Some code is not meant to live forever. In particular, during development phases of projects, it can be very reassuring to know that a particular release of an application will have a short life-cycle, because you’ll be (relatively) assured that users aren’t accidentally running crufty old (development!) versions of the app. The basic means of […]

A variety of influences tonight pointed me towards my earliest published article, for MacTech, in 1999 or so: MascBug Revisited I was really just a kid. But I had learned an awful lot about debugging, thanks to my awesome job in the Apple system integration team. I guess that made me feel pretty confident about […]

The WebKit team is picking up on Steve Jobs’s “one more thing” habit, announcing yesterday a new HTML element inspector, built into the latest WebKit nightly downloads. Play around with it for just a few minutes and your jaw will drop. It’s especially fun to click around the DOM hierarchy and watch as WebKit obscures […]

I just noticed a new section on mmalc’s very helpful “Cocoa Bindings Examples and Hints”: Observing a Collection I have personally found this very confusing when I’ve used bindings in my projects. The problem arises when you’ve got application model data stored in some “free” data structure like a dictionary or array. The model data […]