Archive for: July 2006
§ ¶Vestigial Resource Forks
“Resource forks are so 1990s.”
That may be, but it’s funny how they stick around in OS X, hanging on to data files like dryer lint.
I’ve been cleaning up a project archive so that I can move it into svn instead of doing ad hoc, zip-the-entire-folder style backups. The trick is that many of the files aren’t plain text files: there are Photoshop source images, AppleScripts, REALbasic project files… all kinds of stuff.
svn can handle text and binary files just fine, but it doesn’t pay any attention to resource forks. That’s the main reason I haven’t moved the archive over sooner.
But in OS X, resource forks are a deprecated technology, right? How pervasive can these things still be?
(more)§ ¶Bicycling in Seattle
I lost my Seattle bike map months ago and haven’t replaced it because I never get downtown to the Dept. of Transportation offices. Well, it turns out you can request a copy online, and the city will mail it to you for free.