I’ll let you in on a little secret. Well, it shouldn’t be a secret by now, but you’ll know I’m talking about you when I say that not everybody has gotten the memo yet. Don’t be embarrassed – today is the day you come into the light (not the “just died and moving on to […]

John Siracusa recently wrote about Apple’s almost universally condemned strategy of distributing recorded conference materials after the show is over. He asks “Why does Apple jealously guard the content presented at WWDC?” It’s a good question, and it probably has to do with compelling future attendance at conferences. After all, Apple is probably thinking, if […]

The third Iron Coder concluded tonight. Mark Dalrymple emerged victorius! I’m really happy for Mark’s win because his entry was fun, and because it was clear he latched on to the opportunity to use the contest as an opportunity to really learn more about the Mac OS X APIs. I also have a lot of […]

Andy Lee sent me a bunch of excellent feedback about FlexTime, and let me know about a strange, 100% reproducible crashing bug. If you configure FlexTime such that both the ending cue of one activity and the starting cue of the one that follows are “Speak Text” cues, then the application crashes. First thought: damn […]