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Suppose you have a whole bunch of data in a Core Data document. How would you choose to export that data to HTML? Would you use XSLT? Would you just do a flat dump of the file? Would you manually create the HTML virtually line by line?

Sometimes, I'm simply amazed at the gall of some people. Keep your money. There are far, far, far better ways to spend $85. And that's all I really have to say about that…

I wonder if this company knew of my former company. Hmmmm… Incidentally, I hope to have some news to report here about PulpFiction. Suffice to say, someone who actually develops software instead of buying it and doing nothing with it for over a year may be interested in getting it back from the current owner…

I'm editing a book for O'Reilly right now on CSS. As a technical editor on CSS Cookbook, I'm sure you can imagine what I'm doing now… It's amazing how many useful things I've simply forgotten to do. The re-discovery of the <fieldset> tag, wow! And simple things like access keys that I should be including […]

If you're interested in beta testing some Mac golf statistics software, head on over to the forums at Cynical Peak and sign up. Obviously, requirements include being a golfer and having a machine running Mac OS X 10.4. I can tell you a bit more as well, including: The name of the application is "Scorecard." […]

I have a 96-minute MP3 from the 2004 O'Reilly Mac OS X conference in which Brent Simmons says "NetNewsWire Sucks, PulpFiction is the Bomb!" It occurs at 42:35, for those who have the MP3, and I'll spare you the full-length disclaimer and simply state the obvious: Brent is not speaking for himself, the quote is […]

A friend of mine is in need of a web-based PHP/MySQL inventory management software package. The requirements are listed below. Ideally, any software packages (open source, commercial, etc.) would either meet most or all of the requirements or be easily hacked (open source stuff only, I suppose) to allow for the addition of some features. […]

Just an update from my previous post on the new (if nearly a year old is still "new") owner of Freshly Squeezed Software. In addition to some legal issues between he and a former partner, Don became ill and had a few other things all go wrong at the same time. I was able to […]

A local college, Gannon University, is having a Computer Programming Contest. The contest rules say that "Entries can be written in any programming language," which is great, but they continue the sentence "as long as they are executable on a PC running a LINUX or Windows operating system." While I'd like to think that they […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. 😉

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 […]

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, […]

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