Mon 14th Jul 2008
Posted late in the morning, filed under
Asides ,
MacOS X ,
Programming.
You can’t have a class with the name “Availability” in a project built with XCode 3.1.
You can with XCode 3.0, but CFNetwork, and I assume a heap of other classes use a class called “Availability” to define if objects are available in a particular version of the OS.
Mon 14th Jul 2008
Posted mid-morning, filed under
Rants and Raves ,
Transport.
A couple of weeks ago, there was a puff piece in the local newspaper about a guy and his wife (and teenaged daughter) don’t drive, don’t even have a car. They catch public transport everywhere, and it works for them.
Adelaide is a funny place. It’s not really densely enough populated to have a first-class transit system, and because it isn’t really that good, not many people use it. This is possibly also in part due to how easy it is to drive everywhere in Adelaide, including into the CBD.
I’m a big fan of public transport, it just isn’t working that well here right now.
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