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Trust, hostility, and the human side of Apple
Trust, hostility, and the human side of Apple: It was a giant middle finger to iPhone developers. And that’s the closing impression that Apple gave us for WWDC. Clearly, they had absolutely no interest in fielding even a single question … Continue reading
User accounts removed
I originally required registration to comment to cut down on spam, before Akismet was easy to use. It was a crappy requirement, who wants to register with a random blog just to leave a comment? So I turned it off, … Continue reading
How to manipulate a developer
Hint: We like being manipulated, as long as it’s being manipulated correctly. inessential.com: How to manipulate me (or, Tuesday Whipper-Snapping) Imagine you’re in my shoes: you’re me, for a minute. Think about feature requests, for example—you have a list several … Continue reading
Keeping optimal autorelease pools
Martin Pilkington on autorelease pools: However, a problem arises when you’re creating a lot of objects at once. The obvious solution is to initialise and release objects by hand in this case, but sometimes it isn’t possible. A lot of … Continue reading
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Tagged autorelease, cocoa, Mac OS X, memory management, Software Development
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iPhoto Faces fail
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Tagged Apple, face recognition, faces, fail, iLife, iphoto, iPhoto Faces, Mac OS X
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NERD
What is the world coming to when we have nerd-on-nerd violence, reported by nerds? Pic Shows Man Robbing Stores With Klingon Sword – Irresistible Headlines News Story – KMGH Denver Yes, I said nerd on nerd. Note this: Both clerks … Continue reading
Coding tips for new iPhone developers from a new iPhone developer
If any of these seem wrong, please comment! The Objective-C syntax is strange. It’s really not that hard, though, especially once you realize that part of the reason for the design was to make Objective-C a strict superset of C. … Continue reading
Macworld Keynote
A few thoughts, based on watching the keynote via QuickTime: Phil Schiller was great. He seemed to be a little nervous in his delivery, but he was interesting in a casual, friendly way. If he has a chance to do … Continue reading
iCal View menu
Here’s iCal’s View menu. What’s so confusing about it? You really need to see how it interacts with the iCal main window to understand. We’re going to be focusing on the group starting with “Hide Calendar List.” The iCal main … Continue reading
Topless keynote
If you haven’t heard, Apple is pulling out of MacWorld. Personally, I think their stated reasons are pretty good, plus John C. Welch has a pretty good secondary reason, plus possible consequences that don’t involve the Mac community being a … Continue reading