Friday, May 16th, 2008
Aaron Hillegass's Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X is now available on Amazon's US store. UK store to follow. This coincides nicely with my "Thursday Is Code Night In Bangor" plans. I already have second edition but I'd like third edition because things have changed. That said - even third ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Apple released beta5 of the iPhone SDK and quietly opened iPhone Developer registration to the public so that everyone can load their code onto their iPhones and give them a go. The updates SDK is winging it's way to me at 1495K/sec right now which means I'll be able to ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
John Gruber writes:
"Borrowing ideas is fair game, but copying an entire app is wrong. And it’s creepy, in a Microsoft-of-the-’90s way, when it’s a $150 billion company cloning an app from a 10-person company."
This is the #1 demotivator for me when it comes to software development. It's an unreasonable fear ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
The recent news that Adobe Creative Suite 4 will not be 64-bit for the Mac is taken as a blow to the Mac. It will be 64-bit for Windows on 64-bit machines running a 64-bit Windows OS (which is a surprisingly small number of people).
64-bit Windows XP runs slower than ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
On my Newton, I downloaded maybe 20 apps. I bought two over the wire. I even bought one in a retail package.
On my Palm vX, I bought two apps. A Paris City Guide and a VT100 Terminal app.
On my other phones and devices between then and now I've downloaded two ...
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