T minus 17 hours
Sunday, April 20th, 2008And counting…
I will no longer be talking about Apple, Apple products, Apple technologies or technologies and standards as they related to Apple on this blog anymore, since I am now an Apple employee.
I will not be removing previous entries however, since they were written and published in the past.
Blake has decided to move to Microsoft (http://yamacdev.blogspot.com/2008/04/resistance-is-futile.html). I understand his choice, after all C# has none of that square bracket non-sense. I just can’t understand how someone can tolerate Seattle after living in the bay area.
Brad Wardell published an insightful “op-ed” on the PC game market, particularly concerning how piracy has become the scapegoat to explain away disappointing sales, when the real reason is simply that if you make a product very few people can or want to buy, then you just won’t sell many of them.
From eastern Canada, I’d like to wish all my readers, however few or many you may be, a happy new year. This will be quite a big one for me, with both my graduation in software engineering and my humble beginnings at Apple, Inc. I hope also it will mark the end of some of [...]
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 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 [...]
Late, I know. But here goes for a small look-back on 2006 and what I am up to.
Projects
I am rather unhappy about the progress of my personal projects, or rather lack thereof, for 2006. Although there has been a number of achievements, like figuring out the format of Riven’s special effect files, determining the padding [...]
Now migrating to Zohar Res Novae. Subversion and Trac are down and should be back up in a few hours.
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.