My assertion that the iPhone license phrase "Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine" can only mean zero code generation has been questioned. Here's why I stand by that assessment (and consider the clause beyond the pale).

Let …

MMT: Exploiting Fine-Grained Parallelism in Dynamic Memory Management, Tiware et al. is worth reading if you are interested in systems-level performance programming. If you work in a managed environment, the briefly described lockless protocol for request-reply queues is worth noting.

This paper describes the use of a "Memory Management Thread …

These are the new clauses:

• Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine

I'm tempted to say that the clause is absurd and to talk about metaprogramming with C++ templates or JavaScript prototypes, but the fact is that it's …

The most intriguing part of this Popular Science article on the creation of the iPad app "The Elements" is the all-too-brief mention of the creation of a higher-level Mathematica program to generate the pages:

In about 7 of the precious 60 available days, I was able to create from scratch …

In certain circles, whatever interesting things there were in Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 unveiling today were overshadowed by some new language in the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement:

3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call …

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"Midori" is an operating system project being incubated at Microsoft. A while ago, SD Times acquired some internal specs on Midori, and published this series of articles. Now, in a follow-up article, we talk about how it appears that Midori does or does not fit with Microsoft technologies beginning to …

Apple will be the market leader in slate form-factor computers in, oh, another day or two. There are already more applications written specifically for the iPad than have been written specifically for the Tablet PC in 8 years -- by at least one order of magnitude.

Although I'm dubious about the …