Dynamic messaging is one of the nifty features of Cocoa and Objective-C programming on the Mac. You don’t have to know which class, or even which method your code will call until runtime. The feature is utilized a great deal by the delegation pattern employed by most standard classes in AppKit. For instance, when a […]

Raymond Chen today reminds us that the readbility of code is important. But I’m not sure I agree with his headline/premise: “Code is read much more often than it is written.” In my opinion it’s more important for code to be skimmable than readable. This may be a lot of nitpicking over what is just […]

Another Iron Coder weekend is wrapped up officially, as this round’s judge Jon Wight announced on the Iron Coder Blog. Ben Gottlieb won with his WikiPath screensaver. Congratulations, Ben! My entry received an honorable mention as the “Best Non-Screensaver.” I thought everybody would do a screensaver, and I should try to be a little different. […]

Somerville, MA. April 1, 2007 Red Sweater Software today announced that is has acquired taste. After years of speculation about such a move, the company said that it realized the time had finally come. “Taste can be difficult to spot, and a real challenge to capture. That’s why I’m thrilled to announce that we’ve simply […]