Pro Core Data for iOS from Xcode 4 to Xcode 3
Last summer, Apple released a developer preview of Xcode 4 under NDA. When Michael Privat and I began writing Pro Core Data for iOS in August, we figured Apple would release the final version...
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What Coke and Pepsi Can Teach Us About User Interfaces
My oldest child spent much of his life with a loyalty to Coca-Cola matched only by Lassie’s loyalty to Timmy, and would go thirsty before allowing any product from Pepsi-Cola to wet his gullet....
Make Diffs Readable
Every time I look at a diff, I’m reminded of the gulf between me and Linus Torvalds. I just know he’s fluent in Finnish, English, and diff, but me? I know the diff syntax....
Guiffy SureMerge is Today’s MacZot, Works Cross-Platform
Today’s MacZot is Guiffy SureMerge, a three-way diff/merge tool. It’s discounted 49% today only ($30 vs $59), and the Guiffy website says a license allows you to use the product on all supported platforms...
10 Must-Install Mac Applications
I’m a software developer, so bear in mind that my Mac is for working and coding (mostly Objective-C, Java, and Ruby). You won’t find apps for ripping DVDs, viewing videos, or playing Canasta. These...
From One Steve to Another: It’s About the Developers
I got to watch Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, being interviewed at the 2010 Gartner Symposium in Orlando this past week. Though Forbes lists him as the 33rd richest person in the world, he...
Hanging Out with Old Friends: SWT and JFace
I’ve been working on a new project at work that deals with files in X12 format: delimited files that generally use asterisks for field delimiters and tildes for line delimiters. Here’s an example fragment:...
The End of Innovation
Last Saturday, Michael Privat and I drove up to Atlanta to attend Cocoa Camp, a BarCamp-style un-conference focused on Cocoa. We each got two free T-shirts, got to present twice, met a lot of...
Sibling Squabble over Regular Expressions
I was working in Java yesterday to parse a URL that had a somewhat flexible format, so I set up my unit tests, wrote the code in a declarative fashion using indexOf() and substring(),...
Users Don’t Read? They Don’t Listen, Either!
The company I work for, Availity, LLC, provides (among other things) a web application that allows healthcare providers to submit transactions to insurance companies and get responses, all in real time. Users learn just...