What I love about the web and blogging is the chaotic and largely egalitarian nature of publicity and “exposure” that the medium offers. In 2005, a computer programmer of modest means can fire up MarsEdit and get a message to the world as quickly as he or she can type it. Some of you who […]

I ran into a search problem recently in one of my Xcode projects. Every time I conducted a particular search (in this case, the search term was “CFString”), my screen was littered with a series of cascading Xcode exception dialogs that look like this: On the one hand, it’s great that Xcode goes out of […]

The main reasons I write in this blog are for the fame and the glory. These will come some day, won’t they? Running a close third is the fact that, as I accumulate entries in this repository, the articles become part of the “Internet Reference Book,” upon which we all rely for “instant and easy […]

How many times have you been bitten by the problem of moving a window in Interface Builder, for easier editing, and then neglecting to put it back before saving it? Sometimes this can pop up as an embarrassing bug when you realize that your preferences have been saving an appropriate location for the window, but […]