I've sometimes struggled with a recurring phantom linker error. Linker errors which insist that certain functions are missing, when they are clearly present in the project, and I can see they are being compiled. There are many common reasons for this error, but here's another one, I had to figure out for myself: If you [...]

I've been checking out iWork 08 to see if it's a usable (and cheap) office suite for Mac, to replace the horrible alternatives: Microsoft Office OpenOffice (my preferred, but it doesn't run with native Mac OS X gui) NeoOffice – the OpenOffice with native Mac OS X gui code, but which is unfortunately horribly ugly [...]

O'Reilly, of geek book fame, has an online subscription service called Safari, that allows you to pay $40 per month, and then get full access to over 4000 computer books and other goodies. It's worth mentioning that it's not only O'Reillys own books, but also Microsoft Press, Sams, Prentice, Addison-Wesley and others. I decided to [...]