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When the hell are they going to repair or replace Prospect street ???????????????
This was posted Sunday, February 17, 2013, more than one year ago. Yet, this article is continuously on the week's more read list. Perhaps Northampton's current Police News deserves a more prominent space on the website. I always look for police news, arrests, and District Court news, but can't always find it. Obviously, there is an interest from other readers in the same sort of information.
snow ? foucher driving ? now that's news
Sorry bout that! I opened this because it was on your Popular index at #2. It now is on as #1 - I must not be the only person thinking it was recent news.
Novio, this is a police log from February.
James Lowe, Web editor
...aaaaannnnddd, still getting featured link status.
Interesting - I didn't realize that it snowed Thursday (last entry stated that a car crashed into a snowbank)?
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Ten Things I Dig About Xcodeby James Duncan Davidson, author of the upcoming Running Mac OS X Panther
Following in the footsteps of the Ten Things I Dig About Panther article that was published on October 10, and to celebrate the public release of Mac OS X today, I've decided to focus in on the eleventh item from that list, the revamped IDE, called Xcode. There's a lot to like about Xcode, and the rest of the toolset now known as the Xcode Tools.
As with the last article about Panther, this is by no means an exhaustive feature-based review. To be honest, it's going to take a bit of time to pull together a really good review of the new Xcode IDE and to explore all of its capabilities. But, in the short amount of time that I've played with Xcode so far, these are the things that I've found myself really digging about it.
1. New User Interface: The first and most obvious thing you'll notice about the new Xcode IDE is that the Project Builder interface of old has been totally replaced with a new and much more polished UI. The old Project Builder interface was functional--good enough for day-to-day work, but evidently was not something that Apple was happy with. So they brought in their UI experts--the same ones that worked on the new Finder and iTunes--and rethought how the IDE should go together. The result is something that just plain feels a lot more polished and honed.
2. Smart Lists: The new UI is more than just window dressing. The Xcode team is out to make sure that you can drill down to just the code that you want to focus on. Think about how Smart Playlists work in iTunes. Now, apply that to an IDE and you have an idea of how these lists work. For example, if you click on a target in Xcode, you'll just see the files related to that target. It's a small thing conceptually, but in large projects with lots of targets, it's quite handy to drill down to just the code that you are interested in at the moment.
3. Symbol Browsing: So far, my favorite mode of working with code in Xcode isn't a bullet-point item on Apple's web site, but it should be. It's the Project Symbols view--instead of navigating your project file by file, it allows you to take a look across all the symbols in your project--the classes, methods, functions, and variables that make up your application. In the short time that I've been playing with Xcode, I've used this feature more than any other to navigate through the source code in my projects.
4. Fast Search: Just like iTunes, the Xcode IDE sports a quick-find box in the toolbar that allows you to drill through the items in the main list. Combined with the smart lists, this will let you find anything you are looking for in a snap.
Second, the errors and warnings are flagged with icons in the gutter of the text editor. This indicates quickly what line an error is on while letting you just work with the code, without a lot of clutter in the way. Very elegant and nice.
6. Three Pane/One Window Use: Even though by default Xcode opens source code in separate editor window, you can activate the one feature I really liked about Project Builder: The ability to have a single window for navigating and editing your code. To enable this, simply hit the three-pane icon in the toolbar.
7. Documentation Viewer: Lucky seven and one of the best. Again, this isn't a feature that's been pushed on the Apple web site before the release of Panther, but it's one that I think is the biggest help of all--the ability to quickly and easily go through the Apple developer documentation. The documentation viewer sports a quick-find box in its toolbar (like Finder and iTunes and Mail and... you get the point) and it lets you blaze through the documentation in a flash. Before this feature I was a regular user of both Cocoa Browser and AppKiDo. Now, I find myself using the built-in documentation viewer all the time and prefer it over either of those two tools that I used to rely on so much. Both Cocoa Browser and AppKiDo have features that aren't in the Xcode documentation viewer, but the single ability to quick search through the documentation makes those features less critical to have.
8. Code Completion: Finally this useful, and long overdue, feature comes to the Apple developer tool suite. I've always been a fan of being able to save keystrokes, and the code-completion features in Xcode promise to help shave off a bit of time--as well as repeated trips to documentation to remember how to spell a particular method. There are a few key sequences you can use to activate code completion: Hit Control-. (period); Option-Escape; or F5 (or fn-F5 if you are on a PowerBook). These keystrokes will pop up a window from which you can pick the appropriate item. You can also turn on code completion full-time in the Navigation section of the Xcode Preferences. I'm sure that this will cause a slight performance hit on slower machines, but it seems to perform well on my PowerBook.
9. Predictive Compilation: I'm a big fan of letting the machine do as much work as possible in the background while I'm thinking about other things. Instead of making me wait on a compile, predictive compilation promises to speed up the process quite a bit. Instead of waiting for you to hit the build button, Xcode will go ahead and compile changes in the background--and then commit them to disk when you hit the build button. I haven't had the chance to exercise this feature with a large project, but so far, it seems to work as advertised.
10. Revamped /Developer/Applications Directory Organization: The /Developer/Applications directory was getting a bit crowded. In Jaguar with the developer tools, it was always a crapshoot whether you'd have to scroll in column view to find the Project Builder icon. Apple must have realized that 90 percent of the time, when you go to that directory, you want to launch Xcode, so they cleaned it up and moved the various accessory tools to their own subdirectories. Now just Xcode and Interface Builder applications appear in this directory.
Just like with the Panther article, it's too hard to limit myself to just ten items. So, here's one more...
11. Rendezvous-Enabled Distributed Builds: This one is probably the excuse that I'll use to go ahead and buy that dual G5 machine I've been lusting over. At MacHack this year (which was the weekend before WWDC), there were a few of us gathered around talking about our hacks. One guy had the idea of doing distributed compilation with Rendezvous. He didn't finish his hack, but just a few days later we saw the same idea demonstrated at WWDC in a demo of the axiom that great ideas show up in more than one place at once. It's nice to see Rendezvous being used for more than just chatting and music sharing (much as I use those two features all of the time). I foresee lots of interesting things in the future when it comes to Rendezvous and Xcode.
Mac OS X 10.3, widely known as Panther, is available from the Apple Store. Apple includes the developer tools with the operating system, so you can start working with Xcode right away.
There are so many other cool features that I could talk about here. Zero Link and Fix and Continue come to mind. But so far, these are the ten, 'er eleven, things that I've really been enjoying about using Xcode. It definitely represents a major shift in Apple's IDE and I think it will take people a little while to get used to this new tool. It's also different enough than Project Builder and other IDEs that it's going to take a few months to really start getting the hang of how to best utilize it, but there's some serious potential here and I'm really happy to see Apple investing the same kind of attention into the IDE that it put into iTunes, iChat, and the rest of the applications that ship with Mac OS X.
Of course, as great as the new Xcode is--and how far things have progressed since the last release of the developer tools--there is always more that could be done. There are many things that I would like to see in future versions. Here are a few of them:
The ability to build a distribution build directly into a package without having to use Package Maker externally. It should just be a one-click build command from within the IDE to make a complete, ready-to-ship binary.
The ability to define subprojects or declare dependencies on other projects. Sure, you can structure targets together for quite a bit of flexibility, but there are several bits and pieces of code that I reuse among many of my projects and I'd like to just declare a dependency on that project instead of either creating a target separately in each project or importing the code.
The ability to integrate unit testing tools into Xcode. Agile programming is all the rage these days--and for good reason. Test-first development has changed the way I create code. Currently, the existing tools have had a limited amount of integration with Project Builder. What I'd like to see is the ability to design unit tests alongside the code, and have the test errors show up in the "Errors and Warnings" list as well as in the editor gutters. There are a few ways this could be done, but Apple is probably going to have to expose a bit of functionality for the tools to plug in nicely.
However, I'm willing to wait a little bit for these features to hopefully come to the toolset. This release of Xcode is a welcome improvement and a big thumbs up goes out to the Apple Xcode team for all the hard work they've put into it.
