Archive for the 'Apple' Category
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
I am happy to announce that MarsEdit and Black Ink are now available for purchase on Apple’s Mac App Store. As I expected, the Mac App Store is both an exciting new platform for reaching new customers, and a somewhat frustrating and difficult to explain territory when it comes to existing customers who are interested […]
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Saturday, November 20th, 2010
When I first started working at Apple, I was 18 years old. I was going to school at UC Santa Cruz and studying to be a computer programmer. Like my dad. I was lucky to end up as a Quality Assurance tester inside a software development group at Apple. I worked for the Software Update […]
Posted in Apple, Folklore, Nostalgia | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
After the announcement earlier this year that C4 was cancelled, I had a hard time getting too excited about conferences. My feelings about Apple’s WWDC are ambivalent: it’s an impressive production and a great opportunity to meet up with dozens or hundreds of colleagues, but it’s expensive and simply lacks the heart of smaller conferences. […]
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
I finally updated to Xcode 3.2.3. I was a little late because I had other priorities, but I wanted to get my iPhone projects building and installing onto my iPhone OS 4.0 devices, so I decided to download and install the latest SDK. Unfortunately, this seemingly minor update presented a major failure in my debug […]
Posted in Apple, Cocoa, Debugging, Xcode | 12 Comments »