http://theocacao.com/ TheobromaCacao: 0x348b60 http://theocacao.com/images/favicon.png http://theocacao.com/ en-us scott@treehouseideas.com Copyright 2004 2009-11-10T22:03:37-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/609 609@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ Briefs framework, created by Rob Rhyne, gives you a way to quickly build working prototypes of iPhone applications. It made a big splash at C4, and has generated quite a bit of buzz with Cocoa/UI nerds. Rob has agreed to speak at CocoaHeads on Thursday, November 12 at 7pm. The meeting is in Garage 1 at Infinite Loop 4 at Apple. This is a new talk covering iPhone design techniques, using Briefs as part of the workflow...]]> scott General 2009-11-10T22:02:25-08:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/608 608@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ already wrote about Doug Bowman's story of how Google prefers data over designer judgement. But something stuck with me about this story. I didn't feel like I had really gotten to the heart of it, and I couldn't put my finger on why that was. Until now...]]> scott General 2009-10-18T17:40:36-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/607 607@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ really like the thing you're writing about. Fortunately, I really like making Mac software and teaching other people about it, so O'Reilly asked me to turn that into a book...]]> scott General 2009-09-27T22:36:37-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/606 606@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ scott General 2009-06-01T00:02:37-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/605 605@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ general request on Twitter, asking what specifically the biggest obstacle was when you first started learning Cocoa. Out of the roughly 118 responses I got back, no one topic completely dominated...]]> scott General 2009-05-16T15:18:52-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/604 604@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster, who will share what he's learned while writing his first iPhone app. I'm told this is the first time the app will be shown to the general public, so you may get to see something special...]]> scott General 2009-04-21T00:32:16-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/603 603@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ not use a dedicated Twitter client because I wanted to have a natural barrier between me and another distraction. But Tweetie for Mac has changed my opinion. The joy of using it so clearly outweighs the risk that I'm officially in...]]> scott General 2009-04-18T22:50:00-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/602 602@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ scottstevenson, and it seems that it's been going pretty well. I also started describing one class or method each day from @cocoadevcentral — sort of "learn Cocoa 140 characters at at time." Just thought you might want to know...]]> scott General 2009-04-10T22:11:06-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/601 601@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ 280 North will speak at the next CocoaHeads Silicon Valley meeting, this Thursday, March 26 at 7pm. We'll get first-hand demo of the new Atlas application which was unveiled at the Future of Web Apps Conference last month. Atlas is a visual design tool for Cappuccino, as Interface Builder is on the Mac...]]> scott General 2009-03-24T00:58:03-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/600 600@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ John Gruber and Buzz Anderson have commented on the experiences of former design lead at Google, Doug Bowman. Doug's observation is that at Google, every design decision must be backed by data. In essence, you must prove you're right. The post is quite short, but it resonates with me because I've seen the same thing at other companies...]]> scott General 2009-03-21T16:45:07-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/599 599@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ Mike Lee (United Lemur, Tapulous, Delicious Monster) will speak at the next CocoaHeads on Tuesday, January 6 at the Apple Store in San Francisco. Mike will give an updated 2.0 version of his popular Pimp My App presentation for this special meeting during Macworld...]]> scott General 2009-01-02T23:12:06-08:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/598 598@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ Google Earth for iPhone (app store) — one of most interesting early iPhone apps from a big-name developer. Sony has graciously offered to host us this time at their San Jose campus...]]> scott General 2008-12-09T00:47:18-08:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/597 597@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ Introduction to iPhone Development at CocoaHeads Silicon Valley this Thursday, November 13 at 7:00pm. This meeting will be at Intuit (Quicken/QuickBooks) headquarters in Mountain View. Update: Here's a campus map with parking info...]]> scott General 2008-11-11T01:30:12-08:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/596 596@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ Phusion Passenger (aka mod_rails) and Ruby Enterprise Edition. Passenger works beautifully, but REE crashes on startup each time. This seems to be specific to 64-bit Leopard Server — Tiger Server works fine...]]> scott General 2008-11-05T13:56:15-08:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/595 595@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ but I'm not really animating anything" response...]]> scott General 2008-10-02T13:28:40-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/594 594@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ open source, which obviously is the core of the iPhone OS as well. It doesn't include all of the stuff at the GUI layer, but there is a ton of code in there that is generally kept in sync with current consumer product releases...]]> scott General 2008-09-26T20:22:27-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/593 593@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ 280 Slides, which is an exceptionally polished Keynote-like presentation app for the web. The creators, 280 North, today published the framework and language used to create it, called Cappuccino and Objective-J, respectively. I only had a few hours to play with both, so keep in mind this is a very early review...]]> scott General 2008-09-04T22:28:01-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/592 592@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ Marathon Flag Football. The event set a new world record for the longest continually-played flag football game — over 24 hours. I wrote the game clock, and it turns out Core Animation is fantastic for this...]]> scott General 2008-09-01T15:17:53-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/591 591@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ Kodak Zi6 is a handheld, flash-memory-based video camera. You press the power button, wait about a second for it to start up, then hit the record button. Hit the record button again and the video is saved. Just plug it into a USB port and drag the video files to the desktop...]]> scott General 2008-08-20T15:21:54-07:00 http://theocacao.com/document.page/590 590@http://theobroma.treehouseideas.com/ though not all) of these come from the Twitter account...]]> scott General 2008-08-17T01:57:43-07:00