January 2005 - apple-list - University of Manitoba Mailing Lists

FYI: Apple online seminars: Application Performance and High Performance Computing Solutions
by billing 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

In March, Apple is giving two online seminars (you may need to install a small application to participate if you have not been part of one of these seminars in the past). More details and registration information can be found at the URL given. Internet Mar 10, 2005 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM LIVE WEBCAST: Maximizing Mac OS X Application Performance For General Audiences In this webcast, you'll learn the basics of optimization, including how and why every developer should turn a critical eye to the code they've just written. For more details: http://seminars.apple.com/goToEvent.html?id=32726&s=300 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Mar 29, 2005 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM LIVE WEBCAST: Third-party HPC Solutions for Mac OS X For General Audiences Apple will be joined by representatives from companies who develop their software or hardware for the platform to talk about their products. For more details: http://seminars.apple.com/goToEvent.html?id=32748&s=300 Wayne

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Apple Webcast TODAY - Digital Academic Television Network
by Doug Hamilton 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

Hi Everyone: Sorry for the short notice. The Mac OS X Labs group (now Mac Enterprise) sponsored by Apple Computer Inc. is having a webcast today: **http://macenterprise.org/content/blogcategory/97/125/** **** **This webcast will discuss the implementation of the **University of Wisconsin-Madison DATN (Digital Academic Television Network), pronounced "Dayton". Regards, Doug

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INTEREST: dipping into Tiger... Now.
by billing 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

Apple's "Developer Connection" site has a few articles which give some good insight into some of the upcoming new technology to be included with Tiger. Mac OS X v.10.4 Tiger Overview: New features, APIs, and frameworks. Working with Spotlight: Powerful search technologies available to developers. Developing Dashboard Widgets: Powerful mini-applications that are quick and easy to develop. Developing 64-bit Applications: Mac OS X Tiger breaks the limitations of 32-bit computing. Working with Automator: Extend the value of your application with Automator Actions and Workflows. For example, here's a bit of the "Dashboard" documentation that talk about how to construct Dashboard's Widget's: ============================ http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/dashboard.html What's Inside a Widget? At its simplest, a Widget is simply a web page that is displayed in the Dashboard rather than in a browser, such as Safari. A Widget is contained on disk in a bundle—a directory that groups all the needed resources for the Widget together in one place. Widget bundles are named with the .wdgt extension. Like any other bundle, a Widget's bundle is managed by the Finder as a single entity. A basic Widget contains the following files: ▪ A main HTML file defining the user-interface for the Widget. ▪ A default background image in PNG format that can be displayed by Dashboard while it loads the Widget. The PNG format is used because of its excellent support for alpha channel transparency. ▪ A property list file named Info.plist that contains a Widget's identifier, name, version information, size, and the main HTML page as well as other optional information used by Dashboard. • Develop widgets using industry-standard web technologies—HTML, JavaScript, and CSS • Create a widget using only a text editor and browser, such as TextEdit and Safari ================= ...another example comes from the "Automator" documentation: ======================== http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/automator.html Using Automator Automator comes preloaded with a large library of Actions. These Actions expose functionality built into the operating system, such as finding files with Spotlight, or the various applications that ship with the system, such as iPhoto, Mail, and iCal. There are also Actions that let you write shell scripts and AppleScripts. You can use these Actions to rename a group of files, create a new event in an iCal calendar, or to resize an image. This library of Actions is accessed and organized on the left hand side of the Automator window. To assemble a Workflow from a set of Actions, simply drag-and-drop the Actions from the library into the sequence in which you want them to run. Each Action in the Workflow corresponds to an individual step that you would need to perform manually. Each Action comes with a small GUI panel that lets you tweak its options and settings. Automator shows these panels connected, along with the types of data that are flowing from one Action to another.

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FYI: Infoworld says Apple "Best Server HW" and "Best OS" in 2004
by billing 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Happy New Year, all. Wayne ...from: http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/12/30/01FEtoyplats_1.html?s=feature Innovation trumps commoditization Worthwhile platform and architecture choices abound By Tom Yager December 30, 2004 In 2004, we started seeing the products of engineering that went on underground during the recession. Whereas the market as a whole is doing the wait-and-see, early adopters are partying their butts off over true competition in operating systems and CPU architectures, the long-delayed delivery of the Java promise, and the essential paradigm shift from fast processors to fast throughput. Much of the technology that vendors were forced to put in the deep freeze has thawed. In 2005, the rest of IT will see why those forward-looking geeks (present company included) are so giddy. First, Sun rescued Java by becoming honestly and deeply engaged with the grassroots Java developer community. The impact of the fulfillment of the Java promise extends well beyond open source and academia. Oracle (Profile, Products, Articles) stands out as an example: The vendor now offers its entire commercial Java product line for free download. Oracle permits license-free use of its software for development and testing. You pay only when you deploy, and then only when you deploy to an Oracle-branded server. Expect to see more of the “develop now, pay later” approach to platform promotion in 2005. PLATFORMS: BEST SERVER HARDWARE Apple Xserve G5: Tightly integrated hardware/OS combo raises the bar for other server makers BEST BLADE SYSTEM HP Consolidated Client Infrastructure: Combines popular management tools with unrivaled reliability and scalability BEST OPERATING SYSTEM Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther): Continues to set the standard for simplicity and ease-of-use among 64-bit-capable OSes BEST VIRTUAL SERVER VMware ESX Server 2.1.1: Enables an extraordinary array of high-availability services and management capabilities [...]

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