Archive for the 'Cocoa' Category

Disabled Menus Are Usable

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Joel Spolsky has a remarkable track record of speaking truth to programmers on his blog: Joel On Software. Occasionally he says something with which I disagree, but usually it’s on a subtle point, or it’s an issue where his passion for doing things one way is motivated by his preferred platforms: Windows and the [...]

Development Phase Code Signing

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Code signing is a technology for associating a cryptographically secure signature with your application’s executable code. This signature makes it possible for the operating system or other services to make confident assumptions of authenticity based on the unique signature which you’ve supplied.

Thus, code signing is a technology which is rather useless in itself, but [...]

WWDC CocoaHeads 2008

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Last year Scott Stevenson put together a fun event at the Apple store during the week of WWDC, and invited me to participate. We talked about a variety of indie Mac issues, and also took questions from the audience.

The great news is Scott is doing another event this year: Tuesday, 7PM at the Apple store. [...]

Core Intuition: Traveling Luddites

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Manton and I recorded another episode this week, just in time to hopefully give you a little something extra to listen to on the way to WWDC, if that’s where the winds are taking you.

In this episode we talk a bit about travel and how we keep up on our indie business commitments on the [...]