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Don Yacktman

Has anyone seen or heard from Don Yacktman in the past, oh, three months? How about the past month? Week?
I have a vested interest in knowing what the heck is going on with Don due to the fact that he owns what was once my company, and the fact that he hasn't appeared to do [...]

Take Not(a)e!

A long-time MacPal Pro of mine has finished up one of his first desktop software apps, Notae. It's a $15 desktop notepad similar, I suppose, to VoodooPad. It's well-crafted and it looks great.
Notae can import, edit, classify, search, and export your notes. It's Cocoa-based, so a lot comes "free" including support for .doc and .xls [...]

I have an Apple Developer hardware discount and I won't be using it. It expires at the end of February.
In a completely unrelated note, I have a PayPal account and I also happen to like iTunes gift certificates.

Upload Files with PHP

Just about every PHP developer I know has written code that will allow users to upload files. I wrote one a long time ago for weims.net (I'd link to it if I hadn't stopped working on the site a few years ago).
I typically begin any new "upload" code by looking around the Web for example [...]

Ollieman has ported some of his NetNewsWire themes over to PulpFiction (and another reader called Vienna). They look great, and I've begun using the "Citizen Kubrick Mini" theme as my main theme since he notified me that he'd ported the themes earlier this evening. Ollie, however, takes a little shot at PulpFiction in his post, [...]

Seeking Flash Developer

If you're a Flash developer, I have a few questions and perhaps a small proposition for you. Please IM me.

On Drunken Haxies

The fellow over at "business on the mac" sums up my thoughts on haxies quite well. While I too generally respect the Drunken Comic Book Figure, I too disagreed vehemently with him on this topic. As the author there says, "DB's obviously never developed, sold and supported a consumer software product…"
I still run a haxie-free [...]

AJAX

I used AJAX today. This tutorial helped.
I cheated, though. My data is fetched from a PHP script. I didn't want to create and return valid XML because parsing is such a PITA, so my PHP script just returns a big ol' HTML string. Then I use the request's responseText instead of parsing the responseXML.
Hee hee. [...]

For later reference, "Building an Automator Action."

Those who IMed regarding that "Big Cocoa Project" mentioned earlier this month should IM me again today.
The person I chose to do it has yet to complete the first stage (just a few mockups), and if I do no hear from him today, I'm going to go with someone else. Availability today (for at least [...]

A Better NSLog()

Nothing could be better than this NSLog();, but, well, forget it: I'm unable to make this funny.
MLog improves on Cocoa's NSLog() by adding in the name of the source file and the line number from which the NSLog() call is made. In other words,
MLogString(@"logged!"); produces:
2005-02-13 20:06:07.582 MyApp[1465] main.m:15 logged!
Helpful! Which, sadly, is more than I [...]

Big Cocoa Project

Over the next few months, I'll have a large Cocoa project with which I'll need some help. In fact, I may need someone to do a good bit of the work.
This is a paying gig - $25 to $30k for six months of work (that's padded from what it should take - about four). If [...]

Here's a loud, loud vote in favor of Saft adding an "unsupported" mode - and the option to invoke it following a software update that bumps Safari.
I'm tired of waiting up to 24 hours just to get a new version of Saft that more than likely does nothing new but support a slightly newer Safari. [...]

It's now available.

PCalc 3

PCalc 3, the best calculator, like, EVAR, is now available. Many don't know that James worked on one of the first versions of the Mac OS X Dock before returning to one of his other products, DragThing. I used to use DragThing, but I haven't since Mac OS X rolled into town (and particularly since [...]

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