Mike Zornek wrote a great summary of his experience so far as an indie Mac software vendor. Billable is a slick time-tracking and invoice-generating application. The graph plotting “interest” (number of downloads) is especially illuminating since it shows how quickly the buzz of internet linking can dwindle away. Depressing, innit? He’s about to release Billable […]

Scott Stevenson has posted the second part of his Intro to Quartz tutorial at Cocoa Dev Central. The visual production of his tutorials is always really impressive, because he identifies (by instinct, I assume) the best graphical illustrations for any given point. This second Quartz tutorial is especially notable for the scope of techniques it […]

David Weiss from Microsoft demonstrates the kind of “outside the box” (har, har) thinking he must have needed to make it through Microsoft’s grueling interview process. It would be even cooler if they affixed the computers themselves to the wall. They’re being used for automation, after all. But I’m pretty impressed with this for starters.

Sumana Harihareswara on the Fog Creek Weblog explains how FogBugz plays a central role in customer management at the company. Especially impressive to me is the part about how incoming voice messages get automatically converted to tickets with a voice attachment. Thought 1: I wish I had a dedicated server so I could run FogBugz […]