Posted in Software Development on February 11th, 2006 7 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Software Development on January 16th, 2006 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Software Development on January 3rd, 2006 1 Comment »
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.
Posted in Software Development on December 19th, 2005 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Software Development on December 15th, 2005 3 Comments »
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, [...]
Posted in Software Development on December 14th, 2005 1 Comment »
If you're a Flash developer, I have a few questions and perhaps a small proposition for you. Please IM me.
Posted in Software Development on December 3rd, 2005 7 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Software Development on November 30th, 2005 1 Comment »
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. [...]
Posted in Software Development on November 22nd, 2005 No Comments »
For later reference, "Building an Automator Action."
Posted in Software Development on November 20th, 2005 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Software Development on November 18th, 2005 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Software Development on November 3rd, 2005 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Software Development on October 31st, 2005 7 Comments »
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. [...]
Posted in Software Development on October 26th, 2005 No Comments »
Posted in Software Development on October 24th, 2005 2 Comments »
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 [...]