I’m with Janzen…10 minutes…gone.

So, how was the conference everyone?

I went in ’02 and ’03, and am dying to know what happened at Battle of the Geeks this year.

Has anyone podcasted it or put up an MP3 somewhere?

CK.

Obviously, ‘codi’ comes from the dialect of Latin spoken after the birth of Christ. This may not seem like a big difference, but when the “astronomers” saw the intensity of the star marking Jesus’ birth, they changed several facets of the language, since it fulfilled a prophecy (but not about Jesus). ‘Codi’ here means ‘to fish’, according to most linguists best hypotheses. Of course, it could have also been taken from the very early Latin, in which it would have meant ‘big water’.

In case you haven’t caught it yet, the above is a lie. Here’s my real post:

IT’S A F***** JOKE! Veni, vidi, vici: ancient adage or something. Veni, vidi, codi: funny play on words, not to be overthought or overinterpreted.

This reminds me of the period between the release of Halo 1 and Halo 2. Fans super-over-analyzed everything Bungie said, which lead to incorrect trains of thought.

Let me guarantee you, there is no hidden message about a new product encoded by Steve himself in the shirt’s message.

Sheesh. Thanks for wasting ten minutest of my life.

I enjoyed your disscussion of texts tremendously, thanks. However, I would bet the T-shirt designers intented, “I coded.” Your interpretation is a great example of their unintneded–not consequences–perhaps, unintended (not to be redundant) Freudian slip.

lol.

There is no verb “caud-” or “cod-” that I (or my Latin dictionary) know. The best way to convey “I write code” would use “notare” (as Suetonius and Quinitilian did) So “veni, vidi, notavi” is “I came, I saw, I wrote code”.

However, …

The root “caud-” (and written later as “cod-”) involves “tail”. So “Veni. Vidi codas” might mean “I came. I saw you pricks”.

I claim first!

A lot of that just seems like irrelevant information you’re throwing in to impress readers. I really don’t know why you introduced the subject of the Bible and what form it takes (codex form vs. roll form) since it seems to have no place in this ’scholarly discussion.’ On top of that, the different details you decide to dwell on make me wonder if you’re PhD’s actually coming from the University of the DaVinci Code.

I have a hard time believing intellectuals in the field would actually refer to the group of uncanonical gospels as “gnostic gospels” - especially when some of them, particularly the Gospel of Mary (I imagine you mean Mary Magdalene) - contained little if any discussion on Gnosis. That would stand in contrast to, say, the Gospel of St. James, which is quite heavily gnostic in its nature.

Eitherway, I think the other posters have it right. I don’t think the T-shirt designers over at Apple had anything so subtle or clever in mind. They majored in graphic design, not classical literature. In designing a T-shirt for a group of “professional software developers” (who, by nature of their profession, code quite often) they imagined that “I came, I saw, I coded.” would be a cute tagline that would resonate with the T-shirt wearers. And it would seem from this thread that, for the most part, it has.

codex is latin for block of wood — The name given to a manuscript in leaf form, distinguishing it from a roll. The codex seems to have come into use about the beginning of the fourth century; the material ordinarily employed in it was parchment, but discovery has shown that papyrus was sometimes used in the making of codices, though really too brittle to be a satisfactory material. The great manuscripts of the Bible are in codex form and generally of parchment; hence the name, Codex Vaticanus etc. Not all texts were codified and considered in the codex. Some texts, in reference to biblical history for example, were consided gnostic in nature. The Gospel of Mary is an example of this. I reference the Codex Vaticanus, because it is the oldest (nearly) complete copy of the Greek Bible in existence.

Continuing…

I don’t believe that there were computers as we know them in the 1st to 4th century (of course cryptography). I would expect that their understanding at that time was “to code” was to create a particular designation of a set of documents and codify them - a process of collecting and restating the law of a jurisdiction in certain areas.

While I would grant you that the use of “to code” today has many different understandings from “to create a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)” to “In computer programming, the word code refers to instructions to a computer in a programming language.” In context of the phrase,is Apple referring to programming alone or is there a subtle meaning here.

While I came, I saw, I coded works, how many hours did you really spend coding at WWDC as compared to reviewing new API’s or “rules or principles or laws” which will be used in 10.4 and xcode 3.0 and were shown as a preview of the 10.5 codex?

By extension, an API is the specific method prescribed by a computer operating system or by another application program by which a programmer writing an application program can make requests of the operating system or another application. WWDC is the major event for Apple to communicate with developers the current and new APIs prescribed for current and future products/directions.

Developers did not pick up a block of wood, or a bunch of parchment on the first day. Instead they picked up the modern version — a DVD. That DVD is a preview of these new set of rules or principles or laws which will goven and prepare you for the real coding you will do after WWDC. That DVD is a pre-view of the 10.5 codex.

The idea of “sacred texts” is a play on this idea. Developers who came to WWDC, were treated to see some, and not all, of the 10.5 codex APIs as Steve pointed out. Those currently “blessed by Apple” where shown.

Based on your explanation, you don’t appear to know Latin very well.

“Codi” is no form of “codex.”

“I came. I saw. I coded.”

(Of course, Caesar wouldn’t have known a word for a process that didn’t exist in his day - coding.)

nope on the joking. I think they should have used the Latin word for Apple — “I came and saw Apple.” WWDC is not like a big code jam, where we are all coding our hearts out.

BTW - I know Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic and Latin. I’m working on a Ph. D. So when I saw the phrase, I noticed the issue.

The shirt is just a playful variation on Caesar, and “codi” is meant to be read — jokingly — as “I code.”

veni and vidi — to come, to see. codi is not code. Codi or codex — a code of laws; accounting book; writing tablet. Laws as in manuscripts or scriptures - due to Christianity. Apple developers as devoted to the cause as we are, could read it as “I came and saw the sacred texts”

The phrase is Latin and was originally veni, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I concered (won)).

Remember the frozen sculpture, that made martinis? Pour the grog in the top, and it slid through its innards, and came out alcohololicious. Mmmmm…martini……

But, hey, a laptop bag can be useful. As laptop bags go, it’s a fairly nice compact bag. Not overly protective, but fairly well so considering the lack of bulk. And it’s got a nice fuzzy soft interior to keep the scratches away. Not enough pockets for daily use by me, though, unfortunately.

And yes, the WWDC is almost free… you pay for the goodies!

Though I did twice get in for free, but that was on a competitive award basis.

CK.

I hope apple releases a public beta of Leopard… that would be excellent.

^.^