two floors records

Pony Friends is released on Nintendo DS, big shout to all at Tantalus for getting this done. I saw it in the local store today, it’s always a nice feeling to see your work on the shelf.

A very good site of useful C++ code, included FFTReal, BLIT oscillators and Stopwatch

Laurent de Soras

Some nice plug-ins and a developer tools, must check them out

Tegaon Audio::Main

By Charles Petzold (the brilliant author of Programming Windows)

Does Visual Studio Rot The Mind?

I do most of my professional programming from within the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE, which of course is for Windows. On the Mac there is XCode. But the keybindings are hardwired into me after years of Windows (ab)use. Here are some solutions.

Cocoa Text System - how to configure the system key bindings, including remapping to Windows
TextMate - nice looking text editor €39
TextWrangler - free cut down version of BBEdit
Smultron - free editor
Aquamacs - Aqua-fied Emacs

Finally a good site on how to enter international characters

International Computing Setup

The art of live coding reaches Wired magazine and contains a good selection of links:

Wired: Real DJs Code Live

The NT file system (NTFS) includes support for symbolic links, just like Unix. The problems is Windows Explorer doesn’t provide any user interface to this feature. Why this is only Microsoft know. So, this little tool solves that problem: NTFS Link

This looks like an interesting defect tracking solution and by an Australian company:

Atlassian JIRA

Lua is an interesting little language that is straightforward to embed into your application as a scripting language. Here’s an good overview

Lua

There! That singular group over there! Can you see them?

Yes! They all are there, in the landscape of software development practice, a singular group of software development practitioners, from past, present and future of this line of work

I can see them; they are getting feedback and learning a lot! …as always.

Reflections on software design profession – introductory thoughts