A Sprinkle of Cocoa

I'm trying to find customers for my Chemistry Keyboard  extension for iOS 8, so I've been doing things like searching for questions ...

To learn a computer language, you have to write something in that language, just reading the book doesn't help much. So when Swift was...

Apple announced a new Mac Mini last week. I had been waiting for the news as my current situation leads me to program at my desk 95% of the...

Last week, I recorded an episode of . Net Rocks  about what it's like learning Apple's new Swift language. I think it went well enou...

I had a strange experience over the week involving my local, Nashua, NH, Apple Store. It all started when my Apple Thunderbolt Display start...

In January, I purchased a copy of the 'Culture Shock' episode of 90 Day Fiancé.  And ever since it's been shown as the most rece...

A couple months ago, my MacBook Pro stopped booting reliably. It would just sit at the Apple screen and spin, sometimes all night. I could u...

I am not used to getting 1 star reviews against TV Towers USA . My small niche of RV enthusiasts are usually a happy lot. However, I made th...

As an iOS developer, I'm often forced by my development tools to make support decisions. Xcode running on OS X 10.9 no longer allows me ...

For reasons I won't get into, I took the Salesforce Dev Certification exam this week. Salesforce, for those who don't deal in enterp...

Apple has been kind enough to accept my iOS App for reading TV schedules from an  HDHomerun  network TV tuner: Schedules GH . The first ques...

I've spent the last several days putting the finishing touches on open-sourcing my code for rendering SVG:  SVGgh . This is the first ti...

One of the multitude of problems with alerting potential users to my apps is getting independent reviews, and when an app requires special h...

I recorded an episode of The Tablet Show  this week where I talked about what I've learned about writing an app for the Kids section of ...

Today I saw this review for Signal GH my HDHomerun utility: Don't buy if you're in Europe 1 Star Bought this without detecting tha...

I've been thinking a lot about gestures lately. I submitted a kids drawing app, Frog Draw, to the App Store this week, and while I'm...

I know many people when faced with the task of making an icon will fire up Photoshop and start pushing pixels. But lately, when graphics are...

I heard about Solid Signal Blog  on the HTGuys podcast, and sent them a copy of my TV Towers USA app, and they gave it a very positive revi...

I take product reviewing seriously, and my Top 500 Reviewer badge on Amazon (#200 as of this morning but steadily getting worse) means more ...

This summer, 2013, I spent June traveling in China with my wife, children and an assortment of Apple devices. This blog item is about power ...