What distinguishes developers on the Mac from those who design for other platforms such as Windows and Linux? We often answer the question with a flip response that makes us feel good about ourselves:

Mac developers are perfectionists.
Mac developers are community-oriented.
Mac developers are not obsessed with the bottom line.
Mac developers are passionate.

But admit it: these characteristics [...]

Brent Simmons writes on the Anatomy Of A Feature, using his recent work in NetNewsWire to add support for the popular Instapaper service:
It’s tempting to think that adding a feature like this is just about adding the functionality — but there’s a bunch more to it than that.

Here you see the gory, deliberate details that [...]

I made an offhand quip on the latest Core Intuition podcast, that in light of the recent stock market plunge, I should have invested money into my own company instead of the likes of Yahoo and Apple.

I was (mostly) joking, but there’s a philosophical truth in there. All of us have lately learned, or been [...]

When newcomers to programming on the Mac ask me for advice about getting started with Cocoa, I usually boil it down to three steps, depending on the amount of time and money they are prepared to put into the task:

If you’re the slightest bit curious, buy Mark Dalrymple and Scott Knaster’s affordable book, Learn Objective-C [...]