Category: Programming
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Cocoa Developer Job Board
The fine folks over at Panic have add a new Cocoa Developer Jobs Board to their CocoaDev.com site. If you are a company looking for developers they have a “Grand Opening” coupon available for $50 or 30 days. If you are a Cocoa Developer, there are several positions already listed. Even Apple is on board.…
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FlexTime UI Redesign
Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software shares his approach to the redesign of FlexTime’s user interface. I really like the new interface and his write up reveals some nice little hints on how to incorporate similar ideas in to your Cocoa applications. It really is amazing how one little talk at a conference can cause…
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New Quartz Tutorial
Scott Stevenson has written up a great new tutorial: Introduction to Cocoa Graphics (Quartz) for his very helpful Cocoa tutorials web site: Cocoa Dev Central. There is some great stuff here. I truely wish that I had this resource back when I started Bullfrog. Scott skillfully walks the reader through a simple illustrated overview of…
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iPod Games
iPod Games: now this is an interesting business opportunity. The Mac games market may be small, but the iPod market is huge. I wonder how open Apple will be to selling independent iPod games through iTunes. So, Apple where is that iPod Games SDK? Can I use Objective-C or do I need to use Java?…
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Bullfrog 1.2.0 Released
Bullfrog 1.2.0 is out. I’m pretty excited about this release. There are bunch of cool new things in this version: Automatic Software Updates using Andy Matuschak’s awesome Sparkle Framework Online High Scores Pause Button Screen Shot Button Several bug fixes Download Bullfrog 1.2.0 for Free
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Weekend Diversion
The nice thing about having several software projects going at the same time is that if you need a break from one, there is plenty of work to do on your others. LicenseKeeper development has been progressing nicely the last couple of weeks. But, this weekend I needed a break. With all the excitement of…
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Xcode 2.4 Released
Apple has released Xcode 2.4, available through Apple Developer Connection. The Xcode 2.4 release provides overall stability improvement and adds support for 64-bit Intel based Mac computers. It is recommended that all Xcode users install this update.
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Apple Design Awards 2006
Apple has posted the winners of their annual Apple Design Awards contest. Congratulations to all the winners and runners-up.
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Xcode 3.0 and Objective-C 2.0
Xcode 3.0 and Objective-C 2.0: garbage collection project snapshots non-linear debugger Xtray (GarageBand-like time-line performance analyzer) Interface Builder 3.0 Sweet UI updates
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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…