ScriptingBridge
One of the new ‘developer’ features (i.e. a new API) in Leopard is ScriptingBridge. It’s a significant improvement to the mechanics of driving one application from another using...
View ArticleWhy I don’t ‘do’ Enterprise Software
Jason Fried has a nice article on ‘Why Enterprise Software Sucks‘ with which I agree entirely.For the last 10 years I’ve worked entirely on projects that individuals use – indeed the lack of the...
View ArticlePresentation at Boston CocoaHeads
I gave a presentation this evening at the monthly CocoaHeads meeting here in Boston. The topic was ‘Leopard Features in iOnTV’. You can download the slides of the presentation here.
View ArticleThinking Differently
I shipped an early version of the iOnTV app a few weeks ago now and have had a few bug reports etc. from the early adopters brave enough to try it out. One thing that’s become clear is that the current...
View ArticleIt’s all in the predicate
Although I might have ordered a new zippy MacBook – my old PowerBook is still proving its use: highlighting pieces of code that are just too slow. In the iOnTV UI application the schedule grid (list of...
View ArticleiPhone to Android – I’ll see your 10 million and raise you another 90 million
One of the things that Google announced with Android (though they’ve revised the rules once already) was a competition with between $25,000 and $275,000 in prize money for the best mobile applications...
View ArticleiPhone SDK, App signing and Beta Testing
Part of the iPhone SDK is a requirement to spend $99/year if you wish to distribute your application through the iTunes Store. The $99 also gives you the ability to load your application into your own...
View ArticleiPhone SDK Restrictions
There’s been some ‘grumbling’ (here and here) about some of the restrictions that are placed on application developers and their products if they use the iPhone SDK. Many of the commenters seem...
View ArticleMac OS X Desktop Virtualization
Craig Hockenberry (Iconfactory & Twitterific) is looking to encourage more developers to request Apple to support the use of Mac OS X Client (Desktop) virtualization and not just the Server version...
View ArticleDon’t ignore baseclass methods in OSObject
Having spent an hour so (and more than a few reboots) – here’s a reminder to myself (and other hapless souls). Just because OSObject is pretty abstract and can’t be constructed on it’s own that...
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