The Cocotron is now online

What if you could take your Mac OS X Objective-C Xcode project and with the click of a button compile it for Windows ? This is what The Cocotron is all about.

The Cocotron is an open source (MIT license) implementation of an Objective-C API which strongly resembles the Foundation and AppKit API's.

The Cocotron Developer Tools are gcc 4.0.3 based cross-compilers which plug into Xcode and allow you to compile your Objective-C projects for Windows (and others) using Xcode native targets.

There are over 400 classes and, well, one example. More to come.

David Young and myself have been working on this on and off for many many years. Recently the planets aligned and I am now able to release it as open source.

Happy Holidays!

Christmas Carols at 2.4ghz

The other night after putting my son to sleep I put down my laptop and picked up my wifes laptop to transfer some files to her laptop from mine. During the transfer I noticed noise on the baby monitor and how it was corresponding to the transfers. I had put my laptop right up against the monitor and the monitor was picking up the wireless activity. The baby monitor operates at 900Mhz and has not interefered with the wireless but this time it was picking it up when placed in very particular locations right up against the machine.

Not thinking much of it I remembered the video of a scanner playing Beethoven and thought of doing something seasonal. So I whipped up a little program to generate orchestrated network traffic.

We Wish You A Merry Christmas and Jingle Bells in static major.



Made on a MacBook Pro.

All Wheel Drive will not save your ass

This is one of the rotating images on http://www.saabusa.com

James Kim was driving a Saab 9-2X (AWD) in the mountains of Oregon. I find the "lattice o' coincidence" in the marketing and the tragedy disturbing.

I went to a Deftones concert ...

and all I got was this t-shirt.


I am sure I am not the first person to make this observation, but camera phones have replaced lighters at concerts.