A Sprinkle of Cocoa

[Update: I've posted a video about installing a bathroom speaker using an Airport Express as part of an Amazon review of a SpeakerCraf...

Marvell just announced a 5 W Linux box with a USB 2.0 port and Gigabit ethernet, the SheevaPlug . This is a full Linux server with a 1.2 GH...

[Update: Lullabies is now in the app store. Check it out.] I recently submitted Lullabies an iPhone App to Apple. They reviewed it for a f...

[Update: Lullabies is now in the app store. Check it out.] I have 2 young children, and the familiarity and dexterity they show in using th...

If you insert your iPhone's headset into your iPhone, and then plug an iPhone to USB connector into the bottom connector, the phone has ...

Last week, my co-worker Gerald came to my cube saying his PowerMac G5 was consistently locking up after starting up and bringing up Entourag...

My MythTV records over the air broadcasts as .mpg (MPEG) files of several gigabytes each. My preferred mode of viewing them these days is to...

As a father of young children, I have some advice for my fellow software engineers in similar boats who want time for their side projects. A...

I was sent a bug report on some software I had written a while back wherein it would become less and less responsive over time till it just ...

The big extravagance at the house this year is replacing the cheapest looking vinyl shower you ever saw with a very nice tile and glass bloc...

One thing you want in C++ compilers is consistency with other C++ compilers. Especially if you are doing cross-platform development work. I ...

This is one of those blog posts where the author has two data points and has to write an entire entry about those points. Here is the data: ...

The company I work for is interested in Microsoft's .NET framework; I am not. But, I was scrounging for free content on iTunes the othe...

Developing for the iPhone and iPod Touch is nice: limited hardware differences leads to reliability. If it works on my iPhone running the 2....

As I occasionally let on, my day job is the care and feeding of an ancient, semi-well known, Carbon application (and worse its Win32 doppleg...

I think we've all seen the stories about some guy in New Zealand making $6K a day for a Choplifter clone, or another fellow making $250K...

Needing a license compatible implementation of UPnP I could use to locate MythTV frontends, I made the mistake of using the C++ version of ...

Earlier in the year, I posted a blog entry about how Apple, obviously, must be getting ready to release a new version of iTunes based upon ...

iPhone development has re-energized my love of programming. My day job requires me to do too much Win32 coding, and that is soul deadening f...

[Update: It's finally in the iTunes App Store .] I submitted my second iPhone application to the App Store this morning. Signal GH is a...