DMCA for Canada ? Act now !

I have got a letter from Online Rights Canada. I believe that what is about to hapen, may have pretty deep implications down the stream. Minimum thing I can do is try to help spreading the word. Here is the message: Dear Online Rights Canada Supporter, We understand that the government will imminently introduce legislation to amend the Copyright Act - and it intends to push it through quickly. We at Online Rights Canada wanted to let you know what was ahead in the next few weeks, and what you can do to protect Canada from a new DMCA.

Mac Gems: VisualHub

I had this discussion with a friend where we both found out that there is surprising amount of very useful little apps and tools in Mac's software world that people use on daily basis and which are worth of spreading word about. Here is first of the programs I did not know about few months ago - and today I barely can imagine working without them. VisualHUB is simple but very powerful video convertor for Mac.

Quote of the day

I've been writing a lot of code for the past 6 months. I have to admit, it is a welcome change from Word documents and PowerPoint presentations. Java, unlike text and graphics has a clearer definition of correct and finished. From Software Is A Craft by Dan Pritchett

Unit testing debt

I had the pleasure to listen very interesting podcast where Scott Hanselman and Quetzal Bradley discussed unit testing named "Testing after Unit Tests". To increase the Google Karma of the information discussed I have decided to rehash and sum up few main ideas of this discussion. Quetzal introduced the idea of "negative coverage" - meaning that if you have 88 % test coverage, you should not see this as something positive you have achieved, but as something missing (you miss 12 % of completion) - thus the title of this post.

Fix for iDVD 08 crash after the start

Today I tried for the first time the iDVD 08 with intention to create DVD version of the screencast - just to find out that the application dies right after the start. From the error report (thanks for that) the problem was in missing dependency Oxygene framework - a module similar to Windows DLL. Here is the error message: [sourcecode language='xml'] Link (dyld) error: Library not loaded: @executable_path/../Frameworks/Oxygene.framework/Versions/A/Oxygene Referenced from: /Applications/iDVD.