I usually just complain here, which isn't really good for me, or the 5 people who read it. Here is the first (of hopefully a few) somewhat constructive update:

October 17, 2009
OS X: If you use NSMenu and NSMenuItem...

This one took a bit to track down. Here is a crash trace, so that if anybody out there googles for it, they will find this post:

0   com.apple.CoreFoundation      	0x94563084 CFRetain + 36
1   com.apple.HIToolbox           	0x90e99438 RetainEventParamData + 90
2   com.apple.HIToolbox           	0x90e991cb SetEventParameter + 233
3   com.apple.HIToolbox           	0x90edff75 SendMenuPopulate + 189
4   com.apple.HIToolbox           	0x90edfe73 PopulateMenu + 63
5   com.apple.HIToolbox           	0x90eebcd6 SearchCacheEntries + 348
6   com.apple.HIToolbox           	0x90eeb86c SearchCache + 316

If you use NSMenuItem directly and assign a submenu to it using [parentMenu setSubmenu:forItem:], be sure to use [parentMenu setSubmenu:nil forItem:...] before releasing the NSMenuItem or parentMenu.

It appears that there's some internal system cache of NSMenuItems (for keyboard shortcuts etc), and simply removing the menu item doesnt invalidate that cache, which can cause random crashes on some systems, though it might be fixed for 10.6.

October 17, 2009
OS X, continued.

I know I said I wasn't going to complain, and it's moot anyway since we use ICC on OS X now, but why can't you target 10.4 with GCC-LLVM? *cry*.

I've spent so much time on getting everything nice on OS X, for REAPER v3.13. I think it's paying off. Schwa says "it is like walking through mud." I tend to agree -- it's 95% "ugh" and 5% "woot". To be fair I'm sure Win32 was similar for me, back in the day, but I guess I didn't have much of an alternative (before that I had done some Xlib stuff that was not particularly enjoyable).

October 17, 2009
Windows 7

I'm not one to shill, I try to avoid wearing t-shirts with logos on them (except maybe when patching my roof).. And I know Microsoft is doing some strange things in marketing, but I have to say that Windows 7 is really awesome. On newer, decent multicore systems, I am finding it vastly superior to XP. Congrats, MS. I found installing it on the my eeepc (upgraded ram to 2gb) worked. Only (?) took about 10gb of disk.

If you have a ReadyNAS, you might need to set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa LmCompatibilityLevel = 2 to let you access it via SMB.