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Archive for July, 2006

Productive Day

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

I had a nice productive Sunday. With some quiet and very few interruptions, several items on my LicenseKeeper development to-do list got knocked out.
The major item I had been struggling with was how to support drag and drop from Apple Mail. After many hours of research, much experimentation, and lucking into some nice open [...]

Flying Blind

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Last year I successfully developed and released the first version of my game, Bullfrog. Looking back, I believe the two big factors in the success of that project were creating a project plan prior to having anything more than a rough idea of what the game was about and being limited to a hard deadline [...]

Virtual PC Corruption and an Argument Against Mirrored Backups

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

This morning I tried to load my trusty Virtual PC on my G5 to do a little Quickbooks work. The usual tedium of paying bills creating invoices, etc.
I started Virtual PC, selected my Windows XP instance and clicked start.

Oh, oh!
No problem, I say. I run nightly backups so I’ll just restore [...]

Xcode Automation

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

Uli Kusterer has a nice list of hints on automating some of the repetitive and tedious steps of Mac software development:

Delete Subversion Folders
Auto-generating a Help Index
Using php for Your Help Books
Including the Subversion Revision in Your App
Build and Upload File for Deployment

Uli also has quite a nice blog.