James Duncan Davidson is a freelance author, software developer, and consultant focusing on Mac OS X, Java, XML, and open source technologies. He currently resides in San Francisco, California.
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welcome to the world of free software
2004-09-29 21:20:13 firstname.lastname@example.com [View]
where a 'review' is basically someone hyping a bunch of bullcaca and lying out of their ass. of course, if you ever point this out they will call you a satanic gates worshipping nazi who loves windows. no, you just hate crap software, and thats what most 'free software' (unix) is.
there are a few patterns you can notice about any review of ' free software'. the 'good' items are basically "this feature is a good idea and they have a good start on it" or "this feature is great, and as this is only an alpha version im sure it will be fixed". the 'bad' items are all things like horrible user interface, crashing, etc. the problem here is that unix people, and free software people in general, do not care. they dont care what you think of the UI. their attitude is to tell you to go use windows. now if you say it crashes, they will call you a moron and say you were using it wrong and say 'shrug' it never crashes for them, must be your configuration.
if you point out that other products have good features and dont crash, then they will tell you 'then go use those products, nobody is forcingg you to use this free software'.
if you try to point out that claiming 'this product has feature x' actually implies that the product has feature x, then the linux zealots (im sorry, unix, free software, they are all the same basically) will start screaming at you. you can call it a 'lie'. everyone in the civilized world knows its a lie to promise somethign and not deliver. except in the IT world we know that 'lie' has taken on a special meaning, as has 'promise'. but in unix/free-software 'lie' and 'promise' are useless abstractions. to mention these words is like speaking in cherokee about health care to an audience of chinese cabinet makers at a woodworking convention. the concept of 'lie' and 'promise' are as alien to the world of unix software development as a razor is to richard stallmans face.
thats all well and good. its a free country. you can make horrible products and scream at people for pointing out their flaws, and its a free country.
but apple is a company. they supposedly want people to use their product and they supposedly care about peoples feelings, or at the very least they care about their credibility amongst professsionals who are trying to use their tools.
it is as though merely by using unix, they have allowed themselves to become polluted by the unix ideology of software development: hate users, make half-assed horrible GUIs that crash all the time, and ignore the consequences: the cconsequences being that everyone says 'screw it' and goes and uses Windows instead.
maybe the apple shareholders should read this page, because i am sure the ravneous gnu hippies that have infested Apple are sure as not going to do anything about these problems. they ARE the problem.
it's a shame..
2003-11-26 17:27:39 anonymous2 [View]
from the point of view a java programmer, it's interesting to note that project builder's achilles heel was its lack of code completion.
i was going to say that i was a fool to think that code completion would work this time (java). but now that i think of it, i wasn't a fool; i was simply lied to.
not only was the product renamed, hyped, but it advertised code completion!
having read the discussion threads to this article, i now realize that of all features, code completion is not even addressed for java programming (and care must have been taken to hide this information (side note: i'd rather be told it not work than be lied to)).
what exactly does this say about this "xcode" product? my conclusion is that java developers should not hang their hopes (and waste their time) on ide's with the apple brand, unless they submit to writing proprietary code.
well, at least there's a java runtime on this os.
i should have listened to uncle bob when he said: get either of these two ide's: intellij idea or eclipse
it's a shame...that you are a moron.
2003-12-06 08:54:18 anonymous2 [View]
C, C++, and Objective C are not proprietary languages. Java's APIs are no more free or open than Win32 or Cocoa. GnuStep is a free implementation of Cocoa/NextStep; WINE is a free implementation of Win32. Have the GNU folks gotten around to building a free implementation of Swing yet? JDBC? JNDI?
Enough with the self-righteous, anti-proprietary posturing. You act as if you're interested in libr�, but all you really want is free beer, perhaps cross platform free beer.
it's a shame...that you are a moron.
2004-02-28 13:45:44 heljen [View]
It takes a moron to call someone a moron.
There's no royalty fee on using Swing or JDBC. And do you even know what JNDI is?
Sun does charge a license fee for their application server though.
If you're a diehard C or C++ evangelist then I forgive your ignorance. If not, please inform yourself before going hemroid about it.
it's a shame...that you are a moron.
2004-01-02 16:28:01 anonymous2 [View]
I agree no one would right a quality OS X application using Java & Swing. They lack the performance or feel of a native app OS X Cocoa app. Take one look at the Java API source and you will see it's a complete hack with it's heavyweight and lightweight peer scheme.
I have developed a comercial quality application with Xcode/ObjC/Cocoa. XCode and Cocoa deliver.
Adding Additional Libraries
2003-11-05 03:48:00 anonymous2 [View]
My question does Xcode offer the ability to plug-in libraries or API's, for example, ColdFusion or ActionScript?
Adding Additional Libraries
2004-08-09 04:48:51 robbevan [View]
ActionScript specification files can be found here: http://type.robbevan.com/robbish/2004/06/actionscript_sy.html
2003-10-30 10:23:25 altjeringa [View]
Where did J2EE go? Did I mess something up on install or did Apple drop J2EE Xcode support when they went GM. It was there in the Developer releases. Oh well, looks like JBuilder is finally releaseing for OS X again.
2003-11-02 11:13:06 anonymous2 [View]
yeah, you have to customise the install and sleect the J2ee option.
XCode NRFPT
2003-10-30 09:35:21 anonymous2 [View]
I have been using XCode since the original release, and I'm afraid that it is mostly smoke and not much fire. Most of the much-promoted features (distributed compiles, zero-link, fix-and-continue) either don't work or don't deliver on their promises, and the UI is a mess compared to PB, which wasn't any prize.
IMHO, Apple should have simply added the speed features to PB and _called_ it XCode -- the UI didn't need to be made both more complicated and less useful. The manhours saved could have been used on making the speed features actually work correctly.
Simple, basic example of the klutzy new world of XCode:
Say you notice that you have several files in the source-code list that are "dirty". You command-select them all, and attempt to "Save", because XCode has an annoying habit of crashing at bizarre moments.
Oops, Save is not available -- the only way to select Save is one-file-at-a-time, and the file editor itself has to be the first responder, not the file list. Really dopey.
So you go to Save All -- and instead of Saving All, you get a window asking you if you REALLY WANTED TO SAVE.
How stupid is this?
A giant step backwards in fundamental usability.
We won't even talk about how the Find functionality has been gutted.
And if anyone can tell me an easy way to embed a framework in an application while not including the headers, I'm all ears. I would use a static library, but of course static libraries don't import objective-c categories correctly -- an amazing bug that should have been targeted a long time ago instead of wasting Apple man-hours on replacing the PB UI with an inferior one.
And while I'm whining, what genius decided that "Project>AddFiles..." would disallow adding a file from inside the project folder? How brain-dead is that? Someone actually had to DECIDE to do this. Actual man-hours were spent implementing this silliness!
I find it hard to believe that Apple's own development team is using XCode -- every time I try to do something new, I spend hours fighting the development environment.
XCode NRFPT
2003-12-09 11:27:09 anonymous2 [View]
And while I'm whining, what genius decided that "Project>AddFiles..." would disallow adding a file from inside the project folder? How brain-dead is that? Someone actually had to DECIDE to do this. Actual man-hours were spent implementing this silliness!
I find it hard to believe that Apple's own development team is using XCode -- every time I try to do something new, I spend hours fighting the development environment.
2003-10-29 13:31:33 anonymous2 [View]
I like XCode and had no problems moving from Project Builder whatsoever with my Giant Java Project. That's the first time moving from one IDE to another, or even moving within the same IDE from version to version, hasn't required me to rewrite at least one line of code before a successful first compile. I eagerly await the "native" Java target for the IDE, so that I can play with the runtime relinking too! Congratulations, Apple, and thanks!
This is a general problem with the Mac GUI
2003-10-29 08:55:42 anonymous2 [View]
"when you edit multiple files, you ask to compile, you get the window asking to save the files, but hitting enter does not "click the default button" of the dialog. Instead, you have to click manually with the mouse."
I hate to say anything nce about Windows, but in Windows keyboard navigation is a first class citizen, not an afterthought. Regardless of the API you use, what apple calls "full keyboard navigation" is enabled... and it goes far beyond what Apple provides.
