Outer Level
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Automatically Index your Help Book with Xcode
A simple way to improve your workflow and minimize human error while authoring your application’s help book is to automate the indexing of your help pages. Xcode provides a simple way to add automated steps to your build process with shell scripts. The Help Indexer tool can be called with command line arguments via a…
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Building a Game Engine with Cocoa
If you are itching to learn some basic game development techniques in Cocoa on Mac OS X, O’Reilly Mac DevCenter has part 1 of a series on building a game engine with Cocoa. Matthew Russell leads you through the development of a Lines of Action (checkers derivative) computer game. In this first part he sets…
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LicenseKeeper Nearing Beta
Work on LicenseKeeper has been moving along very well this past month. This week I’ve reached the feature complete milestone. All that remains before I’m ready for the first beta test phase is writing the help book, testing, working on all the e-commerce bits (store front, demo mode, registration support code, etc.). This morning I…
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Cocoa Blogs
Scott Stevenson announced a new Cocoa blogs aggregator web site: Cocoa Blogs I think this is a great idea and I can’t believe no one did this before. Scott has also been kind enough to link to my “Code Review” article, though he titled it “Learning from Other People’s Code”.
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Compiling EPS files to PDF files using Xcode
Peter Hosey shares a great hint to help developers prepare for the future of resolution independence in Mac OS X.
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.htaccess Tricks
Need to redirect URL requests? How about protect images and photos from bandwidth leeches? Stupid htaccess Tricks [via 43 Folders]
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Code Review
One of the major negatives to programming on your own, especially with a new language or framework, is the lack of an external input to your learning process. Other People’s Code I have been learning Cocoa and Objective-C for over a year part-time and on my own. I have learned enough to get by and…
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I love the smell of deleted code in the morning.
Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that? Lance: What? Kilgore: Deleted code, son. Nothing in the world smells like that. Kilgore: I love the smell of deleted code in the morning. Ah, the joys of a good re-factoring session that leads to deleting tons of code that is no longer needed. The code is now leaner,…
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LicenseKeeper Promo Banner
Now that the new LicenseKeeper icon is out of the bag, I thought I would whip up a new promotion banner for the front page of the Outer Level web site. Fun with Photoshop and Omni Graffle:
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LicenseKeeper Preview
It’s been awhile since I last updated you on the progress of LicenseKeeper development. Things have been moving forward quite nicely. Since the last update, the LicenseKeeper icon design was finished by Mike Rohde. Working with Mike is always fun and I’m very happy with the results: Starting last week, I now have the time…