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Dasher Alternative Input

Monday, June 4th, 2007

This blog post was written with out pressing the keyboard or clicking the mouse! Check it out! Here’s a movie of me “typing” the above text with Dasher, an alternative text input interface. Thanks to Jon Wight for tipping me off to Dasher.

Brent Simmons On Large Cocoa Projects

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

Brent Simmons shares a good deal of wisdom in his post about managing a large-ish Cocoa project. In particular he’s referring to NetNewsWire, but his advice is especially pertinent to me now that I own and maintain a rather substantial number of source files that were designed and authored by Brent (MarsEdit, for anybody late […]

Coding For Readability

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Raymond Chen today reminds us that the readbility of code is important. But I’m not sure I agree with his headline/premise: “Code is read much more often than it is written.” In my opinion it’s more important for code to be skimmable than readable. This may be a lot of nitpicking over what is just […]

Iron Coder V Winner: Ben Gottlieb

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

Another Iron Coder weekend is wrapped up officially, as this round’s judge Jon Wight announced on the Iron Coder Blog. Ben Gottlieb won with his WikiPath screensaver. Congratulations, Ben! My entry received an honorable mention as the “Best Non-Screensaver.” I thought everybody would do a screensaver, and I should try to be a little different. […]