Code signing is a technology for associating a cryptographically secure signature with your application’s executable code. This signature makes it possible for the operating system or other services to make confident assumptions of authenticity based on the unique signature which you’ve supplied. Thus, code signing is a technology which is rather useless in itself, but […]

Manton and I are still at it. We’ve heard the feedback, some of it lukewarm, some of it intentionally discouraging, but most of it extremely enthusiastic. We’re proud to announce the immediate availability of episode 3, where we talk about WWDC, MobileMe, iPhone 3G, and a bunch of relatively unrelated stuff. Check us out!

Last year Scott Stevenson put together a fun event at the Apple store during the week of WWDC, and invited me to participate. We talked about a variety of indie Mac issues, and also took questions from the audience. The great news is Scott is doing another event this year: Tuesday, 7PM at the Apple […]

Like the rest of the Mac nerd world, I saw the announcement of SquirrelFish as very promising and inspiring news. The WebKit team has redesigned its JavaScript parser, emphasizing speed performance by switching from a parsed-tree system to a bytecode-interpreted system. The result is a much faster system that apparently offers the promise of even […]