Monthly Archives: August 2009
John Siracusa: Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard. Includes a discussion of some of the file system’s new tricks and QuickTime X’s secrets, which you’ll probably never need to know. But don’t you want to know?
August 31, 2009
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Wil Shipley (Delicious Monster): Snow Leopard is built for the future. A short overview of what Snow Leopard’s new technologies mean from an application developer’s perspective.
August 28, 2009
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Matt Gallagher (Cocoa with Love): Adding shadow effects to UITableView using CAGradientLayer. Non-obvious and useful.
August 21, 2009
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Wil Shipley (Delicious Library): On Heuristics and Human Factors. This is a big part of what separates great applications from the rest.
August 21, 2009
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Hivelogic: Installing MySQL on Mac OS X (from source). Useful if you can’t use a prebuilt package for some reason. (Remember to adjust the instructions for the latest version instead of 5.1.33.)
August 18, 2009
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On skins and plugins
I started this post over six months ago, but never quite got around to finishing it. It might never be finished. But this is a thorn to me, so I’m just going to post it as is. Should your new … Continue reading
John C. Welch (aka Bynkii, Angry Mac Bastard): Password Changes in Open Directory (One burst of profanity). For us Mac users who are sometimes a little too smug about the Mac’s user interface. (The podcast: Angry Mac Bastards. Extreme profanity … Continue reading
August 10, 2009
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Loren Brichter (Atebits, Tweetie): Not Your Average iPhone Screencast. How to make the simulator look like a real device in screencasts.
August 10, 2009
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Tenni Theurer (Yahoo Interface Blog): Web Performance Research, Part 3: When the Cookie Crumbles. From 2007, but I hadn’t seen it yet.
August 9, 2009
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