Adieu Links Blog

Friday, October 13th, 2006

I’ve decided to, at least experimentally, ditch my links blog. That blog was born out of a fear that posting quickie links in here would drive away readers. But it was a major pain in the butt for me to manage two “blogs” just to achieve this artificial separation. The thing is, I don’t like […]

The Perfect Mix

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Paul Kim of Noodlesoft started blogging last month after I bugged him for months to do so. I do this kind of nagging with several people I know. I am hoping to improve the Mac blogging landscape by encouraging more development-oriented writing. With Paul, it looks like I’ve succeeded. His latest article is a wonderful […]

Working On Windows

Friday, October 6th, 2006

The contractors are abuzz in the neighbor’s building, hammering, spackling, and chatting loudly with each other. I sit here staring into Xcode, furiously trying to figure out an NSTextField drawing issue, when I hear a choice bit of wisdom echo through my office: “I just fuckin’ hate working on windows, man.” Amen to that. Apparently […]

Google: Oh No You Didn’t!

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Today the tech community (at least all of my friends) are abuzz with news of Google’s new Code Search mechanism. Now, this is just cool. From this day forward when I’m struggling with some poorly documented, hard to use, or even private API, I should be able to just type it into Google code search […]