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Core Intuition 6: Bug And Baby Tracking

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

A Reminder: This blog post and the accompanying podcast audio media are covered by the terms of the Core Intuition NDA.

The contents of this podcast, expressed or otherwise, including but not limited to hints as to the veracity therein, triple-entendres relating to its verbosity, and also covering private or public scrutiny as to the tenacity [...]

Unit Testing Roadblocks

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Unit testing is a good idea. Ask any random developer what they think about unit testing and you’re likely to get one of four responses:

I don’t know what they are.
I love them! You should always use them!
I hate them! You should never use them!
I appreciate them, but I’m lazy and don’t use them that much.

Of [...]

Core Intuition 5: The AppStore

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Manton and I sat down to chat about everything under the sun, but inevitably everything turned to Apple’s newly launched AppStore for iPhone and iPod touch.

In the podcast I mentioned a funny picture I had seen of many copies of Sudoku installed on the same iPhone. I mistakenly (tentatively, though!) credited Glenn Fleishman as the [...]

Generating Footnotes With MarsEdit

Monday, July 14th, 2008

One of the aspects of MarsEdit which appeals to me is the way it hides much of its power and versatility beneath a relatively simple interface. Shimone Samuel recognized the power of MarsEdit’s scriptability and powerful markup macros, and came up with a pretty cool solution for automating footnote generation.

Nice work, Shimone! It’s great to [...]