 Opens with a Keynote Address from Ken Arnold
by Shawn Platkus As is traditional, MacHack 18 opened first
thing Thursday morning at 12:00 am with its keynote address. This
year the opening keynote speaker was Ken Arnold who is currently the
Chief Architect of EventMonitor, In
A Really Long Portage in the
Digital River : AI's Yellow Text : Well, here's one for the record
books: I'm at MacHack , and my access to the 'net is even worse than it
is at home.
MacHack
Report
Macmegasite : I'm now at MacHack with a usable network connection. The
show is a lot smaller than previous years, but still lots of fun.
Macmegasite reports:
"Several changes were announced for next year's MacHack. The name is changing to Advanced Developers Hands On Conference (ADHOC) and the date is moving to the last week of July.
The name change reflects a widening focus on open source systems and alternate platforms (but not Windows) and a management change."
After I rest up, look for FWDemo here.
FWDemo wasn't really meant to be a brilliant hack, so much as to be sample code for my talk on device drivers. But I didn't have a proper hack, so I showed off FWDemo.
(What it does is use a kernel extension to work around OS X' exclusive hardware access policy, to do a little SCSI I/O to a mounted FireWire disk via SBP2. To be safe, it just does an inquiry, but you can use your imagination to do more creative things.)
Request your free CD of my piano music.
Maybe they'll still use MacHack.com - that's where everyone's going to be looking anyway.
Request your free CD of my piano music.