Developers need to get Spin Dumps as well as Crash Dumps Dan Wood: “It would be much more useful if application-specific spin reports could be put into a user’s home directory, and made readable to that user. Then, third-party developers could cobble together a mechanism for reporting a hang, just like many of us do for crash reports.” Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:30:05 GMT

Feed Archaeology Charlie Wood: “Even if Google’s index no longer includes my old posts, I know that NewsGator archives the contents of millions of RSS feeds. So I contacted Greg Reinacker to see how to access that archive, and he pointed me to the NewsGator Archive Service which has most of the data I need and a simple HTTP POST interface I can use from the command line.” Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:52:04 GMT

Advice to budding indies Dan Wood: “If I could go back in time and give myself some advice, I’d say to plan for having more than one application, and incorporate that into your development and company infrastructure.” Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:28:48 GMT

ConnectionKit Dan Wood: “Yesterday, I ran across a glowing review of ConnectionKit, the Cocoa open-source framework used for transfer that handles FTP, FTP over SSL, SFTP, .mac, WebDAV, secure WebDAV, the file system, S3, and NNTP. This is a framework that Greg Hulands started quite a while ago, initially for FTP only, but it has grown into an extremely useful and powerful kit!” Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:38:50 GMT

Dan Wood Detects Leaks Infinitely Dan Wood: “Essentially what I thought I’d do is to see how a particular method invocation grew memory over repeated use. That way, leaks would be easy to spot with ObjectAlloc (or probably with OmniObjectMeter).” Good tip: I’m sure I’ll use it. Here in the lab we use a combination of ‘leaks’ (with stack logging turned on), ObjectAlloc, and MallocDebug. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:07:24 GMT

CGDanWoodRef Dan Wood: “I’m a big fan of Core Image; I blogged (1, 2) about quite a while ago. And I like NSImage for its simplicity. But only recently have I been introduced to Core Graphics. I wish I had been aware of its coolness much earlier!” Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:51:18 GMT

Karelia: Help with Tech Support Dan Wood: “I wanted to put out some feelers to see if there is somebody who would be interesting in help out Karelia by doing first-line technical support for Sandvox: reading incoming inquiries, responding if needed, helping users troubleshoot or find the answers in the online help, assigning as bug reports if needed, and so forth.” Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:27:45 GMT

Storing Per-Machine Preferences Dan Wood: “So instead we came up with a new, simple approach...” Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:26:12 GMT

Time’s Person of the Year Dan Wood: “Time Magazine’s cover is so ... twentieth century. This is what it really should look like.” Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:07:09 GMT

Making a “Do not show this warning again” alert Dan Wood: “One user interface element that has become common in Mac applications is a warning alert sheet with a checkbox saying ‘Do not show this warning again’ (or words to that effect).” Sat, 30 Jul 2005 00:14:44 GMT

Watson’s Life Coming to an End, Soon Dan Wood: “There’s been some discussion on the Watson Users’ email discussion group about the future of Watson and where Sun is going. I am sad to say that it looks like Sun doesn’t seem to be focussing on getting the port of Watson released any time soon.” This is sad: Watson is cool. But we’re looking forward to hearing what Dan is working on next. Fri, 24 Sep 2004 04:20:45 GMT

Return of the homebrew coder The Economist: “The new craftsmen do not stitch leather, cut cloth or saw wood: instead, they write software.” This article featuring independent software developers mentions Brent, as well as Jonas Salling of Salling Software; Gaurav Banga and Saurabh Aggarwbi, makers of VeriChat; and Nick Bradbury of Bradbury Software. (Web access requires paid subscription. Print version: The Economist, March 13th-19th 2004, Technology Quarterly section, pages 10-11.) Tue, 16 Mar 2004 05:36:29 GMT

Breaking into the Business: An Interview with Michael Matas O’Reilly: “He’s the graphic designer who helped Dan Wood create the great look for Watson and who’s now designing for the Omni Group, as well as creating graphics and icons for other Mac OS X software developers. Michael works exclusively in Mac OS X, and mostly in Photoshop 7. Oh, and one more thing, he’s 16 years old and a junior in high school.” Tue, 05 Nov 2002 00:23:44 GMT

Interview with Watson’s Dan Wood O’Reilly interviews Dan Wood: “I had run across some small utilities that did web ‘scraping’ (extracting and reformatting useful data from HTML pages) such as monitoring eBay auctions and collecting headlines of SlashDot.org. I decided that the world needed a handy container application for these kinds of utilities, and from there the individual tool ideas started coming left and right.” Thu, 26 Sep 2002 23:25:10 GMT

Watson development to continue, says developer MacCentral: “Dan Wood of Karelia Software, the developer of Watson, confirmed for MacCentral that he had no part in the development of Sherlock 3. Wood also confirmed that Watson is alive and well and he will continue the development of the product.” I’m glad. I don’t know if Watson will continue to be a successful product after Sherlock 3 ships. I hope so. One thing that has always bugged me is how people so often prefer the software made by their OS vendor. Bundling only works so well because people somehow seem to distrust competing apps that come from independent developers, even in the cases where those apps are better and more mature. Thu, 09 May 2002 22:26:12 GMT