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Looking back on iRooster, my first commercial Mac OS X application from 2003, fills me with nostalgia and gratitude. What started as a desperate solution to oversleeping through morning classes became a formative experience that shaped my entire...
I originally released this in response to an Ask HN post requesting respondents to publish their old source code. All the way back in 2003, I released my first-ever piece of commercial software, under what was called a ‘shareware’ model at the ti...
I seem to have settled into a routine of working on iRooster for about 90 minutes every day. Unfortunately, I don’t have more time than that with my day job taking 11 or 12 hours every day (plus a few more hours on the weekend). Even still, I’m ma...
There are quite a few different alarm clock software packages out there for the Mac and Windows. There are some interesting patterns that immediately present themselves. One of the most obvious is that the Windows alarm clocks out there appear to ...
OK, so the post title is a total lie. There really is no easy way to produce and sell software. There are varying degrees of difficulty that can be associated with software development, though. When I started working on iRooster I never really in...
I was cleaning up some backend code of mine last week and ended up introducing a bug into the Chimp Tunes code that: Updates song titles in the database. Downloads cover art for display in your Snooze window. I finally figured out what was ...
Today should be Tiger Day here at the sixDollarChimp ranch. We’re heading out to pick up a copy as soon as we can rouse ourselves from our slumber on this hopefully beautiful Saturday morning. Friday would have been Tiger Day, but bigger (babel’in...
Another Sunday means another iRooster update. This week saw a few developments. iRooster for Mac OS X I am still plowing through v2.1.1. I released Beta 4 this week, which features a large reduction in lines of code in the project (I cut out ab...
(Written at 35,000 feet somewhere between Minneapolis and Seattle) I’ve been on vacation for most of this week, but I still found a few hours to work on iRooster. Typically, when I’ll be gone from Seattle for more than a week I will bring my Appl...
Welcome to Week 2 of the iRooster Status Update. I have a couple things to report this week. iRooster - Mac OS X I released v2.1.1 Beta 3 yesterday. It features localizations in French, German, and Spanish. The German localization is complet...
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