Although the vast majority of MarsEdit users are using it to manage posts on one of the big publicly available blogging systems, there are a good number of users, especially in the tech community, who run their own custom blog or blog-like software. I’ve received several private inquiries and this public one, all asking about […]

With all the excitement surrounding Red Sweater’s acquisition of MarsEdit two weeks ago, it’s hard to believe there is yet another product rapidly approaching its public unveiling. The name of the product is “Black Ink,” and it’s coming very soon! I just need to put some finishing touches on the registration system, and fix a […]

In the first part of this series, Triage, I talked about some of the earliest steps I took in the process of purchasing a Cocoa-Java application and porting it to Objective C. In this article, I’ll discuss some techniques I stumbled upon for working with a legacy Java code base while gradually migrating functionality to […]

I’m working on an application now that uses a custom document format. Since my code manipulates this format and spits it back out to disk, I find myself frequently examining the resulting documents using Peter Ammon’s excellent Hex Fiend to examine the resulting files, and make sure the content is still format-compliant. But while I’m […]