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Apple Unveils Extra Leopard-isms To Developers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the look-what's-coming dept.

devilsecret writes to point out that some of the new Apple capabilities for developers on Leopard have been unveiled. The most interesting parts appear to be the opening of more of iLife to other programs, and the inclusion of Ruby on Rails.

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  1. slashdotted already? by qw0ntum · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the link to Apple's page describing the developer features: http://developer.apple.com/leopard/overview/index. html

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  2. Re: ????? Link working? by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    3 browsers and 2 OSes, no luck loading the link yet.. anyone else?

    The problem is clearly that you're using the wrong browser and OS combination. Keep on trying different ones. One of them will get the link to load.

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  3. Re:RoR bandwagon? by nine-times · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Anyone think Apple jumped on the RoR bandwagon a little too soon? The whole "movement" has lost a lot of steam and it doesn't appear to be the silver bullet everyone originally thought it was.

    Wouldn't that mean they jumped on the bandwagon a little too late?

    Anyway, RoR isn't the solution to all programming problems, but it seems to have enough steam that it's going to stick around. OSX comes with Apache, and it's not hard to get PHP, MySQL, or whatever else installed. There's a ruby interpreter in the OS already, and a lot of the prominent people in the RoR community are OSX users.

    I can't RTFA to know what they've actually done, but why wouldn't they support RoR? In spite of not finding the meaning of life, solving world hunger, or finding hot women for me, it's a pretty good tool. Something can be useful without solving every single problem, you know.

  4. Re:RoR bandwagon? by mblase · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you have concrete links and facts to support your observation?

    This is Slashdot. What do YOU think?

  5. Re:I wish MS would come out with something like th by soft_guy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I use both XCode and Visual Studio. I much prefer XCode and Interface Builder. There are also a lot of other very nice tools that Apple bundles for free. They are nicer to use than what Microsoft gives you, plus there are a lot of things that you get for free on Apple that you would have to buy third party on Windows such as the coverage tool (gcov) and the profiler (Shark). So, yes, Apple's tools ARE as nice as they appear to be.

    Unfortunately, today I have to use Visual Studio and I'm trying to figure out how to get my program to run in a Release build. It runs OK in Debug, but for whatever reason I'm getting an error dialog about not having a manifest file to load the C++ runtime DLL (?). I wish I could use XCode to write Windows apps. Or alternatively that our Windows users would just all buy Macs.

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  6. Re:Why do people pay for this stuff? by 2nd+Post! · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the jump from 10.4 to 10.5 you get:
    You get built in backup and restore software
    You get automatic backup functionality
    You get virtual desktops
    You get built in remote presentation and remote control software
    You get new Widgets plus the ability to turn any webpage into a widget
    You get a new mail program with increased planning functionality
    New group management functionality in Mail and in iCal

    Under the hood you get:
    New animation libraries
    New 64 bit CPU optimizations
    New resolution independent ui

    You pay for this stuff because you find it useful.

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