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Apple Employee Silenced by Self

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

I’m disappointed to see that Buzz Andersen has decided not to go through with a CocoaRadio interview he was slated for. He’s entitled to make his own choices, but I just think this is ridiculous. Apple is not an oppressive authoritarian regime. It’s a company. A place you work for. A place that pays you […]

Quickly Find Project Files in Xcode

Sunday, November 6th, 2005

I like the Search-Fieldy kind of thing in Xcode. If you select the top-level project item in the “Groups and Files”, and then enter something in the search box, it makes it really easy to pinpoint a particular file that is contained by your project. Apple even gave this search box thingy a keyboard shortcut, […]

Startup School Podcast

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

A few weeks ago, a relatively low-key, one day convention took place in Cambridge, MA. The event, put on by the unconventional Y Combinator venture group, was dubbed “Startup School.” Essentially a one-day lecture series in which a number of high-caliber computer and business industry players gave short speeches and answered Q&A from an audience […]

Fixing Keychain – Look Ma, No Code!

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005

While waiting for Apple to fix the many bugs that I described in my recent posting, I thought I’d hack in with Interface Builder and fix some of my gripes myself. For the benefit of anybody who shares my grievances, I describe the process here for fixing several of the problematic behaviors. Note: This is […]