I use a Mac at home and Windows at work, and every morning and every evening I go through a frustrating readjustmant. On the Windows side it's the usual "you never know what the h*ll Windows is doing" problems. On the mac it's going back to the "one hand on the keyboard one hand on the mouse" navigation... not only does Apple have lousy keyboard navigation, but if you're mousing around you have to keep your fingers ready for option-click and command-click.
This is a general problem with the Mac GUI
2003-12-17 13:59:43 anonymous2 [View]
What are you talking about?
I can't recreate the problem you describe when using 1.0.1, are you using an early version or something?
If "enter" doesn't click the default button, the space bar always does...
besides, what rational reason would you have for not using "always save" when compiling? Use an SCM tool and have XCode save files for you.
This is a general problem with the Mac GUI
2003-12-04 00:41:34 anonymous2 [View]
I hate mac. Mac sucks sucks sucks in keyboard navigation.
Windows is the mother of keyboard navigation.
I wish mac could learn from windows.
I especially like Alt+<underlined menu items>, which
is sort of universally works everywhere even if you
happen to forget the shortcut keys.
This is a general problem with the Mac GUI
2004-07-24 03:44:19 maximus [View]
Just enable Keyboard navigation. It is an option on OS X. Any menu any submenu becomes accessible via the keyboard.
In addition to key-stroke accelerators you may navigate through menus with arrow keys.
This is a general problem with the Mac GUI
2003-12-30 07:31:46 anonymous2 [View]
You didn't mention that they have one-button mouse :-)
This is a general problem with the Mac GUI
2004-01-01 23:35:46 anonymous2 [View]
Sure, but YOU didn't mention that two button mice work just as well on macs as on any other computer. It's just that Apple doesn't make them.
This is a general problem with the Mac GUI
2004-01-18 22:26:48 anonymous2 [View]
Actually any Mouse with any number of bottons will work well in OS X, I use an intelliMouse Explorer and OS X allows programability for all those extra buttons...
OS X's Aqua GUI has no general problems its only that your point of view has you looking at it differently. Microsoft made headway with XP's Luna GUI, and supposedly "longhorn" will be even better, but as far as system stability and ease of use Mac OS X is still a decade ahead of Microsoft, and will be for the forseeable future...
xCode for ObjC/Cocoa App
2003-10-28 22:53:16 anonymous2 [View]
I actually liked Project Builder, but made the switch to xCode to keep up with the Jone's. The transition has gone smoothly. I am not seeing all the crashes that some have reported.
My application is a straight forward Cocoa ObjC development. My Project Builder project imported nicely into xCode keeping all the build styles. The debugger doesn't seem quite as reliable.
I turned off the auto code completion as it was slow and just wasn't intuitive enough.
One thing I liked about Project builder was containing everything to one window. XCode seems to allow editing in one window, but that's about it.
I don't really see Xcode as an improvement, just a change. So for now I will stick with xCode.
I considered using Java for the development, but the performance was so substandard to the native Obj/Cocoa API's.
XCode java and Extensions
2003-10-27 19:48:21 anonymous2 [View]
How does XCode handle Java Extensions.
For example, if I drop in a .jar file into
will XCode pick it up, and will I be able to
import com.meterware.httpunit.*;
We need a java documentation update for XCode.
not really...
2003-10-27 06:33:31 saneh [View]
XCode has what looks like a lot of cool features, but the UI is so buggy, it's extremely painfull to use. I'm keeping a jaguar box to do developement until usable version comes out.
Amongst unbelievable UI bugs:
- when you edit multiple files, you ask to compile, you get the window asking to save the files, but hitting enter does not "click the default button" of the dialog. Instead, you have to click manually with the mouse.
- when you ask for a single window to edit file, the tool insist on opening a new window every time you ask for a new file from the keyboard.
it goes on and on... This tool *IS* unusable!!! unless you are willing to put up with at lot of frustration.
Errors and Warnings
2003-10-26 11:04:51 anonymous2 [View]
I too can't seem to get the "errors and warnings" smart list to work.
I'm compiling a Java project, and any errors show up in the "detailed build results" window, but not the "errors and warnings" list, which is greyed out 90% of the time and filled with bogus errors the other 10%.
Anyone been able to get this to work?
Errors and Warnings
2003-10-26 21:11:49 jimothy [View]
Submit a bug to http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/ , as I just did. So far, I've only had the "errors and warning" group greyed out, so you'll be able to provide them with a different test case. Plus, it helps to have additional bug cases so they know this is affecting a number of users.
Am I the only person who's baffled by the new Xcode?
2003-10-26 09:43:43 anonymous2 [View]
I'm an avid, albeit hobbyist, programmer -- relatively new to OSX (coming from linux) and have written code for several platforms (embedded motorola chips, win32, java, BeOS). So, for what it's worth, while I'm no professional, I have quite a bit of experience with different IDEs as well as the good old configure/automake/make triumvirate. I've made a lot of IDE/build environment transitions, and I always manage to blindly grope my way through.
Coming to OS X, the best thing, I thought, was how straightforward Project Builder was -- it only took me a couple weeks to grok it; hell, most of it I figured out just porting over my old code from linux. I learned it by using it. I also bought some O'Reilly books, of course, to familiarize myself with Cocoa and Darwin.
Anyway, I've been hammering on Xcode for the last couple days now, and frankly, I feel like a babe in the woods. It's not like I'm averse to change -- it's just that PB was *simple* enough that it was easy to do a number of diverse things... dare I say: PB seemed lightweight. Xcode seems more like... emacs (if PB could be compared to VI). I'm lost! It's like having your dishwasher be replaced with an industrial autoclave.
Thank god my old PB projects build still, but I'm having a hell of a time doing the simplest things like making a new dynamic library and having it "see" internal project dependancies correctly. I'm working on a system that's heavily dependant on plugins, and while my *old* plugin targets still work, I can't duplicate them -- the vanilla "Library" option is gone. The old ones seem to have been given a legacy "grace" target of some sort. And the new library options won't build.
Well, I'm sure that given a couple weeks I'll figure this hoo ha out. But it's a shame that it's going to have to be like going through high-school all over again. Confusion, akwardness, shame, and failure. A big waste of time.
Personally, I'm ready to shell out whatever it costs for anything O'Reilly publishes that purports to teach me Xcode. I'm excited about the improvements Xcode delivers... particularly in regards to live searches and better SCM. I just wish the Xcode docs had a "what's new and how to grok it" section.
A baffled programmer.
Am I the only person who's baffled by the new Xcode?
2003-12-26 11:23:52 anonymous2 [View]
"Xcode seems more like... emacs (if PB could be compared to VI). I'm lost! It's like having your dishwasher be replaced with an industrial autoclave."
On the contrary: PB is like pico: it's more than a basic editor, but you can grok it pretty quickly and it's often self-explanatory. Now BBEdit, there's your vi...
Subprojects and Unit Tests
2003-10-25 10:02:17 iapole [View]
Nice article; good quick overview.
As for your wants, I should note that there was something in the Xcode release notes about subprojects. I believe that you can now add a project to another project and have your targets in the enclosing project depend on targets in the subproject.
Also, there are unit testing frameworks available which do just this. I don't know much about them, but OCUnit and ObjCUnit (I think) are both just exactly like that. As to whether they work in Xcode yet or not, I dunno.
Subprojects and Unit Tests
2003-10-25 18:14:44 anonymous2 [View]
I just came across this quote on apple's "Xcode: A First Look Page":
"This [Flagged compile errors] increases the utility of the gutter, which previously was used only for breakpoints. In the future, we hope to see even more information about code represented here. One example would be to put pass/fail annotations from test units into the edit view."
Afterall, we can dream, can't we
Subprojects and Unit Tests
2003-10-25 18:17:08 anonymous2 [View]
I'm the anonymous who just wrote this above. I just discovered that apple's article was written by James Duncan Davidson, the same person who wrote this article.
Oh well, it was nice to think that it was coming for a while.
