Lessons Learned: Code Journal Early Release

As you may know Code Journal had its early release last week and it has been a pretty good experience so far. I got lots of great feedback from users and have already been able to update the application based on that feedback.  The purpose of this post is to share...

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Bad Synchronous Call! Bad!

Back in the dark old days of Commodore 64 and its brethren computers were pretty much all synchronous; instructions executed one after the other, one at a time. It was a simpler time. Users did expect a responsive UI during slow operations or so I have been told....

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Programming Pitfalls: Bit in the ARC

Apple’s ARC (automatic reference counting) for Mac and iOS devices is intended to make Cocoa development easier. For the most part it does. However, in using it I have encountered a bit of a pitfall: by default the compiler does not optimize your code in debugging but...

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NSTask 100

I’ll get right to the point here. Reinventing the wheel is bad. Period. End of sentence. If you have a requirement that can be met by an acceptably licensed open-source software project and you are not using that project, then you are likely adding unneeded complexity...

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