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Corporation Unknown
Corporation Unknown is written by Seattle-ite Paul Goracke. You may not know who he is — he’s new to the indie world, and his app isn’t shipping yet. But he’s done the smart thing: ship the weblog first. ;)
Don’t miss both parts of his WWDC recap.
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Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:17:53 GMT
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Indie Fever
Michiel van Meeteren: “‘Indie Fever’ is the first result of a multi-year human geography research program to investigate the social and economical world of so-called ‘Indie’ developers on the Macintosh platform.”
I haven’t had time to read it — but I will, and soon. Sounds like very interesting stuff.
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:13:22 GMT
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Bypassing Objective-C's Message Passing Mechanism for Speed
hohlecow: “When possible, I like to use Objective-C for its pure encapsulation. The convenience of message passing in Objective-C, however, can be a performance hinderance when calling methods several thousand times in succession. Thankfully, there are several options for getting great performance out of critical code paths in Objective-C applications.” (Via Jim Roepcke.)
I hesitate to point to things like this, however interesting, because people get the idea that grown-up Objective-C programming is like this. It’s not. It’s important to understand your environment and know what’s possible, but in most real-world cases this is not the type of optimization a Cocoa program needs. (I say most, but not all, of course.)
Wed, 28 May 2008 04:15:18 GMT
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Port Map and TCMPortMapper
TheCodingMonkeys: “Some times you want to access your computers at home from anywhere in the world. Be it the web server on your home server, the file sharing on your desktop machine or a remote login to your parent’s computer to support them doing their work. This is where the application ‘Port Map’ might come handy.” (New software from the SubEthaEdit folks.)
Side note: check out the screenshot and note how iPhone-style On/Off widgets appear in the app. I’ve also seen this in VPN Tracker. I wonder if we’ll see it in more apps, and if it will become a standard part of the Mac user interface.
Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:58:53 GMT
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Mad Bundle
Mike Lee: “The answer is that most American of ideas—cut out the middle man. I don’t know a single Mac developer who’s in it for the money. Everyone I know does this for the love of good work and the sincere desire to make the world a better place.”
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:27:21 GMT
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The Nerd Handbook
Rands In Repose: “He sees the world as a system which, given enough time and effort, is completely knowable. This is a fragile illusion that your nerd has adopted, but it’s a pleasant one that gets your nerd through the day.”
Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:31:53 GMT
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Radioshift: Radio on your schedule
Rogue Amoeba: “With Radioshift, you control Internet and AM/FM radio from around the world. Listen and record—Radioshift is radio on your schedule!” Looks very cool. Congrats to our friends at Rogue Amoeba!
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:01:11 GMT
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MarsEdit 2.0 released
Red Sweater Blog: “The reaction to the public release was almost immediate, so I couldn’t go to sleep quite as instantly as planned. When I finally did grab some shuteye, I woke up to a world on fire with MarsEdit joy!”
Congratulations to Daniel! I’ve been using MarsEdit 2.0 throughout the beta period, and I totally dig 2.0. Very cool app. ;)
Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:49:10 GMT
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On becoming a programmer
Mike Lee: “I often say that anyone can learn to program, but you have to be born a programmer.”
There are, roughly, two types of programmers. One type was in the computer club at high school and got a computer science degree (or two or three). The other type, well, didn’t—they were English majors, college dropouts, busboys, artists, odd-job-doers. (Cue Captain Renault: “That makes Rick a citizen of the world.”)
My advice to young people is to get a computer science degree, if for no other reason than you can avoid those odd jobs and get right to the programming. And it also gives you an early chance to find out if you were, in fact, born a programmer.
But one of the things I love about developing software is that nobody asks for your education background before trying your software. If they like it, cool, and if not, not.
Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:08:48 GMT
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Cocoa Shaders
Kickingbear Blog: “Indie Mac Shop has, likely, one maybe two programmers and some contact with a part time artist who may well be on contract. Perhaps they may do the artwork themselves, taking time away from their coding. Either way art, in the indie dev world, is harder to come by than code.” (Via Gus Mueller.)
Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:08:10 GMT
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Replacing AppleScript with Ruby
Matt Neuburg, MacDevCenter.com: “I’ll explain how to download and install rb-appscript. I’ll discuss the basics of rb-appscript usage and show how to develop a simple ‘hello world’ script. Finally, I’ll rewrite the Ruby-AppleScript example from my book to use Ruby with rb-appscript instead.”
Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:29:46 GMT
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Imagining a world without DRM
Macworld: Editors’ Notes: “Steve Jobs may not be exactly reticent, but neither would I call him randomly demonstrative. Rarely do you see him respond to criticisms of Apple, except in the context of interview sound bites. For him to, say, author an open letter on the state of Digital Rights Management is, if not unprecedented, at least very very rare.”
Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:17:22 GMT
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Introducing Dashcode
Apple Developer Connection: “Created to meet the needs of widget developers, Dashcode combines powerful visual layout tools with a code editor, debugger, and comprehensive package management into a world-class integrated development environment.”
Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:22:39 GMT
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