Another semi-useless spot on the web…
Posted in Main on Feb 23rd, 2008
I’m currently testing ReceiptWallet 2.0 beta and have been getting reports from people that say they’re using ReceiptWallet 2.0 (not saying beta) and are mad that they have problems. While I can understand being mad about having problems, but that’s why it is in beta so that people test it. I have several warnings indicating [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 23rd, 2008
I love that Mac OS X is built on a UNIX core as I can use a command line to do stuff and write shell scripts. However, in some cases, Apple has wrapped a pretty interface on top of some UNIX stuff and made a mess as such as with the case with Mac OS [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 22nd, 2008
Note: this is a long narrative that I’ve probably written before, but it helps me to get stuff off my mind by writing.
Periodically people ask me about being self employed and working from home. I’ve been self-employed for almost 5 years (5 years next month) and have been working from home for 8.5 years. So, [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 22nd, 2008
I fired up ReceiptWallet beta on a Tiger machine today to check out a problem and it didn’t launch. Huh, I looked at the crash log and it said there was a problem with a symbol not found using the dynamic linker (I’m not sure why my testers on Tiger didn’t find this as it [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 21st, 2008
A number of weeks ago, I fought with Leopard to be able to use a magnetic stripe reader in one of my apps. The Apple sample code worked on Tiger, but broke on Leopard. OK, I reported that as a bug. Next, I looked at some new USB code in Leopard and that failed as [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 20th, 2008
The recent measles outbreak here in San Diego could easily have been prevented if the parents of the original infected child had vaccinated that child. However, the parents exercised their right to not vaccinate. Some parents believe that the mercury in vaccines leads to autism; the problem with this theory is that vaccines haven’t had [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 19th, 2008
Our son, Aiden, is rapidly approaching his first birthday. We’re trying to figure out what to do. Should we have a clown? How about a pony? How about one of those jumpy things? Wow, this is going to be huge. We’re going to spend a lot of time and money planning a party that our [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 19th, 2008
Today, a very irate user sent me email complaining about the merging of ReceiptWallet and DocumentWallet. He wrote a very long email messages saying he felt ripped off and there is no mention of this on our website. Well, it isn’t mentioned on the website because it is in BETA and hasn’t been put into [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 19th, 2008
Apple has some great code to handle adding and removing items as login items called LoginItemsAE which uses AppleEvents to talk to System Preferences. I’ve used it on a number of projects and found it to work well. That was until today. A client complained that my install code wasn’t working that added it as [...]
Posted in Main on Feb 18th, 2008
After a bit of mental wrangling and taking some email to heart, I decided to merge ReceiptWallet and DocumentWallet. This means that ReceiptWallet can now open DocumentWallet libraries in addition to ReceiptWallet libraries. When you create a library, you choose for it to be a receipt or a document library. This now makes a lot [...]