Thanks for your great articles (both of them)
2003-10-25 09:35:45 anonymous2 [View]
Great review, except you forgot to mention that because of many bugs Xcode is almost unusable in many aspects. It is of course understandable, as it's in early iterations and can be compared to early ProjectBuilder in Mac OS X 10.0, but still it is riddled with various bugs, small and big. I am sure Apple will be improving the situation, though, but Xcode in it's current shape cannot be recommended as a development environment as-is, IMHO.
2003-10-28 13:45:40 leeharveyosmond [View]
It is easy to be dismissive of a new IDE/build system; after all, it's different from what you're used to. The first IDE I was prepared to tolerate was the NEXTSTEP 3.3 ProjectBuilder. In time -- and it was a long time, but I did get there -- I came to really adore the OPENSTEP 4.2 ProjectBuilder. And I was prepared to believe that I'd like "the new Project Builder", one day, if and when it was finished.
But Xcode plain sucks. The consistency of keystrokes is just missing. Whatever you were used to in ProjectBuilder or whatever will have changed, and will change again. And again. [So this can't be some sort of CodeWorrier emulation thing.] Am I supposed to be clicking here? Or double-clicking? Or triple-clicking? Or modifier clicking? Time to stop guessing, and go to the menu.
I'd like to say that if searching the documentation has improved that's good, but that'll I'll believe it when I see it. But I can't honestly say that; I can say that I'll let you know what I think, if I ever find it.
#include <appkit/DigitalLibrarian/nostalgia.h>
ls ~/bin/darwin/DocumentationSearcherScripts/*.sh
In the meantime, I've imported a very simple PBX Project Builder project, and the Xcode build tool knows what the install location is, but Xcode won't show me, so I can't change it. And not all of us have a bunch of 21" displays in a multiheaded configuration attached to something so factory-fresh and speedy that you can smell the loose plastic monomers, and Xcode does indeed bite here too.
So what I'd love to do is create something lean and minimal and cussed, much like something that could grow into the NX3.3 ProjectBuilder; it'd be a pretty front end to 'gnumake' and 'grep', and I could customise the makefiles to my heart's content 'cause I'd know how they work and I trust gnumake; and I could use the text editor or editors of my choice; and I would have to do without zero-point links or whatever they're called, and filtered prettified compilation error panes, and tight integration with InterfaceBuilder; and if I ever implement this daydream, I can get back to thinking about code instead of thinking about Xcode being in the way when I need to do something.
Serves me right for those jokes about comprehensive hermeneutics being a useful limbering-up exercise in preparation for reading the Win32 API references I suppose.
2003-10-26 16:40:53 anonymous2 [View]
I agree completely. I hadn't really used the new versions of XCode/IB until I got my copy of Panter. I had no idea what I was in for with regards to stability. And because I did an archive and install when installing Panther the frameworks for the older versions aren't there so I can't run PB. I've been reluctant to copy things over to try to make the old versions work, but I'm afraid I may not have a choice.
Is anyone else finding IB especially to be very crash prone? I find a lot of errors with "inconsistencies" which then lead to complete meltdowns. Often I can't even get the nib file open to fix it.
Anyway yes this is an early iteration, but it's still a released product and I hope for apple's sake that my experience isn't the norm.
2003-11-18 14:27:06 anonymous2 [View]
Wonder if it's just my configuration, but I also found XCode (1.0.1 running on Panther 10.3.1) unstable to the point of being unusable! It also seems to lack the flexibility of ProjectBuilder, e.g. reordering or moving files between build phases.
One of the most annoying things is files I add to my project tend to disappear from it when I close and reopen it.
Can only hope Apple quickly releases a decent upgrade. Otherwise, I wonder what are my options for reinstalling ProjectBuilder on top of the current Dev Tools...
2003-11-19 12:30:30 anonymous2 [View]
Got around my above problems. Looks like this happens when using sub-projects... Maybe something wrong with the project I was including. Anyway it caused the including project to behave very strangely, basically ignoring any attempt at changing anything. Reordering or moving files now works.
Think you have to be careful and save copies frequently in case your project becomes corrupted for some reason...
Code completion in Java
2003-10-24 13:26:54 bashyal [View]
Thanks for the interesting review. A couple of questions:
Does code completion work in Java projects ? Also, is it extensible ? Is there a documented way to write plug-ins ?
Code completion in Java
2003-10-25 06:50:10 anonymous2 [View]
The release notes (and my experience) state that code completion does not work in Java. My guess, and hope, is that it will in a future version.
I'm also finding that errors and warnings for my Java project aren't being displayed in either the "errors and warning" group or the gutter, as described in this article. For Obj-C, it's working, but no dice for Java.
But I can't even run a Java program that opens a window (Frame). Perhaps these problems are because I did an upgrade install versus an archive-and-install. I'll probably reinstall and see how that goes.
This is from just one day of playing with Panther, but I'd like to know if anybody else experienced these sorts of problems.
Code completion in Java
2003-10-28 10:20:39 anonymous2 [View]
I've been using XCode too for Java. Or rather I haven't. Sure would be nice if code completion worked (I know the Java keywords and don't need to be reminded) and errors were shown anywhere at all.
Code completion in Java
2003-11-22 12:07:02 anonymous2 [View]
Codewarrior 9 has made significant improvements. I'm glad Apple finally updted from version 8 to 9.0
I can hardly wait for 10!
so is that what they call 9? xCode? i think the original name (CodeWarrior) sounded much better.

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Purpose of the game is to get the highest score.
The lowest time means that the highest score.
To get the highest score you need to fill the honeycomb that given to you with the honey drops as soon as possible.
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verry simple, but could use some achivements for newgrounds points. like in different stiles of copleting, and more levels, good start though.
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just clicking are you serious no music
dude this could be a good game if you could use a bee and go on adventures but just clicking
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Will is a senior developer at DNA Design, Wellington, New Zealand. He has been a contributor to SilverStripe since 2007, maintains several modules and is a well known face around the IRC and forum as willr.
I had the pleasure of attending the recent SilverStripe meetup in Wellington and listening to Cam Findlay's discussion on community engagement (if you weren't lucky enough to join us there, I recommend you watch the videos). The night ended with an open Q&A between everyone about building community and how we can all help enhance the abilitiy for us to share collective knowledge and improve our community of practice.
The primary way to help share knowledge between lurkers, learners and old timers revolved around one elephant in the room - Documentation. "Sucks" was an oft-mentioned word, and frankly, I'm not even going to deny or defend that because documentation does suck for the most part.
Documentation is key to any software product, it's how users understand what it is that they're using, why they should use it and how they can use it to solve their problems.
SilverStripe's documentation is the first point for the majority of newcomers to the product and a daily stop for the regulars. It should support, guide and show users first, how easy it is to get setup and start building nifty things quickly in order for them to dig into learning more. The more a user wants (and can) dive deeper, the further the docs should support as their primary reference. The responsibility of the documentation then, is critical. To guide people from learning and achieving the basic knowledge, all the way up to a point of understanding where they feel comfortable building awesome applications. That then feeds back into the user contributing through bug reports, patches, documentation modules, themes and IRC / forum support. Those contributions complete and benefit the entire eco system the the cycle continues.
How does the documentation currently fail at meeting those objectives? Well we can all list the reasons to hate it; it doesn't cover enough material, hard to find the information you need, search is useless, content is out of date etc. Writing good documentation is hard, not impossible, but the responiblity needs to be shared, just like everyone helping out together in IRC, forums and stack overflow. Documentation is not [insert some other developers'] problem, it's ours as a collective community of practice. We all work, play, live using this software. If I run into a problem and solve it, most likely that solution could help you, and likewise for you. Did you solve a problem like adding a new button to GridField? Awesome! Documenting that might just solve my problems.
If I had a nickel for every time I answered a forum post with a solution that wasn't covered in the documentation, I'd be funding a trip halfway around the world by now. My fault, I'll take the blame for this one. I should (and trying to) make sure that if anyone asks a question on the forum, I ask myself the question "Where in the documentation do we talk about this?". If I can't think of one, perhaps I need to document it.
