A Sprinkle of Cocoa

Recently, I've had two passions in my life as a consumer. I've been dreaming of finally moving on from my 2003 Honda Civic, and buyi...

So, one day, out of the blue, I could not open the little hatch to get gas into my 2003 Honda Civic. Going online, I found this is a fairly ...

I decided to release as open source (MIT license) my collection of Objective-C classes that can parse out the schedule information from ATSC...

Yesterday, my former coworker Alan Gorman died of cancer at 51. Alan and I were hired a month apart at the then CambridgeSoft to work on...

For many years, I've been a happy member of Amazon Vine, taking frequent deliveries of random consumer items for review and then keeping...

Had a pleasant time at WWDC. As is my habit, I spent most of my time in the labs going over every issue I had that had vexed me. One of the ...

Here is a screen capture of my app TV Towers USA  as it looked in the iOS App Store on May 2, 2015: May 2, 2015 (or so) And here is wh...

About a year and a half ago, I left myself a Reminder on my iPhone to make an educational video about creating path elements in SVG documen...

At every Mac hardware launch event, Phil Shiller will go through the features of the latest/greatest and towards the end will bring up the E...

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...