Category Archives: Programming

Admission is the first step in recovery

Sorry about the gap between posts. I’ve been super busy. I know, that’s not a good excuse. I’ll try to do better the future. Really, I will. I’ll tell you what though, I’m glad that we’ve made up. Hugandkiss. A … Continue reading

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A memory leak in the alluvial dampers

The last few days I’ve been spending some quality time with my friend Shark doing a lot of performance testing. I actually kind of like that sort of work. I also have a feeling I was dropped a lot as … Continue reading

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malloc Wii Fit

I knew I wanted to write a blog post today and I really had two choices. 1. Join in the debate over whether or not you need to know C in order to be a real programmer. 2. Talk about … Continue reading

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Space shuttles and higher quality without the junk food

Isn’t fun to be blamed for doing something wrong when writing code? Nothing quite like having QA, or even worse a customer, find some major issue with something you wrote. Writing software is a hugely personal thing; there is a … Continue reading

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Xcode 3 Tutorial Part 3: Writing a QuickLook plug-in

So I finally got around to uploading a new Xcode howto video. This time it is an example of how to write a custom QuickLook plug-in using Seapine’s SoloBug application. You’ll also notice that this time I’m using Viddler instead … Continue reading

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The most unscientific survey ever

There are a number of good software blogs that I read but there are two that always catch my attention when I see an update scroll through on the RSS feed. Steve Yegge from Google. Wil Shipley from Delicious Monster. … Continue reading

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Automator: I’ve got the hammer, but I can’t find a nail

One of the lesser talked about Apple applications that I’ve long been interested in is Automator. I first heard about it with the rest of the world in the WWDC 2004 keynote and I remember thinking something like, “That’s nice.” … Continue reading

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