It may take less than an hour of mine (or your) time to quickly add a section to the docs but think that time may just help any of the other thousand fellow community members and potentially your future self. If you don't think you understand the solution enough to document, that offers a good chance to ask someone who might know, or raise a ticket. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is guilty of finding something out and not sharing that knowledge.
It's easy to get carried away being 'busy' with 'real' work fixing client sites and making a living, but just like the rest of SilverStripe, bugs don't magically get fixed, or features added in automatically by robots. Documentation is the collective result of individual people putting a bit of their time, effort and patience into improving things for everyone else.
Nearly 2 years ago we had bigger issues with the documentation. In fact, noone was updating the documentation. What came from a bit of research was the realisation that developers loved working with code, documentation not so much. They would submit code patches for new features, rewrite API's or even remove things without considering the documentation wiki in the short term. As the wiki didn't track the major updates (2.2, 2.3, 2.4), post or pre a major release, the content would exist in a disjoint state, stuck in gray matter between two different worlds of API revisions.
We needed a system that lowered the barrier to updating docs as much as possible for the people who write the most documentation. Developers love their code, so let's make documentation exactly like their code! Hence we moved everything to static markdown files, stored alongside the core, modules or themes in a 'docs' folder. This solved a lot of pains over the wiki concept, while introducing some new ones.
Although this system does have a few trade offs.
However, those trade offs weren't much of a deal breaker, they could be mitigated.
As one of the maintainers of the silverstripe-docs tool, I'm keen on futher reducing those tradeoffs with things like inline editing directly on doc.silverstripe.org for casual edits that syncs with github and redoing the search functionality to improve the experience of finding the content and making it easier to add content.
Let's space out again for a second, every single line of documentation currently online was written by a person much in the same position as you; each contribuion started by fixing one little thing. What our whole community is working off is over five years of little pieces of individuals. Have you ever noticed an issue in the documentation? Add a comment to the page, better yet submit a pull request, or request that someone with more experience should be brought in to explain.
As World Vision and other charities will have you believe; every little bit counts.
hey thanks for pointing out it's possible to edit documentation directly on github, definitly worth it for quick corrections
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The struggle that thousands of couples face with conception and infertility can become a nagging see-saw of hope and renewed monthly heartbreak, invisible to the naked eye yet latent, inexorable, hiding just below the surface of a person's public persona.
Because many find the subject too personal or painful to discuss in public, couples in this situation ally themselves with the tools, and the probing, invasive tests that the worlds of medicine, counseling, and psychology have to offer.
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A Georgetown University freshman has a compelling essay in the Washington Post on how poorly his schools, among Washington's finest, did not prepare him for the demands of a highly selective college.
Darryl Robinson attended the Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for Public Policy, a well regarded prep school in the District where getting accepted to a college or university is a prerequisite for graduation. But Darryl says he still found a gap between what he could do and what his better-prepared classmates could do. He explains that his high school teachers did not push him "to think past a basic level, to apply concepts, to move beyond memorizing facts and figures."
But Darryl understands the struggle that his teachers and now his Georgetown professors faced — playing catch-up with students who arrive in their classes ill prepared to handle the workload.
Darryl did not give up, crediting twice-weekly tutoring and regular sessions with his professors with helping him conquer his deficits. He devotes most of this time to studying, noting, "My social life isn't as exciting as I hoped it would be because I'm spending so much time studying. But all my extra effort has paid off: I've gone from floundering to finally making it at Georgetown."
Some of my regular readers will cite this essay as evidence that poor kids from inner city high schools cannot make it when admitted to elite colleges, admissions that they will deride as affirmative action. But I see it as evidence of how such disadvantaged students can succeed if they are determined and their universities are willing to work with them.
Here is an excerpt but please read the entire piece. It is worth your time today:
Since the third grade, my teachers told me I was exceptional, but they never pushed me to think for myself. And when I did excel, they didn't trust that I'd done the hard work. They assumed I was cheating. Now, only 10 miles from those teachers and schools where I was considered a standout, I've had to work double-time just to keep up.
I first noticed the gap between me and my classmates after my first writing assignment at Georgetown. In an English class to help prepare incoming freshmen, we were asked to analyze the main character's development in "Persepolis," a graphic memoir about growing up in Tehran during the Iranian revolution. I thought it was an easy assignment. Everyone's papers were distributed to the class, and it was immediately obvious how mine fell short: I merely summarized the plot of the book without making any real argument. I got a D-minus.
I did what I'd been taught growing up in school: memorize and regurgitate information. Other Georgetown freshmen from better schools had been trained to form original, concise thoughts within a breath, to focus less on remembering every piece of information, word for word, and more on forming independent ideas. I was not. I could memorize and recite facts and figures, but I didn't know how to think for myself. Now, in an attempt to think deeper, I sometimes overthink myself into silence.
One of the biggest challenges I faced in my first semester in college was in my chemistry lecture and lab. Since I hope to go to medical school, this is a required course. I took chemistry in high school, but I didn't learn enough to make it in this class. I was lost from the first lecture on. Despite going to a tutor three days a week, I ended up dropping the class so that I could study more on my own and be ready for it next year. The experience of dropping a class was devastating, but it was the right choice.
–From Maureen Downey, for the AJC Get Schooled blog
April 16th, 2012
12:24 pm
There is nothing as exhilarating as a self-motivated student, and nothing that they cannot do.
April 16th, 2012
12:32 pm
I read this excellent article yesterday and thought about the countless number of students who are in the same predicament as he. Your readers should also read the comments following the article as it appears that everyone knows someone in the same position. It took lots of courage for this young man to publish this story about himself. It is clear to most people that he will finish his career at Georgetown successfully. Hopefully this topic will not turn into another opportunity to bash teachers. I work in an excellent school and find the majority of the teachers to clearly love their jobs and their students and want to see them achieve. Unfortunately, with so many cuts to the educational budget, furloughs, the never-ending paperwork, and exceedingly large class sizes, it is not hard to see why there is so much frustration across the board. Believe me, if that student was accepted into Georgetown, he has the academic chops to succeed. He already has the work-ethic.
April 16th, 2012
12:35 pm
Colleges should NOT have to play make-up with their students. They should not have to offer remedial courses (classes that prepare you for freshman English). I am guessing that Darryl did ok on the SAT?
April 16th, 2012
12:53 pm
One theme I get in this story…what should we teach and evaluate in K-12 schools? It is CRCT season. Aside from identifying woefully unprepared students and punishing teachers & principals, what do these tests really do for learning? In most grades, doing poorly on the CRCT doesn't stop promotions. I suspect teachers have a good idea which students will struggle long before they take the test. I would guess that Mr. Robinson got good grades and did well on the DC equivalent of the CRCT. It's not enough.
I'd like to see more critical thinking in high school education. One challenge for many good students in less than great schools is getting a good handle on how to grow critical thinking skills when many graded tasks are simply about memorization.
I wish the young man well. He seems to have good ideas about how to pull himself forward.
April 16th, 2012
1:01 pm
Somewhere along the way, Mr. Robinson had someone who let him know that he COULD make it–that he "belonged" at Georgetown. God bless to that person, and to the young man who believes it and is making it happen.
April 16th, 2012
1:16 pm
I have an interesting paradox that I've noticed in my classes….. Students complain when they are spoon-fed the information that they need to regurgitate for the EOCT because they are bored, but then they complain when I ask them to think about the material (so that they really learn it) because thinking is too hard.
April 16th, 2012
1:57 pm
Schools have been undergoing a steady decline over the past 10 years. Garbage programs like "Learning Focus" which sprang up as a result of NCLB have contributed much to this.
Teachers are working themselves to death creating plans, rubrics, graphic organizers and what not to make learning easier for students (a.k.a. "spoonfeeding") while students themselves have spent less time actually contibuting to their own education. I have noticed my own work week is at least 6 hours longer than it was 15 years ago.
Teachers are being criticized by administrators and the general because students are not succeeding.
The student, meanwhile, is passed on because it might hurt their self esteem to be held back and because it might reflect poorly on the school if they are. Each grade finds them more and more behind.
It's nice to see students like the one in the essay. I just wish there were more like them.
