Archive for the 'Xcode' Category

Livin’ in a WordPress Hacker’s Paradise

Monday, June 5th, 2006

I have been happily using WordPress as the infrastructure for this blog since its inception, almost one year ago. Since I’m perhaps slightly geekier than than the average WordPress customer, I have been wanting to get to know the sources a bit better and possibly make my own tweaks or write plugins to suit my […]

Pain in the Nib

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

Anybody who’s spent time with Apple’s Interface Builder (IB) application knows that it’s an amazingly intuitive, powerful tool for designing user interfaces. It’s also a major pain in the ass. While Xcode has improved by leaps and bounds over the past few years, IB has struggled to keep up. For the most part, it seems […]

CoreGraphics Log Jam

Friday, May 5th, 2006

It’s been a while since I’ve complained about Apple in the context of an actual bug report, so here is a little diversion back into “Apple Bug Friday” land. One of the aspects of Mac OS X programming that can really frustrate traditional Mac OS programmers is the lack of error reporting from many APIs. […]

ADC Documentation Bomb

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

Apple’s documentation team just keeps getting better and better. Not only is the writing clearer and more connected to real-world applications than it has been in the past, the team seems to be getting prolific! Today they dropped a huge update on their site, including a bunch of brand new titles. The completely new documents: […]