Technology: November 2006 Archives

30,000,000 Lines Of Code? WTF?

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Apparently (according to this) Mac Office is 30,000,000 lines of code, that’s a lot of code to try to keep bug free! Out of curiosity, I downloaded a utility to count lines of code and found that RvSnoop is only ~7,000 lines of code. That’s only counting non-comment lines, I don’t know how well commented the MS codebase is.

Not that there’s any real comparison in functionality between the two of course!

Killing Capitals in iTunes

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The latest version of iTunes has made several changes to the UI (again), most of them not for the better as can be read about here.

Still, at least one of the annoyances, the use of all capitals for section headings in the source list, can be easily corrected. The section headings are stored as localizable strings in a resource file; so first shut down iTunes, then just open the /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Localizable.strings in a text editor (e.g. TextMate) and search for the following lines:

"135.011" = "LIBRARY";
"135.012" = "DEVICES";
"135.013" = "STORE";
"135.014" = "PLAYLISTS";

these need changing to:

"135.011" = "Library";
"135.012" = "Devices";
"135.013" = "Store";
"135.014" = "Playlists";

or anything else that you like. Now when you restart iTunes it should all look better.

Update:

You also want to change this line:

"135.006" = "SHARED";

to this:

"135.006" = "Shared";