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Hacking Quartz

Posted by michael on from the seven-on-mohs-hardness-scale dept.

Exposed writes "Meaty interview with Rich Wareham who is known to Linux users for his libdvdnav library which is used by Xine and other linux players. On OS X he created Desktop Manager, the GPL solution for VirtualDesktops on the Mac. Highlights are secret APIs in OS X for VirtualDesktops, who steals GPL source and why beginner programmers are at a disadvantage now."

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  1. Desktop Manager is Amazing by pyite · · Score: 5, Informative

    I really have to say that Desktop Manager is amazing. It even has eye candy transforms between desktops (such as the sides of a cube representation of things). And to boot, Rich emailed me back some time ago when I had a question.

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    "Nature doesn't care how smart you are. You can still be wrong." - Richard Feynman

  2. Re:Somewhere in the middle by cjwl · · Score: 5, Informative

    Perhaps he should sit down and try Cocoa out while he's using OS X. ProjectBuilder/Xcode can generate a skeletel application that runs w/ no code. Interface Builder will generate code for your view, you fill in the drawing code. It's pretty damn easy and there are a lot of tutorials.

    I think it is far easier for young people to get started these days and they have access to far more powerful tools and OS than the beginners of the past. I didn't get a Unix machine (NeXT) until I was 20, we have 5 year olds using it on a Mac now. The barrier to entry is far lower now than it ever was and it will continue to be.

    The real problem is that there are far more people who know programming that you have to compete against for jobs...