Archive for the 'Programming' Category

Build Your Own Damn HIG

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

My summary of C4 includes what I think are the main points from John Gruber’s “HIG is dead” talk. (For those who aren’t famiiliar, HIG stands for Human Interface Guidelines, and is a long-lived and ever-violated prescriptive document from Apple). In that entry, I forced myself to (mostly) reiterate what I took away as the […]

C4 Abridged

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

I just got home from Chicago. C4 was awesome. Big cheers for Wolf for putting it on and managing the events of weekend. High praise also for his volunteer assistants, who were clearly working hard the whole time. I really couldn’t have predicted just how great the collection of attendees was. I had a great […]

New Mac Blogs

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Scott Stevenson over at Cocoa Dev Central picked up on a couple good new blogs, which he’s included in his front-page summary of “Cocoa + Mac Blogs”: Cocoa Samurai – Colin Wheeler is adopting an educational approach that I really appreciate. The more “Tutorials” the better, as far as I’m concerned. His article on Doxygen […]

The Perfect Mix

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Paul Kim of Noodlesoft started blogging last month after I bugged him for months to do so. I do this kind of nagging with several people I know. I am hoping to improve the Mac blogging landscape by encouraging more development-oriented writing. With Paul, it looks like I’ve succeeded. His latest article is a wonderful […]