Monthly Archives: June 2007

Congratulations Panic and Blizzard!

The Apple Design Awards reward applications that stand out, that define the Mac OS X experience and that make the Mac the best operating system by virtue of the quality of the applications that run on it. I would like to congratulate Panic for winning Best Mac OS X User Experience with Coda and Blizzard for Best Game with World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. Both of these applications are outstanding at what they do, push the limits of Mac OS X technologies and drive us at Apple to continually improve Mac OS X.

Of course Blizzard is closer to my heart, so I invite Mac users that play and enjoy Blizzard games to congratulate them for their exceptional work. Blizzard has kept Mac gaming alive through the difficult years and are now driving the development of OpenGL, not only on Mac OS X by constantly pushing the stack to its limits and helping us improve OpenGL, but also by actively participating in the OpenGL ARB. They have my utmost respect and they totally deserve this award. Congratulations again.

Check out all the winners at the Apple Design Awards 2007 page.

MPQKit 1.0b2 (WWDC 07 edition)

MPQKit 1.0b2 contains an astounding amount of bug fixes and improvements. The major highlights include quad architecture support (PowerPC, i386, PowerPC 64 and EM64T), a new strong digital signature public key for Starcraft maps and a much better mechanism to represent files pending addition.

Download MPQKit 1.0b2. More information on the project is available on the MPQKit project page and on the MPQKit development wiki.

Oh by the way…

The reason this blog hasn’t been updated for a while is because I got an internship at Apple :) . A lot of stuff had to be prepared, a lot of paperwork had to be filled in, but now that things have settled down (yeah right…), I’ll try to bring /dev/klog up to speed.

For those interested, I have a small site dedicated to my experience at Apple. It’s mostly going to be pictures of various events, but may also contain short stories or other tidbits. Eventually it will be merged into this blog, but right now I’m using the easy iPhoto -> iWeb -> .Mac workflow.