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Aug 27, 2004

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

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 25, 2004

iRooster

Because a picture is worth a thousand words

That ain’t iTunes, it’s the best damned alarm clock you’ll ever see!

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 ...

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...