April 16th, 2012
2:00 pm
Well written story by Mr. Robinson! It reminded me of a similar realization I had during my first year in college. It was easy to look around and recognized that I lacked the same preparation that my classmates had coming to college, despite being labeled as 'smart'. When we got the 'look to your left, look to your right, one of you won't be here in 4 years" speech, I thought I would be the one not to make it. I'm glad to say I was the one that did. It took a lot of hard work and sacrifice to make it. I'm confident Mr. Robinson will finish Georgetown as he is also making the necessary sacrifices to succeed.
That is probably why I push my children beyond the smart label and have higher expectations for them. Unfortunately as Mr. Robinson indicated, I also encountered some teachers that did not share the same level of high expectations as I had for my children. That is where I supplemented their school instruction with that from the world classroom. I knew to do that yet empathize with those students that did/do not have someone pushing them also.
April 16th, 2012
5:53 pm
If you read John Taylor Gatto's material, his research shows that the point of public education (which I know those who want to really believe in publc eduation really dispute) is the antithesis of critical thinking and self development — it is to become citizens who can regurgitate facts and figures to a very basic level. Only a very few very self motivated ones can make it through and succeed. If you read the material and think about your own experiences very critically and with an open mind — along wtih pieces like this essay– it really does all add up. I realized not so long ago — re-reviewing my college transcript just how unprepared I was for an "elite" college from my "blue collar" public high school — I did very well high school #13 of 385 kids (with a number of kids not in advanced classes between #3 and me) but I was totally unprepared for the upper level thinking requred of me when I got to college. I ultimately figured it out and have done well. But, no, I really wasn't prepared. My eyes have really been opened recently seeing the differences between what one son was taught in a DCSS public high school and what his brothers have been taught (and how they've been taught) in private school. It's very eye opening. Layer that on what Gatto's research shows and it's striking.
April 16th, 2012
5:56 pm
Also, if the true "goal" of "public education" were to actually, really educate the children, I firmly believe that the way it is being done would be handled very differently because each child is truly unique. You can't treat the children as one and the same and society doesn't ultimatley need them to come out at the end as they can be treated with "pacing charts" and all at "grade level" and meeting "standards' becuase they are all unique…. think about it. But if the public school system is really supposed to be really a jobs program by design — if you get out of your box and critically assess it that way — well, then — it has been very effective. It all depends on what the real, true, goal of the system really is (not your goal or my goal but the goal of the system itself as determined by those really in charge at the top and at its foundational roots). Just think some about it without reacting when you read a piece like this.
April 16th, 2012
6:27 pm
So, what IS the true purpose of public education? We're often expected to recite the mantra that "all children can learn," but learn what? Are we saying that all students can reach the same levels? Only if we work to hold those back who would have reached higher levels. Hmmm… critical thinking may be leading me into dangerous territory…
April 16th, 2012
7:38 pm
We use creative thinking frequently in our home school. Today the kids spent time on "Zillo" to research housing prices in our area and notice the cost/sq. ft., size of lot, ranch or 2-story, etc. Each student is given a budget and will be designing their dream house (with green features) within the given constraints. They will make a working blueprint of their design drawn to scale. They must use math, creativity, drafting skills, research skills, et. to complete their project. So far they are very excited to work on it. As a bonus, I found some great real estate deals on Zillo…….
April 16th, 2012
8:42 pm
Unfortunately, I think many students have this experience.
I teach at a Dekalb high school with many good students. However, these students (and their parents) often prioritize grades over ideas. Thinking? Well, ask these same students how many essays (isn't this one of the best ways to cultivate analytical thinking?) they write for any class, much less an English class, when their teachers work with 130+ students every day? Then factor in the pointless county mandated grading requirements and"data-driven instruction" promoted by "educators" who've spent little to no time ever teaching students.
I resent how many students like Darryl are denied the opportunities they deserve while heaps of "educators," "instructional specialists,"and ________ ________ ________ superintendents earn salaries that eat away at the funds needed to employ more teachers-the very people who work with the Darryls (and others far more deficient) of public schools.
April 16th, 2012
8:45 pm
I'll reserve my sorrow for the poor Asian kids who studied harder than this guy in high school and got better grades and SAT scores but didn't get into Georgetown because their skin isn't dark enough. I'll bet Darryl got a full scholarship to boot.
April 16th, 2012
9:34 pm
@ Maureen.
So what? Getting "preferential" treatment for having some unique skill (like atheletics), being from an underrepresented geographical area, or having family connections is completely different from preferential treatment based on race.
Our society has a history of struggling with racial equality. Race in the United States is a unique issue that is treated differently from the other considerations you list — from a historical, moral, social, and certainly legal standpoint. Unlike any of the other considerations you cite, distinctions among people based on race are subject to the highest scrutiny. And for good reason.
Race is immutable: you can become an accomplished tennis player or choose where you live more readily than you can become some other race (and at least theoretically, you're parents can become big donors — it's at least possible). Race is random: no one can choose their own race, but you can choose to focus on soccer or apply to a school that seeks students from North Dakota (and even with family connections, someone in your family chose to go into politics or donate money to a given school). Race deserves special consideration because people have engaged in racial discrimination (both pernicious and reverse discrimination) historically — non-golfers, children of non-politicians are not part of a specially protected class.
If affirmative action has merit, then say so and tell us why. But this tired argument that race should be considered because it's just like any other factor is absurd. Giving preferential treatment based on race is not the same as giving preferential treatment for legacy status or tennis rank or residency in North Dakota. Race is different — we all know that. The implications of that are up for debate.
April 16th, 2012
10:47 pm
Truth in Mod. -and Dekalbed and NW Ga — your comments beautifully dovetail into what Gatto's research shows.. and it's not, generally, the teachers who are out there thinking that they're not trying to actually educate the kids (yes, there are some teachers who are so uneducated themselves that they can't truly educate the kids) — for the most part, teachers go into teaching to really teach the kids but then they are up against the walls thrown at them in the form of the regualations and testing and mandatory "scripts" and pacing charts and "it doesn't matter where the kid is at… but they must be at grade level by the end of the year and it's your fault if they are or they're not and this is precisely how you're going to get there [enter scripted curriculum and pre-test, test and post-test, etc.". Then you say, how is it that in other environments (e.g. home school or private school, maybe in charter schools, you can actually get to "critical thinking" or "classical" education but by and larger in public schools around the country, you can not get there? Maybe, just maybe, it's becuase the point of public school isn't really to get there at all? Maybe, just maybe, it's because there real point (from the point of view of those really in charge) is to create a beurocratic jobs program through the use of massive amounts of taxpayer money that "appears" to educate but doesn't really? That's the question….. It's hard to swallow … remember — my mother was a teacher, my mother-in-law was teacher, my father-in-law taught and was an assistant principal, I went through 12 years of public ed, my husband was in public school thrrough his masters degree, my grandparents were teachers… public school runs through the inner core of my blood and I had my children in public school until I just saw them suffer a little bit too much….. and absolutely had to pull them private. We went private kicking and screaming…. it's been so eye opening. I ask you to consider these questions and critically think through it — thinking about this essay, thinking about the APS cheating scandal and about the pending indictments in DCSS, thinking about all the other scandals in education floating about. Read Gatto's book — I'm not saying it's the Bible and 100% true — I'm saying it rung true based on what we've been seeing locally.
April 17th, 2012
12:30 am
I Graduated 5th in my class from another Catholic University in DC 30 years ago. I came from a lower income, yet white family. My mother never graduated from high school. I knew going in that it was my money that I was spending and that partying, visits home were not an option. Graduating in 4 years with high grades were what was important. I see over and over where he thought like too many college students that he was going to go and party. He grew up in D.C.. what was so important about going out in Georgetown. Seeing some drunk gay Congressman or Senator out in one of Georgetowns gay bars. That was the big deal of my days in DC, where you would see the limo's of the smashed Congressmen going. It is more important to study and get good grades. You can party when you graduate. I turned down partying a zillion times in college. That is how you graduate 5th and get a free ride to graduate school. That is the equalizer, being self motivated and studying.
