The following is quoted from Gamasutra’s Paris GDC interview with Rob Pardo:
Finally, Jamil asked an extremely relevant question, given the state of the web game market - is it possible to get an ‘AAA game experience’ through the web interface?
Pardo was blunt: “I dunno, not until Microsoft, Intel, and Apple get their shit together. There’s [...]

Firefox 3 is annoyingly picky about SSL certificates, which has been an issue for people trying to access my Trac wiki or Subversion repository. I finally had enough and decided to nail the problem. So here are clear steps for generating SSL certificates that will make Firefox 3 happy. I will be using Leopard’s [...]

Update: I initially had stated that LLVM was the future of Apple compiler technologies. This is the case in-so-far as I believe LLVM is the future of the gcc compiler backend. This is a personal blog and I’m obviously not speaking for anyone but myself.
While watching the iPhone SDK announcement video, I noticed some odd things [...]

Apparently, a lot of people wanted the iPhone SDK, and for the first time that I can remember in the past 10 years, developer.apple.com died. I think it’s mostly a good thing, but it sure is making programming a little bit more tedious this evening. At least there’s the built-in documentation.

CUDA is NVIDIA’s architecture and API for GPGPU – general purpose GPU programming. The fact is, those graphic cards are hugely powerful parallel computing units, and everyone stands to benefit by exploiting them to do far more than just outputting images to a screen.
Well today, NVIDIA made CUDA available for Mac OS X. This is [...]

Omni released the first public beta of OmniGraffle Pro today. Version 5 boasts an impressive list of new features and refinements, such as GraphViz powered diagram layout, tables, bezier curves and better Visio and PDF import and export.
Give it a try. As far as I’m concerned, my only deception so far is not being able [...]

So the outdated APE and Leopard issue has promoted the idea that it leads to a “Leopard BSOD”. While I understand the potential confusion, please remember that a BSOD is a full fledged kernel panic when referring to Window’s famous blue screen. The blue you see when Leopard boots is actually drawn by the window [...]

Just a quick word on what is currently going on.

My internship at Apple is soon coming to an end. It was an absolutely fantastic experience, which I will surely talk about some more in future entries, NDA permitting :p
There will be a new MPQKit release sometime by the end of August. It will likely be [...]

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 [...]

Let’s fix that, shall we?*Ahem* This is Jean-Francois Roy, live from Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. Tonight we have a special program, with exciting news about my various projects, and more!Airport?That’s right, I am leaving tomorrow today for beautiful San Francisco to assist Apple’s yearly Worldwide Developers Conference. In short, this is the most exciting week of the year for all Mac developers, with probably over 3000 of us converging on Moscone West convention center for sessions, labs, thematic lunches and evening fun in downtown clubs.I thought it would be entertaining to post some pictures of where I currently am.