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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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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, […]

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). […]

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 […]

It's now available.

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 […]

And so it goes. Today, PulpFiction gets a leg up, unencumbered by the behemoth. 😉

Wil Shipley is getting a bunch of flak for saying "Unit Testing is shit" (paraphrased, but pretty close). My take: Though we didn't employ much unit testing on any Freshly Squeezed Software products, I do feel that unit testing is great for libraries and other non-UI pieces of software, including the non-UI portions of any […]

Hey, it's no longer "my" software, but I still had quite a hand in shaping the application, and so I'm proud of the "VIII" that PulpFiction got in the Ars review. Of course, no review would be complete if there weren't some weird issues, like this: I found no way to group my feeds into […]

Rock Star works with iTunes 5. I just tried it. I haven't played Rock Star in weeks! It's still fun!

I guess that was the end of the line for them. When looking for the crash QotD on my own blog for the previous post, I found this old post about Bleu Rose and their "public notice" to the Mac community that they were going to stop developing for the Mac. Seems they actually stopped […]

Leave it to Unsanity. Earlier this year I mentioned in a QotD that I was "still hoping Apple provides a way for an application to provide contact information for the developer so that we, not frickin' Apple, get the crash reports." Now we can, with Smart Crash Reports. Of course, SCR is not ideal as […]