I’ve been in Minneapolis since Wednesday, and I haven’t had readily available internet access most of the time. I’ve been chilling out, writing code (iRooster and a little app for work), and catching up with friends and family. iRooster 1.2 Beta ...
I am ready to sign off on iRooster 1.2 Beta 1. I’ve done a lot of work to firm it up, make it as usable as possible, and add cool new features to it. I implemented a feature in an hour last night that allows users to check for updates and see if t...
Apple recently published an article on making Cocoa apps AppleScriptable. It’s fairly bare-bones, but it’s more information than I had before, so I’m not going to gripe too much. You can find it over at Apple’s Developer website.
My buddy Matt just sent me this picture. As he put it, it’s like a game of Where’s Waldo. But for an older crowd :-)
The best way to find nasty, blocking bugs is to “eat your own dogfood.” i.e. use the software you’re developing as you develop it. I do this with iRooster: I wake up every day to it… or not, as this morning proved. I thought I had worked out the l...
That ain’t iTunes, it’s the best damned alarm clock you’ll ever see!
One thing I’ve wondered about for the longest time is how Apple Events work. I’ve never really found a really good tutorial on them, and they’ve always mystified me. It feels incredibly fragile to use AppleScript in shipping code, but I’ve always ...
I believe I was just able to get rid of the last truly serious bug in repeating alarms. I’m sure there will be a few I missed, but that’s what a beta test is for! iRooster 1.2 is coming along quite swimmingly, if I do say so myself. I have implem...
Here’s a terrifically interesting factoid I just read: If one-half of 1 percent of [Florida’s] Cuban community had stayed home in 2000—not voted for Gore, but just stayed home—we’d be talking about Gore’s re-election right now.
Here are a few Google searches from my statistics page from yesterday: “aaron brethorst” - someone actually googled me. I’m touched. “funniest picture ever” - I still come up amazingly high for this one. “irooster windows” - There’s definitel...