What I love about the web and blogging is the chaotic and largely egalitarian nature of publicity and “exposure” that the medium offers. In 2005, a computer programmer of modest means can fire up MarsEdit and get a message to the world as quickly as he or she can type it. Some of you who […]

How many times have you been bitten by the problem of moving a window in Interface Builder, for easier editing, and then neglecting to put it back before saving it? Sometimes this can pop up as an embarrassing bug when you realize that your preferences have been saving an appropriate location for the window, but […]

Scenario If you’re developing software with Xcode, you’re familiar with the typical process of adding a new source file to your project. You hit Cmd-N, and then either navigate or typeselect to the desired file type. Usually, if you’re a Cocoa programmer, this means getting past all the AppleScript, BSD, and Carbon templates you don’t […]

Anybody who uses iTunes to acquire “podcast” audio files knows that there are some major perks to using iTunes for this purpose as opposed to simply downloading the mp3 file with NetNewsWire or your web browser. The biggest advantages to me are: New iTunes podcasts are automatically transferred to your iPod Old (already listened to) […]