Back in my first days at Apple, I was privileged to work with brilliant engineers (and a few idiots, lest I get too nostalgic). One of these brilliant types, who I might go so far as to describe as a mentor, had a mantra he’d throw out when anybody started whining about the difficulty of […]

I really love this guy’s way of communicating powerful, knock you out of your rut ideas. I guess these are what he calls “reboot your brain” ideas. I often like to repeat an idea he raised during a radio interview I heard with him in San Francisco. He was being interviewed by Marty Nemko on […]

From time to time, I get dragged into the Mac OS X Console application. Either it’s because I’m printing debugging output via NSLog and Xcode has suddenly stopped showing it in the “Run” window, or I’ve just started seeing some wiggy stuff happen with my computer and I need to check under the hood. What […]

Anybody who has dabbled with CoreAudio programming on the Mac is probably familiar with the indispensable MTCoreAudio framework, by Michael Thornburgh. The framework makes it easy for Cocoa programmers to harness the power of CoreAudio’s HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) by wrapping some of the major components in Objective-C wrapper objects. What has Thornburgh been up […]