http://dave.srednal.com Dave's thoughts (such as they are) Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:41:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just got a new MacBook Pro yesterday. I "needed" a new machine because my old one is a Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo) and wouldn't run the Java 6 preview. And my son "needed" my old MacBook Pro for college. Yea, that's it. Anyway, I turned ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/35 As I reported earlier, I had a severe problem with Time Machine on my MacBook Pro. As I experimented with it, I realized it was probably related to another problem I have been living with ever since I got the machine. The previous problem occurred when I was running a ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/34 My oldest son, Paul, had his Board of Review last night, and is now an Eagle Scout. I am so proud of him, obviously. After the board was finished with their deliberations, they took a moment for each member to share some of their observations about Paul. And ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/33 Someone pointed out to me that some of my code sections were unreadable in Internet Explorer. They looked like this: Hey! where's the text? The rest of us (at least Firefox and Safari) were seeing something more like this: Much better, but what's going on? I quote code in a <pre ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/31 Yesterday, I decided it was time to move on. I deleted my bootable Tiger backup and turned on Time Machine. I like the fact that it promises to do hourly/daily/weekly incremental backups, and the Time Machine application, while heavy on the cheese, is a pretty nice way to ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/22 I've had Leopard installed for several days now, and mostly it is good. Here are some delights and gripes and bugs and other thoughts. Mail Mail still doesn't obey the Hide checkbox when it is started at login. Just what is so hard about this? I find this really ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/20 So, here we are. We have found lots of memory leaks, and drastically improved the redeploy experience for WLP 10.2 (and the fixes are being backported to previous releases). However, this is not the first time we've been here. But it is hopefully the last. We are putting in place ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/17 I finally got around to upgrading my MacBook Pro to Leopard. I generally take the opportunity of an OS upgrade to clean house, and I did it this time with Leopard again. So I made good backups, then did a clean install (not an upgrade). I then spend a ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/16 In this post is a dump of most of the leaks that we have found and plugged for our upcoming 10.2 release. I present it here not so you can see exactly what was leaking or whatever, but rather to give me a format where I can make some ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/15 Another common source of leaks we found was related to the use of ThreadLocal. A ThreadLocal is a way to attach some data to a Thread, so you can get at it later. They are really useful for a couple of cases. First, you can cache some value (presumably ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/14