I hate XCode but really want to love it. Most Cocoa developers have had more than a few bad experiences with XCode where it has crashed more than once in a day, magically, lost track of files, failed to warn you of naming conflicts in assets, or simply dead-locked...
Review: Revolution in the Valley
Revolution in the Valley is the story of that first Apple development team that brought the world the Macintosh and in doing so changed computing history by making the computer a personal item focused on communication rather than computation. Popular mythology...
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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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Mac’s are very popular among creative professionals ranging from the user interface designer who designed your favorite iPhone app to the starving videographer who is just starting to break into the field via Youtube and Vimeo. Recently, I have taken the plunge into...
Pro Tip: Adding External Themes to XCode
I’ve been looking for a new color scheme for Vim and XCode for some time. In Apple’s defense the XCode default theme is pretty good, but after several hours of programming the light colors can get a little straining on the eyes, so I experimented with a number of the...
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Under normal conditions a healthy rivalry among developers and users of different software platforms can lead to the betterment of both platforms; a classic example of this is the Mac OS X / Windows debate. However, there is something happening in the mobile arena,...
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