My daughter's SAT/ACT tutor tells us their are plenty of dense students at Westminster and the other Privates that he tutors.
April 17th, 2012
7:59 am
I too come from a family of educators. I'm the family renegade! I've been home schooling since the 90's and was inspired to do so by the research of Charlotte Iserbyt (Deliberate Dumbing Down of America) as well as my own. Later, when Gatto published his book, I became a fan as well. Over the years, I have concluded that the so called "classical" model of education has merit and my teaching style is loosely based on it. Young children have the ability to store vast amounts of information in the brain, without necessarily understanding all of it. Memorizing long passages of poetry or math facts is more efficiently done at this age. I use a curriculum that takes advantage of this, and all of mine were reading and writing in cursive by kindergarten. However, as the child matures, the brain also goes through changes such that by 5th-8th grades, their logic system begins to mature. Now they want to know the "how" and "cause and effect" of the information they have learned. The education style should change at this point from rote memorization to the introduction of logic. That's why the old fashioned method of teaching geometry proofs should be taught to 8th-9th graders. If students have been taught many facts since K-5th (especially chronological history), they are now ready to synthesize this info into useful and meaningful information. Integrated subject assignments should reflect this "logic" stage of the brain. If this is done consistently, by high school, a student is ready to delve into the deeper meaning of things (philosophy, religion) and be able to express his ideas to others in a coherent and persuasive manner, through writing, speaking, or the arts. In conclusion, rote memorization has its place, as well as integrated, hands on learning. To me, it is the sequence in which they are used that is important. Many of the Founding Fathers had this classical education, and our founding documents, such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, are a product of it.
April 17th, 2012
8:10 am
@another comment – You, like many of us prior to HOPE, had "skin in the game" so to speak, in other words, we were paying for our education and knew that it was important to get good grades and to finish as soon as possible. What is disturbing to me is the lack of initiative that many students display. Perhaps this article could be used as a "wake up" call for many in high school who have been "skating" through. @dekalbed – you are absolutely right about the lack of essays required but what shows through is the inability of many otherwise straight A students do not have the fundamental grasp of how to even write one. The one thing that bothers me about this article is that it appears that he was encouraged to attend a school that he was totally unprepared for and that perhaps Georgetown is to blame just as much as the school district who is not doing right by the students.
April 17th, 2012
8:21 am
This has a lot to do with grade inflation at inner city schools. The valedictorian at South Atlanta HS would be a C student at Walton HS in Cobb county. Lots of mainstream white kids lose out on admission to top colleges because affirmative action means unprepared black kids get those slots in the freshman classes.
April 17th, 2012
9:01 am
Teachers, like me, are being forced to stop challenging students to think.
I joined the profession to help students prepare for those big-time colleges. However, the "system" of education totally dissuades teachers from doing this.
In order to teach higher level thinking, teachers actually must plan more and be more creative. The "system" of education does not allow for that time.
The "system" of education only cares about students passing the most basic of standardized tests. These require the memorization of facts/definitions. No real analysis or in-depth thinking is needed.
Funding has been cut to the bone. This means that teachers cannot order advanced material. This means that the teachers workload increases to include work that used to be done by custodians, secretaries, etc.
Neither teachers or students are rewarded in any way for high level thinking. In fact, it is discouraged.
If I try to challenege my students to think at this point, I get angry emails from parents. The parents yell because their child has never been asked to think before and now they believe it unfair. These parents are only happy when their child makes an A by memorizing some facts.
This is what it has come to…..
April 17th, 2012
9:05 am
Truth in Moderation… that's the type of curriculum we should be teaching all of our kids! The "classical" model! But I've concluded that this isn't what the "foundation" of public ed wanted and the system isn't designed to do this… the system does not want kids to be able to do this and public schooling is deliberately designed to have them not to be able to do this … but, as much as that might have been good in the Industrial Age of our nation and the post-Industrial Age of our Nation; this model is not good for our country in the 21st century. We no longer have "cradle to grave" employment and the US faces stiff competition from elsewhere in the world. We need to return to this "classical" model…. Until all of us come to shift this paradigm, all of the dollars we are spending on public education are really not being used effectively and may be being used most ineffectively.
April 17th, 2012
11:12 am
@ Anonmom
You are preaching to the choir! I didn't want my children to be victims of the conspiracy….
This year, one of mine took a fabulous home school Speech and Debate class. By the end of it, the students were able to confidently orally present their opinion and back it up with facts and persuasion on the spot. They were taught principles of logic and had to make use of them. Students had a great time trying to challenge the opposing team's arguments. This is the perfect medium to develop logic and thinking skills in teenagers. This should be a required course for all high schoolers (even older middle schoolers).
April 17th, 2012
3:52 pm
Good for you, Darryl. It's not a very pleasant experience dropping a class because you find yourself ill-prepared…been there/done that, pal! However, I know you will view this setback simply as an opportunity to evaluate your tenacity; your willingness to go the extra mile(s) in attaining your goals and objectives…not only in chemistry class; not only in college/med school, but throughout your career. This is only the beginning, pal!
April 18th, 2012
5:23 pm
I was unprepared for college as well, even though I came from a public school system that was (at the time) considered one of the best. My classmates who attended private schools seemed better prepared, although it might have been partly due to the other opportunities they had had (overseas travel, exposure to the arts). I was solidly lower middle class.
I think everyone who enters a competitive college is in this situation to some extent. My child experienced it her freshman year, but she said the fact that she attended an International Baccalaureate program in (public) high school helped a great deal.She complained sometimes, but it was the best decision we could have made. The teachers and students were not constrained by "teaching to the test" – it was assumed that if they did OK in their classes, they had what they needed to pass GHSGT. They learned to think, which is a stated goal of IB.
She also learned to ask for help, talk to teachers, go to tutorials and submit the optional drafts, which has been invaluable in college.


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South Canterbury Finance auditor guilty of ethics breach
Byron Pearson, an Ashburton chartered accountant, has pleaded guilty to five amended charges of breaching industry codes of ethics relating to an audit of South Canterbury Finance's financial statements.
At a hearing held in Wellington yesterday, Mr Pearson pleaded guilty to the charges brought by the disciplinary tribunal of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants.
He was ordered to pay costs of $38,000 plus GST and has been banned from auditing a public issuer for five years with the exception of four non-specified companies on condition of a pre-signed external quality control review.
Mr Pearson was a partner in small Timaru-based Woodnorth Myers, responsible for auditing South Canterbury Finance's financial statements up until October 2009, when it was replaced by big four firm Ernst & Young, following a peer review.
A year later South Canterbury collapsed into receivership, triggering a $1.6 billion payout to investors under the Crown Retail Deposit Guarantee Scheme.
The charges
The five charges varied in substance but all related to the audit of financial statements of South Canterbury Finance for the six months ended December 31, 2008, according to the disciplinary tribunal decision.
The breaches included:
- Accepting assertions from SCF management that no collective provision for doubtful debts was required, when there was information available indicating otherwise;
- Failing to assess, evaluate and document uncorrected misstatements relating to provisions required on individual loans;
- Failing to document conclusions relating to the recognition and valuation of a hedging asset of $48 million;
- Failing to document conclusions as to whether swap transactions referred to in two letters from the BNZ were appropriately reflected;
- Failing to adequately document a basis for concluding that related party transactions did not breach the 35% exposure threshold referred to in SCF's Trust Deed;
- Failing to satisfy that related party transactions between Hornchurch Limited and SCF were properly disclosed; and
- Failing to exercise due care and diligence, in particular with regard to the recording of capitalised interest in the interest received of $114.48 million.
Public accountability
In his decision, Tribunal chairman Jim Hoare said the case involved issues of "public accountability, and the standing reputation of the profession and the Institute."
"The member lacked the required depth of experience and expertise of auditing in the finance industry, and the professional skepticism, to undertake an audit of the nature and complexity of South Canterbury Finance. This was exacerbated by the prevailing economic circumstances."
