A Sprinkle of Cocoa

If you hired a coder to write an iPhone app, you would expect the source code along with a delivered binary. Similarly, if you hire a graphi...

So, I have been pretty unhappy with my MythTV for the last week, as something was seriously wrong with it. It would work for a while and the...

So, I pushed the button and upgraded the MythBuntu box in the basement, and bad things happened. Oh, the new MythTV interface is lovely. But...

"best RDP" reviews my Signal GH iPhone app for HDHomerun Title: "piece of junk" Body:"This thing is worthless until...

I'm used to my Macs being reliable; of going months between forced restarts. And yet, two weeks ago, I found myself restarting my unibod...

A few months ago, I noticed an invitation to join Amazon Vine program on my Amazon front page. I clicked on it, realized it wasn't a sca...

A comment in UIScrollView.h // override points. default is to call touch methods on the content subview. if -touchesShouldCancelInContentVie...

Apple has sent me a notice that version 1.1.3 of Signal GH—my iPhone app to get the signal quality of OTA TV broadcasts with an HDHomerun—is...

My son, Wil, wanted to paint on my unibody Macbook this evening. He turned four in September and this was the first time he'd wanted to ...

When I upgraded to Xcode 3.2 along with Snow Leopard, the output to the console was filled with apparently random garbage, and lots of white...

I just noticed that the episode of DotNetRocks is up.

When I recorded a recent episode of DotNetRocks I recorded my side of the conversation so that the sound engineers would have a cleaner cop...

“I’m a Mac programmer, and a Mac user, and we are arrogant people. And we love beauty.” I've never been a guest on a podcast before, so ...

Recently, the DotNetRocks Podcast had an episode where the guest spent an hour slamming Xcode, Objective-C, and the Cocoa frameworks, and h...

I was taking my daily glance through MacSurfer when I was struck by a press release from WaveMetrics announcing a new version of Igor, the...

A little noted part of Monday's WWDC keynote was the final feature set for Safari 4. Safari now has searching of browsing history. This ...

So, I have my free MythTV remote in the iPhone App Store and it only has a 2 star average rating. Not exactly a Gaussian distribution. I th...

When I sat down to learn iPhone development, I settled on writing a remote control for MythTV as a first product. And thus Remote Remote GH...

I have children. Children love to destroy audio headsets, whether it be tearing out the ear padding, chewing up the wind guard, or taking a ...

Here is a picture of good intentions. It's my little bookshelf of mainly technical books, right next to the big desk in the basement. An...