Since I’m a little obsessed with AppleScript, I end up pasting AppleScript code into my blog. I recently decided it was a real shame that I couldn’t easily replicate the way AppleScript code looks in Script Editor, in my blog. I thought about this situation for a while, and then did some experimenting. If I [...]

Most Mac developers have, by now, given Apple’s CHUD Performance Tools Suite at least a cursory run-through. These tools, and in particular Shark, are incredibly effective for pinpointing performance problems that may be plaguing your application (or other code). The presence of these tools has helped many developers inside and outside of Apple produc more [...]

With all the hooplah about iPod Nano’s vulnerabilities: scratching, cracking, etc., I admit I’ve become a little more coddling of precious than I might otherwise be. I have owned exactly two iPods in my life: the 5GB original that I bought for half-price a majillion years ago as an Apple employee, and the 4GB iPod [...]

An interesting commentary today from John Gruber on independent programmers and the alluring goal of achieving “The Life.“ Gruber makes some great points about the not-so-simple criteria that define “ultimate success” for an indie programmer, observing that support responsibilities for one-person shows can be crippling. It’s almost enough to make a developer pray for obscurity. [...]