Month: July 2006
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Productive Day
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…
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Flying Blind
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…
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Virtual PC Corruption and an Argument Against Mirrored Backups
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 my…
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Xcode Automation
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.