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- berad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+43Attending WWDC, I'm precluded by NDA to share any information, but I will absolutely say that what the keynote showed merely scratches the surface of the power of Leopard: chiefly being some extraordinary tools that they are providing developers like me tools that will make our software look and function incredibly well. I've never been more excited about the Apple platform as I am right now.
- antitab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31 * Leopard will feature resolution-independent user interface and there are several functions to get the current scaling factor and apply it to pixel measurements.
* Automator includes a new user interface and allows things such as action recording, workflow variables and embedding workflows in other applications.
* Time Machine has an API that allows developers to exclude unimportant files from a backup set which improves backup performance and reduces space needed for a backup.
* A new Calendar Store framework allows developers access to calendar, event and task information from iCal to use in their applications or to add new events or tasks
* Text engine improvements include a systemwide grammar checking facility, smart quote support, automatic link detection and support for copying and pasting multiple selections.
These are really great! Some of this definitely shouldn't have been left out of the keynote! - deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28People actually care about Apple products.
- LaughingMan11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25Burmask : the Mac Pro is cheaper than a comparable Dell Workstation.
- thegreyfox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Wow. that links to a windows dev site. Didn't see that coming.
- gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Quoting thegreyfox's post:
"Wow. that links to a windows dev site. Didn't see that coming." - inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20> there is a sub section for Apple and Linux but not Mircosoft
Right and that's so unfair because it's so hard to find news and information about Microsoft. You poor 95% of the market, you. Are all of us Linux and Mac users picking on you guys, making you feel marginalized? For shame... - berndtj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Your mac mini has a shot right now of serving web pages. If you turn on personal web sharing (sharing preferences) you will be running an apache 1.x web server. Just type "http://localhost" to see what I mean. Want to run 2.x, just download the source and compile, it works right out of the box.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12That's one of the refreshing things about the OS X platform. Innovations and technology developed for use in the various Apple applications or in the OS are quickly made available to 3rd party developers as public Cocoa APIs, whether its fancy new UI models or underlying technology like spelling and grammar checking, or this "Latent Semantic Mapping" used by Mail's spam filter.
Contrast that with Microsoft, where the most interesting UI and technology developed by the various applications teams (the MS Office team, in particular) are kept under tight wraps, leaving 3rd-party developers to implement hackneyed imitations on their own. - egrefen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I'm not very tech-savvy (unfortunately) when it comes to the sort of things discussed in this article, but I can spot a few things which will come in handy to the average user here, namely system-wide grammar checking (system-wide spelling check, and now dictionary were certainly OS X's fortes, but now this... wow). Apple never ceases to amaze.
- jameschho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"Ruby scripting to access (to) Mac OS X specific APIs."
Hello ruby, buh-bye applescript! W00t! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Since when could developers not take their apps full screen. All applications that need to go full screen, do.
- the_snitch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12So now developers can make any app full screen (including slideshows views), lets hope Apple FINALLY allows full screen videos in quicktime non-pro. I know there are easy hacks to get around this, but come on, its fricken 2006! iTunes can play it's little videos full screen for christ's sake.
- antitab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10There are some BIG advantages to total resolution-independence. For instance, it makes super-high res displays practical, meaning incredibly smooth and detailed graphics. Likewise, imagine the current cmd-opt-+, except instead of a blurry image-zoom, the entire interface scales yielding a true magnification. This, combined with Core Animation and Quartz 2D Extreme, open up a world of potential for Leopard's user experience.
- gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9You just won the digg.
- meatmcguffin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Although the time machine interface demo, the spaces demo and the speech synthesiser demo were all awesome, the best bit of the keynote was easily at 1:20 - The Schillercoaster
- fbriggs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9A few more things I found quite interesting:
* Carbon now allows Cocoa views to be embedded into the application.
--- now maybe my carbon C++ game engine can use some neato cocoa stuff
* The iChat framework allows a developer to add shared content to an active iChat session, for example a video, an image slideshow or even an online multiplayer game.
-- The implications of this are thousands of collaborative apps / games that can easily be joined / launched over iChat
* A new framework is included for publishing and subscribing to RSS and Atom feeds, including complete RSS parsing and generation. Local feeds can be shared over Bonjour zero-configuration sharing and discovery.
-- me and a team of 3 other people spent about 8 months putting a system to aggregate, text classify and publish publish rss news. i hate to think how easy our project would have been if we had this + the latent semantic mapping stuff (particularly since we implement latent semantic indexing anyway!)
This is some seriosly powerful stuff. Amazing applications will ensue! - einsteindesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9On a related note, if you haven't watched the Keynote, you must. There is an astonishing demonstration of Leopard's speech synthesizer at about 54 minutes in.
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/aug_2006/event/index.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Compile from source? How barbaric.
Install it using Darwin Ports instead.
http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ports/?by=name&substr=apache - rebz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9apache 2.0? yesssssss. maybe my mac mini has a shot at serving some web pages after all!
- frunder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I am very excited about all the hooks and new frameworks that will be part of Leopard. This is exactly the kind of thing that gets a broad spectrum of developers motivated to develop for OS X.
- fbriggs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6* Leopard also gives developers access to a "Latent Semantic Mapping" framework, which is the basis for spam protection in Mail. It allows you to analyze text and train the engine to restrict items with specific content (like spam e-mail for example).
If this is true and their implementation is fast, then this is something to be excited about: its top notch AI, built into the OS and available to developers!!!
Latent Semantic Indexing is a technique used in text classification and information retrevial that relies on the crunchy maths of singular value decompositions and principle component analysis. LSM is a generalization of LSI, according to this page: http://www.icassp2006.org/Tutorial_06.asp
Here is paper with more info on LSM:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/79/32367/01511825.pdf?isnumber=&arnumber=1511825 - illusionfxp, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Why has this not been promoted to the front page?
