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 Certificate Assistant for most of the certificate work, with a bit of openssl at the end. The primary source of information I used to determine the requirements for SSL server certificates and signing certificates up in the chain is Mozilla’s All About Certificate Extensions technote.
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 in my beloved Xcode. Some UI elements were looking different. And indeed, the iPhone SDK includes a new version of Xcode (and many other dev tools) which may be of interest for anyone doing Mac OS X development. Some of the highlights:
- Brand-new “New Project” and “New File” dialogs. I really like them, and the new templates make more sense.
- Multi-platform support. Each platform can provide its own set of tools and SDKs. This was obviously added to support the iPhone. So the big picture now is Platforms > SDKs > Architectures.
- Preview of gcc-4.2 and llvm-gcc-4.2. I am really excited to check this two out, particularly the LLVM powered compiler, which brings to Mac OS X developers modern link-time optimization that Microsoft Visual Studio and Intel CC customers have enjoyed for many years now. LLVM is the future of gcc compiler technologies, and it’s great to start seeing that get out into a lot of people’s hands.
- Improved support for conditional build settings (AKA per-architecture build settings).
I hope to see the final version of Xcode 3.1 to be released at this year’s WWDC, if not some manner of new beta release.
CUDA for Mac OS X
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Feb 132008
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 a sign that times are changing for Apple when they start to make such a kind of inroad. And of course, everyone in the (probably small) Mac HPC business and in the scientific community is probably very happy about this.
So if you own NVIDIA hardware, go grab it and give it a try!
Nov 302007
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 to buy a license already.