Manton and I sat down to chat about everything under the sun, but inevitably everything turned to Apple’s newly launched AppStore for iPhone and iPod touch. In the podcast I mentioned a funny picture I had seen of many copies of Sudoku installed on the same iPhone. I mistakenly (tentatively, though!) credited Glenn Fleishman as […]

One of the aspects of MarsEdit which appeals to me is the way it hides much of its power and versatility beneath a relatively simple interface. Shimone Samuel recognized the power of MarsEdit’s scriptability and powerful markup macros, and came up with a pretty cool solution for automating footnote generation. Nice work, Shimone! It’s great […]

Joel Spolsky has a remarkable track record of speaking truth to programmers on his blog: Joel On Software. Occasionally he says something with which I disagree, but usually it’s on a subtle point, or it’s an issue where his passion for doing things one way is motivated by his preferred platforms: Windows and the web. […]

Code signing is a technology for associating a cryptographically secure signature with your application’s executable code. This signature makes it possible for the operating system or other services to make confident assumptions of authenticity based on the unique signature which you’ve supplied. Thus, code signing is a technology which is rather useless in itself, but […]