All Blog Posts (Page 91)

Sep 12, 2004
Video Games

Games!

Realistically, I will probably end up buying all of these someday. Short-term, I plan on getting Fable, Halo 2, MGS 3, Half-Life 2, and KOTOR 2. Lotsa cool games coming out soon… Only two of the titles below are not for XBox, curiously ;-). Fable...

Sep 09, 2004
Miscellaneous

Fred Durst Stuff

I may hate Limp Bizkit, but I’m starting to really like Fred Durst. Did you know he has a weblog now? Did you know that he likes Death Cab for Cutie?

Sep 06, 2004
Personal Life

Mpls Wrapup

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 ...

Aug 31, 2004
iRooster

More iRooster Updates

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...

Aug 30, 2004
Developer Tools

More AppleScript + Cocoa

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.

Aug 27, 2004
Random Funniness

Where' Waldo for an older crowd

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 :-)

Aug 26, 2004
iRooster

Nasty Bugs

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...

Aug 24, 2004
iRooster

More stuff about iRooster

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...

Aug 24, 2004
Mac OS X

Apple Events

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 ...