January 2010
16 posts
Fontcase →
Nearly $60 USD, but beautiful: “Fontcase is a font management application that provides an elegant and powerful workflow to help you organise the fonts you have installed on your system. Designed to…
Revealing Mac OS X's Hidden Single-Application... →
defaults write com.apple.dock single-app -bool true
killall Dock
Charles Web Debugging Proxy →
Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests,…
Ultra Mountain Runner Circles the Globe Twice →
“When I’m out on a run and I try hard to concentrate on something other than the run, I never can. My mind continually wanders and if someone asked me what I was just thinking about I wouldn’t be able to tell them. I was running. I wasn’t thinking. However—and this is the tricky part—the moment I realize that I’m not thinking about anything, then I am thinking about the fact that I’m not...
A successful Git branching model →
“Next to the main branches master and develop, our development model uses a variety of supporting branches to aid parallel development between team members, ease tracking of features, prepare for production releases and to assist in quickly fixing live production problems. Unlike the main branches, these branches always have a limited life time, since they will be removed eventually. The...
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The Sure Thing
Malcom Gladwell has an interesting article in this week’s New Yorker. Unfortunately it is unavailable online, which is probably why nobody is talking about it. Here is a quote I feel is relevant to Indie software developers, and people who want to stop working for The Man:
The economist Scott Shane, in his book “The Illusions of Entrepreneurship,” makes a similar argument …...
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Our records indicate that you belong to more than...
I recently clicked a link to become an administrator for a new iPhone project on the iPhone Developer Program Portal. I’m familiar with the website, but was now surprised to discover I could no longer see my personal developer site. How would I manage all my existing certificates and provisions? How could I add people to the current ad-hoc distribution program? All I could see now was this...
Flicking the iPhone →
Dan Sinclair wanted to let the user of the application flick between views to see different detailed view screens. Each flick should take the user either forward or back in the list. The transitions…
Unison 2 Color & Contrast | 下手の横好き世界４ →
“The medium-gray top and bottom bars of administrative chrome encapsulate the lighter inner areas of content.”
Training A 'Flip-Flop Army' →
“I pull over the Humvee door expecting to see one of my teammates, and there’s this guy. He’s big. He’s burly. I had no idea who he was. And I go, who the hell are you? And he introduces himself, he…
EasyGlyph Updated – Kerning Fixed + Drop shadows →
Alexi White released a font system for the iPhone called EasyGlyph. He looked into switching over to a native true-type-font loader but came back to this because it still seems like the cleanest…
Cocoa Is My Girlfriend » Git and XCode: A git... →
various scripts and suggestions for tagging your builds so they can be reproduced from field reports
This device is busy or otherwise unusable by...
When the Xcode Organizer says, “This device is busy or otherwise unusable by Xcode.” Don’t bother rebooting our Mac or futzing with your certificates. Unplug the offending device. Restart it by holding down the lock button on top until prompted to “slide to power off”. Then plug it back into the USB port. When it has rebooted far enough Xcode will say,...
Taskbar 2010
What does your taskbar look like this year?
New Year's Resolutions
One of my New Year’s resolutions was to start blogging.
I know, in the new age of Twitter, blogging has become something of a dying art. The days when I would scrub through my RSS feeds daily, if not hourly, are long gone. But when I’m working on something and get stuck or have a problem, I search for a clue, and the answer is often on somebody’s blog.
So in the spirit of...
