Archive for the 'Cocoa' Category

Zoom Anywhere

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

I’ve been in and out of Apple’s iPhone simulator for the past two years, and for the entire time, I’ve been frustrated by what I assumed was an inherent limitation: pinching and zooming and only works in the middle of the screen: Today I was so supremely frustrated by this that I played around with [...]

Hold On A Minute

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

One of the big new features in MarsEdit 3 is a revamped media manager that allows you to easily browse local libraries from iPhoto, Aperture, etc. This functionality is based largely on the great work of the iMedia project, which was spearheaded by Karelia to replicate Apple’s own ubiquitous media browsing interface, some variant of [...]

RegExKitLite v. Clang

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

I finally updated to Xcode 3.2.3. I was a little late because I had other priorities, but I wanted to get my iPhone projects building and installing onto my iPhone OS 4.0 devices, so I decided to download and install the latest SDK. Unfortunately, this seemingly minor update presented a major failure in my debug [...]

A Stroke Of Luck

Friday, April 9th, 2010

One of my customers reported a really subtle bug having to do with a keyboard shortcut for a command. I’m going to change some facts to protect the innocent, but imagine I got a report: “Every time I press cmd-N to create a new document and start typing, instead of accepting the text, it just [...]