A Sprinkle of Cocoa

I had written this entry weeks ago, meaning to do some more research before posting it, and I had forgotten it with my busy work schedule, b...

I don't know when the 'styl' resource was defined, but I do know it is very, very old. For those not in the know, back in the da...

My dad is an interesting, and smart guy. He left retail banking 20 years ago to start a software company in his basement, then transitioned ...

A desperate Google searcher emailed me today asking about getting together an XCode project for a Netscape style plugin. Since this, apparen...

I ran into trouble building WebKit (Safari) on my MacBook. When I entered the command to build it % WebKit/WebKitTools/Scripts/build-webkit...

If you are creating or maintaining Netscape style browser plugins on the Mac, you must get the nightly build of the open source version of S...

I've been contracted by Train Player International to help port their TrackLayer model railroad design software to OS X. It has been go...

I've been watching the DealRAM prices for 8GB Compact Flash modules. My intent has been to upgrade my wife's 4GB Pink iPod Mini whi...

My wife has an X23 series model 2662 IBM ThinkPad. For years, she's avoided using the TrackPoint pointing device embedded in the keyboar...

[Update: check out Signal GH , an iPhone utility for monitoring the signal quality of an HDHomerun]. I've been running the MythTV Fronte...

This post is along the way of a reminder to myself should I ever have to figure out how my application's plist has caused the Launch Ser...

Just a helpful hint to try and prevent your wasting time like we did at my day job. We have a large C++ application which has several differ...

[Update: check out Signal GH , an iPhone utility for monitoring the signal quality of an HDHomerun]. I have a PCHDTV 3000 PCI card in the D...

I have a two year old Dell 20.1" widescreen LCD display (2005FPW). I also have three LG LST-3510A HDTV receiver/DVD players. Just so an...

All of a sudden an XCode project which I was sharing with a collaborator refused to be debugged. The debugger was evidently exiting unexpect...

This is an odd and frustrating warning I was seeing while using the templated singleton class which comes with the boost C++ libraries whil...

Just posted some fixes I did over the last several hours in a new release .

Google has a bunch of Dashboard Widgets out today. Just testing to see how that works.

If you program, you need a version control system. We've all heard it, we all know it. But it's a trouble to setup and a pain in the...

In my day job, I spend a lot of time compiling and linking a fairly large commercial C++ application. My PowerBook G4 was not up to the task...