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Why John Siracusa is right. Currently there is a already more than 30 messages long discussion on cocoa-dev about how to implement a singleton – the most simple design pattern known – in Obj-C. Apple is missing a garbage-collected language!

Update: Also see the article “Can Apple do Better than Objective-C?” from Nitesh Dhanjani at macdevcenter.

I have now moved the Cyberduck source to a subversion repository using cvs2svn. The head of the repository can now be checked out using
svn co http://svn.cyberduck.ch/svn/cyberduck/trunk or a specific branch using for example svn co http://svn.cyberduck.ch/svn/cyberduck/branches/release-2-5-2.

cvs2svn Statistics:
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Total CVS Files: 3155
Total CVS Revisions: 27819
Total Unique Tags: 6
Total Unique Branches: 34
CVS Repos Size in KB: 126719
Total SVN Commits: 1647
First Revision Date: Mon Feb 10 21:12:49 2003
Last Revision Date: Sun Nov 27 15:04:31 2005


Welcome to the 23rd localization of Cyberduck which is Welsh by Iwan Standley. Anyone knows of another Mac OS X application which comes in that many languages?

• [Bugfix] Spinning beachball of death when connecting on some systems
• [Bugfix] Better validating drop targets in browser

In der aktuellen Ausgabe (47/05) des metamac Magazin ist ein Interview mit mir zu finden. Der Auszug aus dem Heft mit dem Interview hier zum lesen.

Opensourcemac.org just launched but they seem to attract many visitors already when I look at the referrer statistics of cyberduck.ch.

This map shows the visitors of the cyberduck.ch website (taken from Google Analytics).

• [Feature] Dragging files to application icon will upload to frontmost browser
• [Feature] Printing browser view
• [Feature] Universal Binary
• [Bugfix] Child items not refreshed properly in outline view
• [Bugfix] Warning before overwrite when moving or renaming files
• [Bugfix] Dragging files to the Finder.app places them at the dropped position
• [Bugfix] Always selecting parent directory as drop target when dragging to outline view
• [Bugfix| Updated application and document icon
• [Bugfix] Number of files in browser window not displayed correctly
• [Bugfix] Don’t recurse into directories when deleting symbolic links
• [Bugfix] Overwriting group writable files

Cyberduck 2.5.1 is now distributed as a universal binary for both the PPC and Intel architectures.

I am now working on my diploma thesis “Ubiquitous GIS client” which will bring 3D visualized geographical data to handhelds including GPS positioning.