I am extremely impressed with the Ruby programming language. Here are a couple of links to get you started:
Ruby is an easy language to learn. It has a very consistent syntax. It is fully object-oriented. It comes pre-installed on Mac OS X.
OK, this is cool… The SQLite database libraries and command-line tool are included with Tiger.
I installed the OS X 10.4.1 update on my Dual G5 at work this morning. One of the changes involves a notification when the user installs a Dashboard widget. I think this is appropriate because the new widget framework is pretty powerful and you want to make that you know when you are installing one. Even without this notification, I feel the widget mechanism is still secure because even if you were to click on a link that causes a widget to be downloaded and you didn’t realize that is what you did, the widget is still not activated unless and until you expressly choose to make it an active, running widget.
This version also contains various updates to .Mac synching, Address Book, and Safari.
I joined the Association for Computing Machinery today. I should say rejoined, as I was a member back in the Shell days. A couple of neat benefits to ACM membership include:
The best and most comprehensive review today for Apple‘s new operating system, OS X 10.4 “Tiger” is available here.
It is written by John Siracusa. His article does a wonderful job of explaining some of the major new features in Tiger and it recommended reading.