In an article on O'Reilly's Macintosh Development Center web site details a method for getting Python and Objective-C to inter-operate directly.

I've been doing some pretty serious python work as of late and have recently had the need to parse some XML. To my delight, I looked into the /usr/lib/python2.2 directory (included with OSX) and found that the xml directory is in there... cool, I thought, they've included …

For those of us who have the occasional need to add Python pieces to our systems, there is a small problem with the Makefile that comes with OS X 10.2. In particular, there is an unnecessary '-arch i386' in the targets line immediately preceding the '-arch ppc' (which is …

A number of sites have pointers to this internal memo1 allegedly from Sun Microsystems and posted on InternalMemos.com2. The gist of the memo is that more resources need to be committed within Sun to make sure that the development efforts necessary are spent on Java and that …

I had to post the following quote from this week's Perl.com's This week in Perl 6 report: "Dan reported that examples/assembly/mops_p.pasm was running slower with JIT optimization than without under OSX, which doesn't seem right. Daniel Grunblatt pointed out that JIT cores that don't optimize …

In an article in InfoWorld, the reporter covers a debate between Sun Microsystems and Microsoft officials over the relative merits of each other's next generation programming tools. Read more for some background... .Net Microsoft's .Net architecture is based on the use of a Common Runtime Library (referred to as the …

Sun Micro systems has a good article on their site about bringing Java applications to the Mac under OS X.