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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Relatively hot-on-the-heels of the previous release, MarsEdit 3.1.4, fixes some major memory performance issues and includes some fixes that streamline integration between Tumblr photo posts and the media manager. Major Memory Meltdown I have always been pretty proud of my ability to manage memory usage in my code. In addition to using good programming habits, […]
Posted in Debugging, MarsEdit, Programming | 3 Comments »
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 »
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
Update: I originally cited the content of a customer’s email in this post, and although I didn’t reveal her identity, I don’t think this was appropriate or particularly constructive. Mea culpa. In the future I will never cite the contents of a customer’s private email, no matter how anonymously, unless they have expressly permitted me […]
Posted in Business, Indie, Rant, Technology | 22 Comments »
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
MarsEdit users sometimes sheepishly admit that they aren’t blogging as much as they “should” be. Excuses vary, but it usually boils down to the classic issue afflicting all of us who try to stick to a productive routine: we simply fall out of the habit. Long time readers of this blog will note that I’ve […]
Posted in Ideas, Motivation, Rant, Web | 7 Comments »