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!
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...
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 ...
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...
I booked a ticket just now for a trip back to Minneapolis next month. My itinerary is as follows: Leave: SEA @ 12:10 PM, Wed. Sept 1 2004 Arrive: MSP @ 5:25 PM Leave: MSP @ 9:34 PM, Wed. Sept 8 2004 Arrive SEA @ 11:09 PM
Occasionally, the inspiration for some random little feature will just strike me. Tonight was one of those nights. The next release of iRooster will add a little bit of flair to the default alarm editor’s list of alarms. Up until now it’s been so...