The institute said the charges related to Mr Pearson following deficiencies:
• his lack of professional skepticism and experience in reviewing loan values in an environment where there had been a substantial and rapid decline in asset values;
• his failure to adequately document the audit process and his findings, including aggregating the unadjusted misstatements; and
• his failure to identify disclosure deficiencies within the financial statements where they would have been identified under normal audit circumstances.
In his defence, Mr Pearson informed the Tribunal that he had attempted, without success, to obtain the assistance of an independent New Zealand-based auditor to act as the second partner reviewer on the audit.
The Tribunal accepted Mr Pearson's assurance that he had no intention of auditing a financial institution in future.
Restated accounts
South Canterbury's receivership followed a failed recapitalisation attempt, which gained increased urgency in April this year when South Canterbury revealed a loss of $198.6 million for the half year to December 31, with individually impaired loans surging to $598.24 million.
The company also had to restate its accounts for the year to June 2009, changing the reported loss of $57.8 million to a loss of $163 million.
Related party lending had blown out to $230.31 million, up from $170.2 million at the end of December and from $64.15 million as at June 2008.
The restatements came after South Canterbury's long-term auditor, Timaru-based Woodnorth Myers, was replaced by big four firm Ernst & Young.
Copies of two Woodnorth Myers letters, signed by Mr Pearson and sent to South Canterbury Finance were brought to the attention of the Securities Commission in December 2009.
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well no surprise on that one! when you look at the way the various businesses and trusts were actually run it really amounted to nothing short of period fraud - lucky that unlike the USA we dont have that law here - that said the fella in the article must have knowne all about it!
what about some more answers if you will
1. how come SCF & AH have ownership of Show Girls?? a strip club in AKLD - surely that was not amongst the info about how the company invests / investment strategy?
2. how come SCF has an interest over a high rise block yet to built in the Chatham islands??? oh please surely they did not think that would be a winner??
3. and what about the immigrant from Tehran of all places - he had a cafe here that failed, but so lucky for SCF investors SCF actually has a guarantee on the cafe he also owns in Tehran!!! i guess a quick trip over there to see if she was all good!
LOLOLOL - come on please, it must be time for this end!
Hey donkey, give the poor old guy a break! AH understood he was buying into a pig farm called Sow Girls.
But a high rise on the Chathams - yea, well that is a bit of a worrie....
Chatham high-rise
You can get that from secrecy - its called Chatham House rules - if you are bit dodgy in the hearing department!
Did SCF/AH own the business showgirls or the building that the business is in ????
Any answers
Look like the payments from SCF?AH are paramount, next to nothing.
The Institute of Accountants has a practice review process.
Why didn't they pick up in the review process that this guy was out of his depth?
Interesting .. in the NBR report above Pearson was ordered to pay costs of $38k plus GST .. in news reports elsewhere that has morphed into "Pearson has been fined $38k" .. A local sole-audit-practitioner was always going to be inadequate for a $2bn business .. it has overtones of a "tame-rubber-stamp" and audit-shoppping.
Looks like its open season for those who lost money on SCF pref shares to sue this auditor.
Hope his professional indemnity insurance is fully paid up.
It is the management letters from the auditors that I find scariest. Two letters 6 months apart, and almost nothing had changed. SCF's accountants were overworked and kept in the dark, the records were inaccurate and out of balance, the Board had no idea which loans were to related parties, and on and on. The letters had also been sent to the Trustee company, but the trustee apparently did nothing. Finally the Securities Commission wrote to the the Trustee saying What have you done about this mess? - tell us in the next 3 days. But we don't see the trustee's response.
These letters alone show that SCF was run as a mickey mouse outfit and none of the supposed grown-ups were taking responsibility. There should be enough negligence provable to drag everyone down.
Most Accountants and Auditors are usually signing when talking to someone. Multiple tasks?
Woodnorth Joyce is a Timaru Practice.
Myers Business Solutions is an Ashburton Practice.
The Companies Office records reveal that Mr Pearson is one of three directors in Myers Business Solutions Limited.
I would have thought that an entity as large as SCF would have had one of the international practices as its auditor.
However,AH as the historical owner of SCF,made that call.
If you undertake some research in regard to audits carried out offshore,you will discover that the names of international accounting practices are not exactly unassociated with perceived audit deficiencies.
As for Practice Review,this is a sampling process,and generally takes place each three years.
Do you know the dates of the Reviews carried out on this practice ?
It appears that in the case of practices who have an audit base,the institute is now using higher profile auditors tha historically was the case,which is essential in the light of the complexities of today.
As for taking legal action against the auditor of SCF,I suggest that you consider the limited progress to date in taking legalaction against the auditors of any of the failed finance companies.
Anyone who invested in SCF Perpetual Stock needed to understand the nature of the beast they were investing in.
It appears many did not,which clearly includes those selling these investments to the public,as evidenced by portfolios I have seen.
So what about the auditors of those other finance companies? Hanover, Strategic etc
@ Uncle Fred "so what about the others"
As someone who was "once in the job" you can be certain things are being done about the others. Whether those actions will see the light of day and be exercised in the public domain will be highly doubtful. Recently there was a Press Release by the peak-industry-council of Trustees which was an opening shot designed to distract attention away from themselves. Equally the Institute of Accountants will be managing the news on a drip-feed basis. It doesn't take 3 years to address this issue. The SCF investigation was not at the initiative of the Institute itself. While the Institute has expressed concern for its reputation and that of members it would enhance that view if it was being transparent and pro-active. Given the lapse of time one would think it could issue a press release announcing how many investigations have been conducted, anticipated publication, and how many are still in train.
The context about the Trustees in the above comment above is in respect to a news item published last week where the RBNZ pointed the finger at the failures of the Trustees of the Finance companies. The Trustees peak body then issued a press release pointing the finger at the failures of the Auditors of the Finance companies. The obvious question is who is the disciplinary body for the Trustee industry.
I am in no doubt that the insititute is undertaking Practice Reviews in regard to the audits of a number of finance companies.
I say that because in error I received an email in regard to such a matter which should have gone elsewhere.
I must say I am impressed that they are utilising the skills of the vastly experienced Bill Heritage in such reviews.
I resigned from all audits some years ago after a major run in on one audit with a board who refused to sign a management representation letter,which caused substantial friction which quite frankly was not worth the stress. of further involvement.
When you are requested to tender a price for what is a dangerous job,and if you state the facts in a report which the board do not want to accept,things come to a head.
Just as CEOs tend to railroad boards,the danger is also that the board will railroad an auditor.
Who would want to be an auditor ?
There are plenty of other work avenues in the commercial world.
From the other side of the fence. Some years ago I was recruited by a large NZ public company (who had their accounts qualified by one of the larger firms) to fix the problem and given a year to do so. Not hard. In the process I was exposed to the inner-most workings of the requirements of the auditors. And they weren't gentle. Hence I am not too sympathetic towards either the Institute for its lack of action, or the auditors involved in the Finance Company Audits. Perhaps I was fortunate the company took the situation seriously.
On a constructive note I cant understand why, given the industry wide systemic failure, the Government hasn't unleashed the weight of the Auditor General on the issue.
Sometimes you have to do things differently and think outside the box. Sometimes following protocols doesnt produce results, and having regard to professional sensitivities produces un-acceptable unintended consequences
What does this actually mean ? This one man band accountant has been censured by the same body who "fined" the Earnest & Young auditor running the Feltex audit ! It is odd to me that people are saying a bigger firm is better, especially now that Earnest & Young were appointed to audit SCF ! co-incidence !
This is what you are dealing with :-
SCF was not the first to fail, yet the Auditor of SCF is the first of the Finance Company auditors to be pinged
And the Ernst & Young partner was pinged $150,000 while Pearson copped $38,000. No explanation of the difference. The Institute is not very transparent
And still would like to know who is the disciplinary organisation or reponsible body for oversight of the Trustee industry. Cone of Silence so far.
Not quite correct.
You overlook the auditors of National Finance[2000] and Nathans.
I suppose Dave Fraser and Kiwi hardly counts as it is a minnow.
Perhaps E & Y were levied a larger amount on the same basis that a professional would traditionally charge a higher fee to a doctor than a plumber.


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