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Posted in Main on Jul 3rd, 2008
I’ve written a number of times (I think) about how long should I support an older OS. I’ve also said that I’m not abandoning Tiger users, quite yet, but I may have mentioned that new features are likely going to be Leopard only as required to make things easier. In the recent past, I’ve implemented [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 29th, 2008
I’ve been using GrandCentral for awhile now and think I have finally managed to get people to start calling that number. The flexibility is great; I can pick the phone I want to use and if I travel, I can set calls to goto my cell phone. If I’m around, calls goto my VOIP line. [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 23rd, 2008
I, like many modern Mac developers, use Sparkle for auto-updating ReceiptWallet. This is an amazing framework that keeps getting enhanced. Many developers just shove it in and forget it. When there is an issue, they just complain about crappy code (I know I do that a lot). Today in updating ReceiptWallet, I found that my [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 22nd, 2008
I had a user today purchase ReceiptWallet and then complain that it doesn’t work on Mac OS X 10.2.8! First off, people should download the demo prior to purchasing as I have a big “agree to this” section when purchasing that tells people to try before they buy and says we don’t offer refunds. (I [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 21st, 2008
I’ve written about OS X Server in the past and somehow I keep getting roped into dealing with these machines. The concept of OS X Server is great; a small business server that anyone can setup. The implementation, however, is quite lacking. Apple took open source software, like Apache, BIND, Open Directory and Jabberd and [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 15th, 2008
Even though I’ve been using Xcode for something like 5 years, I learn something new about it and its related tools all the time. This week I started playing with Instruments and the Leaks tool in particular. I was horrified at the number of memory leaks I found in ReceiptWallet. While they weren’t large, I’m [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 13th, 2008
I’ve struggled with managing my todo lists and have bounced back and forth among many different applications and even paper notebooks! Recently I decided to give 37signals’s Backpack as there are a few Mac clients and the web interface is excellent. I’m quite impressed with it and their free account seems to meet my needs [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 10th, 2008
Well, there isn’t a whole lot I can say. I respect the NDA I signed and therefore can’t reveal the contents of any sessions. However, I can say that I almost fell asleep in a number of sessions; some of the presenters assume zero knowledge from the attendees. While that may be the case for [...]
Posted in Main on Jun 9th, 2008
Lots of web sites have their opinions on the WWDC keynote (pretty much all I can talk about all week), so my comments will be brief.
I really, really wanted a new MacBook Pro; my machine is now 2 years old running a Core Duo processor and not the newer Core 2 Duo. My machine is [...]
Posted in Main on May 28th, 2008
After a lot of work today, I managed to get the NEAT Receipts scanner to work with ReceiptWallet. It wasn’t easy as there are issues with ICA and the driver that NEAT Receipts ships is quite buggy (if I tell it to scan the entire width, it fails; I have to divide by 3 to [...]
