An interesting commentary today from John Gruber on independent programmers and the alluring goal of achieving “The Life.“ Gruber makes some great points about the not-so-simple criteria that define “ultimate success” for an indie programmer, observing that support responsibilities for one-person shows can be crippling. It’s almost enough to make a developer pray for obscurity. […]

A lot of people like to complain about how Xcode is, in some ways, too slow. Especially when it comes to compilation time, developers who were familiar with CodeWarrior’s relatively blazing speed are often disappointed at the non-stellar performance of gcc in Xcode. While we wait patiently for Xcode’s performance to improve, it’s important to […]

Normally I find Interface Builder to be pretty snappy. From time to time over the past few months, however, I have encountered periods of time where Interface Builder’s responsiveness has slowed to a crawl. What the heck! Could my Nib files be getting too complicated for IB’s scrappy little frame to handle? I doubted it […]

Many system services on the Mac rely on command-line tools either stored in public paths or stashed away in hard-to-find places. When I’m curiously poking around on my system (as I’m a bit too often likely to be doing), I often discover one of these master-slave relationships and wonder exactly what’s going on behind the […]