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WWDC 2007

June 8th, 2007 · Comments · Default

Adding to the plethora of WWDC 2007 blog postings and ending my posting drought. Leaving for WWDC this weekend. Should be an interesting WWDC and am looking forward to finding out what’s new with 10.5.

See you there.

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Tiilt! Source Code

January 25th, 2007 · Comments · Default

Source code for Tiilt! is now up on my public server. Grab it while it’s hot.

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MacFUSE with Objective-C

January 16th, 2007 · Comments · Default

MacFUSE has been taking the Mac development community by storm. I’ve been hoping for a while that Fuse would get ported to Mac OS X, and Amit Singh fortunately obliged. I won’t bother elaborating on what MacFUSE is, Amit does a fine job of that himself, however I would like to present my Objective-C wrapper [...]

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The Real Week Of Independent Mac Developer

December 12th, 2006 · Comments · Default

As part of “The Real Week Of Independent Mac Developers” I’ve bought a copy of Tables (€39.00), a fine spreadsheet application for Mac OS X. I’m not sure what other software I’m in the market for right now (I just paid for an upgrade for CSS Edit a few days ago).

I’m happy to buy shareware [...]

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Tiilt!

December 11th, 2006 · Comments · Default

I don’t own a Wii. But as of today I do own a Wii Remote (and a nunchuk). And I’ve had a lot of fun using the Wiimote.framework to hack up this app:

Tiilt.mp4

This screencast shows a simple Quartz Composer composition being manipulated by the Wii remote. If there is interest I’ll put the source online.

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I would like to thank…

October 29th, 2006 · Comments · Default

Cripes.

I just won Ironcoder. I now join the esteemed ranks previous winners: Lucas Eckels, Gus Mueller and Mark Dalyrmple.

A big thank-you to Mark for hosting and judging Ironcoder. As we’ve learnt over the previous contests, judging Ironcoder is a tough and time consuming job (although Lucas had it easy). And coming up with interesting APIs [...]

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C4

October 20th, 2006 · Comments · Default

Off to C4 in just over an hour. See my contact page if you want to get a hold of my while I’m away. I’ll be staying in the Rosemont area with everyone else and letting the train take the strain. See you there.

And the hardware gods have decided to shine down on me. My [...]

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Mac OS Custom Icons and subversion don’t mix

September 20th, 2006 · Comments · Default

I had some big trouble with subversion today. I had upgraded to subversion 1.4 on both client and server a few days ago and today something went tits up with the repository on the server. I wont go into more detail here until I’ve reproduced and isolated the problem but suffice to say I deemed [...]

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FlexTime 1.0 finished

August 17th, 2006 · Comments · Default

Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater infamy has released FlexTime, a Mac OS X timer application. Of interest to me is that FlexTime might well be the first released Mac OS X application to make used of my Toxic Progress Indicator Cocoa Widget, as seen in the following screenshot:

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Obligatory WWDC Wrap-Up and Leopard Analysis

August 16th, 2006 · Comments · Default

Everyone else is doing it so I figure I ought to.

This was my seventh WWDC and was definitely the most social one I’ve attended by far. I met a tonne of people (mostly guys from #macsb who I’d known virtually for almost year or so) including a lot of developers whose work I really respect.

Buzz’s [...]

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