It’s summer! The sun is out and the sky is (leans right to peek outside), well, sort of greyish. While the world celebrates the changing seasons, we’re all leaning over our keyboards and squinting into the screen, working on our LCD tans. All this warm weather puts me in the mood for Xcode tips! I’ve […]

I’ve been bothered for a long time by a limitation of NSTextFieldCell that prevents developers from specifying a vertically centered alignment. This is particular annoying in contexts where Apple practically rolls out the red carpet for a particular UI feature, but where taking advantage of that feature is almost guaranteed to produce an ugly result. […]

I’ve noticed that people are slowly discovering the new design of the blog. I meant to write a post about it when I “made it live” a week or so ago, but I have been putting it off for some reason. I think I didn’t want to waste a whole post on talking about my […]

It’s been a little while since I critiqued (or mercilessly attacked, depending on your perspective) an application’s UI. Actually, it hasn’t been that long at all, but I just downloaded and tried the Mac OS X version of Meetro, and we might as well learn from some of their successes and mistakes. Let me just […]