May 24 — 1
I was reading this site, which lists questions that people have been asked during interviews for programming or IT positions. Many of the questions are strange or just inappropriate. For example
May 20 — 3
I've had a new office "waiting" for several months, but I'm at the point where I'm looking for a plan B. There no budget to put down money for two separate locations, so I'm looking for a trade arrangement, or at least a significant discount.
The folks in Tree House Ideas camp can tackle any technical or design task you can come up with. Cocoa, Mac OS X, visual/interaction design, PHP and SQL are specialties. Training and technical writing are also options. The basic value proposition is that you get on-site help and we get somewhere to work. It's a great deal for both parties.
If you think we might have a match, drop me an email. My first name @ treehouseideas.com. The location must be in the south bay.
The folks in Tree House Ideas camp can tackle any technical or design task you can come up with. Cocoa, Mac OS X, visual/interaction design, PHP and SQL are specialties. Training and technical writing are also options. The basic value proposition is that you get on-site help and we get somewhere to work. It's a great deal for both parties.
If you think we might have a match, drop me an email. My first name @ treehouseideas.com. The location must be in the south bay.
May 15 — 2
I recently ordered Speakeasy's VoIP service, and I'm really happy with it so far. The gist is that I pay $24 a month for unlimited national calling (plus the United States of Canada). It also comes with all of the phone features that usually cost extra, like caller ID, call waiting, voicemail
May 04 — 2
I found this discussion surprising. Some people in the thread expressed concern that Core Data might somehow prevent you from using instance variables. I was shocked to find anybody wants to manage simple value ivars. I think you only stand to benefit by eliminating
May 03 — 3
I don't have any further plans to work on DataCrux for now. I've known about Core Data for a while (well before WWDC 2004), but I kept working on DataCrux because Tiger was still a ways off.
I realize Core Data is not an option for everyone, but working on DataCrux now would mean I'd be one person attempting to replicate the work of a team of people who have access to the source of Cocoa itself. More to the point, I'd have to charge money for it to justify the time. It is of course, open source, so somebody else could
I realize Core Data is not an option for everyone, but working on DataCrux now would mean I'd be one person attempting to replicate the work of a team of people who have access to the source of Cocoa itself. More to the point, I'd have to charge money for it to justify the time. It is of course, open source, so somebody else could
May 02 — 8
I posted two new tutorials on Core Data at Cocoa Dev Central. Build a Core Data Application is a straight walkthrough of building an application from scratch. Core Data Class Overview is a conceptual tutorial, which paints a broader picture of the landscape. There are a few code snippets, but it describes the use of each class in the framework, as well as some
May 02 — 2
And there was much rejoicing. Not only did the first new episode of Family Guy finally surface last night, but it came with American Dad in tow. Flint busting out of the bathroom stall just brought a
Apr 19 — 7
Tiger's Spotlight and Longhorn's search functionality seem quite similar, but Microsoft says that they had the idea first. CNET has an article on this topic. Here are some things to consider
Apr 16 — 0
It's easy to miss, but quite amazing: All 200 new features in Tiger. There are also innumerable minor improvements throughout the system can't be described in the format of that particular page.
Apr 15 — 0
Wow, I somehow missed this yesterday:
456,000 of them were consumer desktops (iMac/Mac mini/eMac). Just wait until these folks get ahold of Tiger.
Apple shipped 1,070,000 Macintosh units and 5,311,000 iPods during the quarter, representing a 43 percent increase in CPU units...
456,000 of them were consumer desktops (iMac/Mac mini/eMac). Just wait until these folks get ahold of Tiger.
Apr 09 — 1
U2 is playing in San Jose tonight. I'll be there. :)
Apr 08 — 2
I find the selection of web display fonts on Mac OS X rather lacking. There isn't a lot to choose from when it comes to using a font that is both aesthetically pleasing and easy to read. I've tried all sorts of options for Theocacao, for example
Apr 07 — 4
It looks like there's some confusion on various open source licenses. I'm not a lawyer, but here's a simplified interpretation of some of the more popular licenses
Apr 07 — 10
I recently started playing around with Javascript a bit more. I've used it for a lot of the more common tasks in the past: hiding/showing layers, rollovers, popups, and so on. Now I'm starting to look at the language and object model in more depth. There are some interesting surprises
Mar 21 — 3
MOKit is a framework which offers a bunch of canned functionality to Cocoa developers. Some general highlights
Mar 17 — 3
A few well-know columnists have posted their opinions on Apple's dispute with rumor sites. A few odd things have turned up, though. For some reason, these columnists keep referring to the rumor sites as "blogs." I can't see how this applies, so I'm guessing it's just due to fact that blog became a buzzword during the presidential election. I've also seen the rumor sites referred to as "fan sites." While the people that run them are typically fans of the platform, these aren't fan sites in the truest sense. What the sites do is...
Mar 15 — 3
NSSortDescriptor is Cocoa's standard class for sorting an NSTableView (or NSArray) by multiple criteria. Sort descriptors are created automatically when the user clicks on a column, but there are a number of situations where you need to create them in code. The API is really simple but the process of getting these things into the table is fairly verbose. Here's a clean and simple way to automate the process, using a category with varargs as input
Mar 04 — 3
Anybody interested in a Newton MessagePad 120? I imagine it doesn't have much cash value so I'd like to trade for something of similar sentimental value. Maybe something NeXT-related or some early Apple stuff.
The MessagePad appears to work just fine, though it looks like the backup battery needs to be replaced. Very minor (almost invisible) superficial scratches on the exterior only. Click through for photos. Either post a comment or email me at my first name at treehouseideas.com if you're interested.
The MessagePad appears to work just fine, though it looks like the backup battery needs to be replaced. Very minor (almost invisible) superficial scratches on the exterior only. Click through for photos. Either post a comment or email me at my first name at treehouseideas.com if you're interested.
Mar 03 — 21
I've been playing Metroid Prime 2 for GameCube in my spare time. This type of game has apparently hit a nerve with gamers, considering the incredible success of Halo 2 (now topping 5 million units?). The verdict is that I think Metroid 2 is overall better than the first, but it's simply way too hard
Feb 28 — 1
What a fantastic invention. After a week with the Mac mini, I can say I'm incredibly satisfied. The silence alone is almost worth it. I feel like I've reclaimed my sound environment (soon to be followed by my floor space). The mini is so quiet, in fact, that I
Feb 21 — 2
It's a thing of beauty. Click through for some photos, including one detail I hadn't noticed before
Feb 20 — 4
I've received a few reports of fractional page loads on Cocoa Dev Central. Based on descriptions, it seems as though some data isn't making it to the browser. If anybody sees this, please send me
Feb 18 — 0
SQLite 3.1.2 is out. This release is essentially the stable implementation of the SQLite 3.1 enhancements.
Feb 16 — 4
Apple just announced some initial details for WWDC 2005, and developers are no doubt evaluating whether they'll attend this year. For those that don't know, the "hook" for WWDC over the last few years has been that walking through the door entitled you to a developer preview of the next version of Mac OS X. Last year's attendees were given an early seed of
Feb 11 — 5
I was at the Fry's in Sunnyvale last night and had to ask where the iPods were. It turns out they had been placed in a locked cage underneath the main Mac counter. I believe Fry's does this
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