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Textmate competition == fail

I use TextMate for just about everything: Skytap Virtual Lab, processing random text files, storing notes and thoughts…you name it. I just heard about the new “TextMate killer” for the Mac from the creators of CSSEdit and gave it a try. The app, E...

Feb 25, 2007
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Lightweight Development Experiences

Jeremy Jarrell raises some excellent points on his blog about the pain and suffering he goes through when trying to use Visual Studio for lightweight code editing and experimentation: [F]or just playing with scratch code while lying in bed at nigh...

Feb 25, 2006
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Stupid Issue with OCUnit

I hit an issue with OCUnit the other day when I was trying to get a project of mine working correctly with it. The issue was that using the macro STAssertEqualObjects anywhere would cause the following build error: error: parse error before ‘type...

Sep 30, 2005
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Don Box!!!

So just as Don Box has something of a rockstar reputation outside of Microsoft, everyone I know inside the company acts in the same way when they’re around him. I was at the MVP Summit last night representing my team when Don comes by. We immedia...

Apr 21, 2005
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What the…

Periodically, I find very entertaining search queries in my referrer log for this website. Yesterday produced another gem: visual c express crack. What makes me go “huh?” about this is that the Express Editions of Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 are to...

Dec 06, 2004
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Mac OS X Debugging Magic

You want some real magic, try the debugger in Visual Studio 2005… I’ll stop being a smartass now. There are a lot of super-useful tips in this Apple Technote, still. http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2004/tn2124.html

Aug 30, 2004
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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.

Jul 04, 2004
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Java 5.0

In honor of Sun’s decision to rename Java 1.5 to Java 5.0 I am officially renaming iRooster 1.2 to be iRooster version 20.0. Also, in honor of Apple, this release must be referred to as iRooster XX. I intend to release iRooster XXX within a few mo...

Jun 29, 2004
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Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 RTM!!!!

WWDC might be catching most of the news right now, but Microsoft has its own developer event going on now too. TechEd Europe in Amsterdam just got started with a terrific keynote and some very cool product announcements. You can now download free ...