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	About Belkadan Software W3C XHTML 1.0 W3C CSS 2.0 Code by Hand IE7 Enhanced Get Apple Safari Get Mozilla Firefox Belkadan Software is a one-person development team (with help from others) that creates various (mostly Mac) programs. Because the process is free, the programs are as well. Jediknil, the person behind Belkadan Software, is known in the Real World as Jordy Rose, a long-time Mac user and current student at UC Berkeley. For suggestions, comments, bug reports, etc., email jediknil@belkadan.com. These programs (and the site) wouldn't exist without a few people, companies, and organizations, including the GIMP as a free image editor, Mscape Software for their Iconographer program, InterfaceLIFT (formerly XIcons) and The Iconfactory for various icons, W3Schools for help with various web languages, Dean Edwards' IE compatibility scripts, notestips.com for the CSS-only link buttons, Cocoa Dev Central for their great tutorials, the CocoaDev wiki as a treasury of information, Sun Microsystems for the Java language, and Apple Computer, for the Cocoa API, Xcode and the rest of the developer tools, and the computers themselves. Of course, I should be thanking many more people, but I can't possibly fit them all in here. As far as using my work, you can use and modify the source code in your own products, free or proprietary. I would prefer that you quote Belkadan Software somewhere in your own finished program; however I will not require it for simple reasons of practicality. (As far as I can tell these programs are GPL compatible, being under a modified version of the X License). Please don't steal outright, however; you may not download these programs (in source or binary form) and then sell them to others. The Belkadan Software blog, "`-dealloc`", was created a few years after Belkadan Software, when jediknil/Jordy realized he had things to say (and when the domain was reverse-spammed). The name came from the Memory Management Programming Guide for Cocoa, which had the following to say about the `-dealloc` method. In general the idea was the double meaning of "freeing memory," in this case in the manner of the Pensieve in Harry Potter. The role of the dealloc method is to to (sic) free the object's own memory, and dispose of any resources it holds, including its object instance variables. The blog software and the server deserve a few thank-yous of their own, to PHP.net for the language and the reference, to the MySQL Developer Zone, for the database and the reference, to the Apache Software Foundation for the HTTP server that's providing access to this entire site, and to my friends Patrick and Kevin for donating their old computer and case (respectively) to be used as a server for all three of us. The quote on the front page comes from Apple's original "Think Different" ad. The name "Belkadan" refers to a certain planet in Star Wars on the edge of the known galaxy. The planet was one of the first conquered by the alien Yuuzhan Vong, mysterious extra-galactic invaders who seemingly lived outside the Force. The planet's ecosystem was modified to become a production world, and it remained a stronghold for almost the entire war. See The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime for more information. Those of you who observed that the initials are "B.S." should note that this is entirely unrelated.

About Belkadan Software

Belkadan Software is a one-person development team (with help from others) that creates various (mostly Mac) programs. Because the process is free, the programs are as well. Jediknil, the person behind Belkadan Software, is known in the Real World as Jordy Rose, a long-time Mac user and current student at UC Berkeley. For suggestions, comments, bug reports, etc., email jediknil@belkadan.com.

These programs (and the site) wouldn't exist without a few people, companies, and organizations, including the GIMP as a free image editor, Mscape Software for their Iconographer program, InterfaceLIFT (formerly XIcons) and The Iconfactory for various icons, W3Schools for help with various web languages, Dean Edwards' IE compatibility scripts, notestips.com for the CSS-only link buttons, Cocoa Dev Central for their great tutorials, the CocoaDev wiki as a treasury of information, Sun Microsystems for the Java language, and Apple Computer, for the Cocoa API, Xcode and the rest of the developer tools, and the computers themselves. Of course, I should be thanking many more people, but I can't possibly fit them all in here.

As far as using my work, you can use and modify the source code in your own products, free or proprietary. I would prefer that you quote Belkadan Software somewhere in your own finished program; however I will not require it for simple reasons of practicality. (As far as I can tell these programs are GPL compatible, being under a modified version of the X License). Please don't steal outright, however; you may not download these programs (in source or binary form) and then sell them to others.

The Belkadan Software blog, "-dealloc", was created a few years after Belkadan Software, when jediknil/Jordy realized he had things to say (and when the domain was reverse-spammed). The name came from the Memory Management Programming Guide for Cocoa, which had the following to say about the -dealloc method. In general the idea was the double meaning of "freeing memory," in this case in the manner of the Pensieve in Harry Potter.

The role of the dealloc method is to to (sic) free the object's own memory, and dispose of any resources it holds, including its object instance variables.

The blog software and the server deserve a few thank-yous of their own, to PHP.net for the language and the reference, to the MySQL Developer Zone, for the database and the reference, to the Apache Software Foundation for the HTTP server that's providing access to this entire site, and to my friends Patrick and Kevin for donating their old computer and case (respectively) to be used as a server for all three of us.

The quote on the front page comes from Apple's original "Think Different" ad.

The name "Belkadan" refers to a certain planet in Star Wars on the edge of the known galaxy. The planet was one of the first conquered by the alien Yuuzhan Vong, mysterious extra-galactic invaders who seemingly lived outside the Force. The planet's ecosystem was modified to become a production world, and it remained a stronghold for almost the entire war. See The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime for more information.

Those of you who observed that the initials are "B.S." should note that this is entirely unrelated.