D’oh! My blog turned one year old this past Saturday, and I was so thoughtless I didn’t even send it a card. Happy Birthday, Red Sweater Blog! It’s been an interesting year. A place to speak one’s mind is a powerful tool, and I’m grateful to the internet for that. The 150 entries I’ve made […]

The Cocoa Scripting layer makes it extremely easy to expose manipulation of your application’s model to users via AppleScript. That said, for most developers the learning curve associated with this can be far from “easy.” The psychological burden of tackling scripting support seems to prevent many developers, even those within Apple, from providing even the […]

It’s summer! The sun is out and the sky is (leans right to peek outside), well, sort of greyish. While the world celebrates the changing seasons, we’re all leaning over our keyboards and squinting into the screen, working on our LCD tans. All this warm weather puts me in the mood for Xcode tips! I’ve […]

I’ve been bothered for a long time by a limitation of NSTextFieldCell that prevents developers from specifying a vertically centered alignment. This is particular annoying in contexts where Apple practically rolls out the red carpet for a particular UI feature, but where taking advantage of that feature is almost guaranteed to produce an ugly result. […]