- pygmalion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5For a self-contained, effortless solution, have a look at MAMP [1] or XAMP [2]. Both contain Apache 2 and PHP 4, 5 as well as MySQL and a ton of common modules and extensions. Highly recommended.
[1] http://www.mamp.info/
[2] http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-macosx.html - mateo60, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Its on the front page now.
- iamdw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"AeroXperience - Windows Vista Development Community".
surprised not many people have commented on that. Very strange exclusive Leopard dev info is given to a Vista dev site... how's that for ironic? - omarqaz7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4These are not the "Top Secret" features. Those features were left out of the Leopard preview. I heard some of these on the Keynote, and even more on the Leopard preview website.
- vineetb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Good stuff for developers - Objective C 2.0 - automatic garbage collection, properties - auto generated getters & setters, foreach. XCode & IB 3.0 as well.
- zodieman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Any news on ZFS or a new Finder? I suspect those might fall under the "Top Secret" category...
- newbill123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Now I can now see why Apple wants to delay Leopard until Spring 2007. It's not just to make sure they get all the kinks out of their stuff, it's to make sure that Developers get their hands on the tools now and have almost a year to work with the new tech and API's will make for a very rich, compelling third party software landscape. It hopefully won't be like Tiger or Panther or even Jaguar where the third party software trickles out three months later, if at all. I think the hardest thing for developers though will be to wait until Leopard launches. :-)
- tunaranch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3All the MS news you need, right here: http://search.cert.org/query.html?col=certadv&col=incnotes&col=research&col=techtips&col=trandedu&col=vulnotes&col=xtracert&qt=microsoft&charset=iso-8859-1
:D - vonnie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It wouldn't make sense to put the 'supersecret close to the vest' features on the current leopard preview. Microsoft has access to it because of their mac business unit. Also remember that Steve was talking to the developers at WWDC when he said 'super secret'.
- m00dy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4i love my mac
- frunder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think that version 2.0 is crucial for cementing Objective C's place in modern software development. Sure, a lot of good software has been developed without automatic garbage collection but it will enable more software to be developed by a lot more people. Unburdening the programmer from such a mundane task as counting pointers will ease the development cycle.
I agree that it will take time for 2.0 to gain traction but that will be due to Tiger, Panther and earlier versions of the OS hanging around.
An honest question, how many people outside of Apple/Cocoa developers actually use Objective C? - rebz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have the personal web server running currently, and I already installed the UB distro of mysql and php. I was having a hard time getting apache2 to compile correctly so that the php distro (theres only one currently) would work correctly with it. One thing I didn't try doing was compiling both apache and php. As for xammp, I've tried that, but I was hoping to do a more production-ish setup, rather than a very developmental-oriented one.
Thanks for the replies, guys, I'll check out the links. - gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The one who posted it was recruited as a newsposter because we're trying to expand a bit. I think he got us off on a good footing :)
- newbill123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I guess this will be evidence that Redmond (or Redmond supporters) really are paying attention to Leopard.
- malliemcg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Time machine screamed ZFS to me the first time I read about it, but now I get the feeling it might just be some form of shadow copy.
- cphuntington97, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3You know your salary?
Don't ask for so much of it this year. Seriously, just tell your boss, "it's 2006, why don't you cut back my wages by $30?"
But you probably won't. You probably like every last dime you earn.
So does Apple.
People are always looking for a "deal," a feel good freebie; but I don't think $30 is going to hold anyone back from buying a Mac. - spunkmyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can anyone confirm if the upcoming Leopard Server will include a radius server?
I read a blurb somewhere that states Radius support for airport with Open Directory authentication. - vitaboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2
Ahh, what a difference having access to the developer preview CDs makes vs. getting all your information from the keynote webcast, eh Mr. Thurott! :-P - gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I'm willing to bet that the number of diggs needed depends on the time of day.
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- MitchCumstein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To echo what astromash said. Apple eats their own dog food. Microsoft spends an amazing amount of effort developing new technologies like .NET while they continue to develop the majority of their applications using tired old win32. This creates the two-class system of Windows development - those that develop "real" applications using c++/win32, and the unwashed masses that use .NET. Don't get me wrong, I think .NET is one of the best things to come out of MS in a long time but it's hard to take it seriously if they don't.
- rubeus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yea I know, that's awesome. That totally got me hot when I read that on www.aeroxp.org. {I know I'll get hell for saying that but NLU is my thang.} It's things like this Latent Semantic Mapping Framework that make me wonder what else is lurking behind the corner next spring. There are many others great uses for this LSM Framework, you could train it to classify messages or other texts on a variety of different things, I hope it's a good implementation too or atleast with a few nice options for customizations.
- 3Den, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1cphunting: he has a point. as a mac switcher a few years ago, aboiut the only thing really disappointing was that the built-in much-hyped video player that came with my rather expensive mac would not play full-screen video.. that's just nonsense.
- magma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Copying and pasting of multiple selections is a handy feature, but I wish they would implement the gpm-like functionality where selected text is automatically inserted into the "selection" buffer and can be pasted by clicking the middle button.
- dcharti, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I sadly don't have any links, but I can at least also toss in a vote that you aren't crazy; I think I've heard about Radius coming in Leopard too.
- TinFoil209, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That does make a lot of sense. Just like new gaming consoles waiting so they can have their ready on launch day titles to buy at the same time. Nintendo should think about this for Mario Galaxy, but with the Wii and Leopard.. I WANT IT NOW!
- juice09, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I read that too. It sounded to me like Open Directory will have direct support for RADIUS authentication. OpenLDAP is the software behind Open Directory. RADIUS support may be upcoming in a future release of OpenLDAP.
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