They can also customize, optimize, and upgrade their system configurations using RacePoint Blueprint without writing code. Additionally, RacePoint Blueprint will enable dealers to custom build screens ...

With Office 2008 on the horizon, Microsoft has recently begun to push AppleScript as an alternative automation technology to Visual Basic macros in the Office applications. Moving forward, Visual ...

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Even in the Linux world, where cluster and grid computing are well established, there is often confusion about how to distinguish a grid from a cluster. Let's look at characteristics of each. Grid ...

Ironically, the main performance bottleneck for game programmers today - as ten years ago - is getting pixels up on the screen. With the advent of 100 MHz bus speeds, built-in hardware support for ...

CVS, Subversion, and Git let several users work the same project. Users can contribute their changes and avoid getting in each other's way. They can retrace their steps if they make a mistake. They ...

For the past couple of columns, we have discussed various ways to store and access data using AppleScript. One column provided an introduction to Database Events, a background application in Mac OS X ...

Software is abstract and non-tactile by its very nature. It can be difficult to see what it is doing and why it may be misbehaving. To get a better view of software, we often use tools like gdb, leaks ...

Connections is a new industry newsletter in the MacInTouch style that covers issues related to networking on the Mac. Connections and MacTutor have agreed to promote each other as "sister" ...

Apple has been granted several patents by the US Patent & Trademark Office. Following is a summary of each. Patent number 8086604 is for an universal interface for retrieval of information in a ...

The Apple “Hierarchical File System” is a major advance in Macintosh technology. From the programmer's standpoint, HFS is an an extension to the current file manager. Many calls are the same, some ...

Warning: These programs use the alternate screen buffer, an area of memory that is also used by the Mac Plus RAM cache. As a result, when the program exits, Finder information previously in the cache ...