John C Abell writing about Steve Jobs’s recent employee town hall quotables:
On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says. Someone else asks something on a different topic, but there’s no getting Jobs off this rant. I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing, he says. This don’t be evil mantra: “It’s bullshit.”
(via Layton Duncan)
Usually one of the last things I do before shipping a major product release is add in some sort of registration system. It is an unfortunate, yet necessary evil that adds nothing to the user experience, but helps keep honest users honest. I never implement registration systems thinking they will be immune to crackers and […]
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One of the my professional goals for 2010 is to improve the accessibility support of Check Off and Today. Martin Pilkington put the bug in my ear almost a year ago when he pledged to make all of his products accessible. Minim 2 is in fact one of the products I’ve been using as a […]
Michael Tyson offers some tips on getting code coverage set up on your unit tested Snow Leopard applications. I just discovered this blog via my referral logs and he has quite a few gems.
The meat is OBJC_PRINT_REPLACED_METHODS=YES.
Extendmac:
EMKeychain is a Cocoa wrapper class for Keychain, which has unfortunately been frozen in carbonite. It’s much cleaner than interfacing with keychain yourself.
After what can only be described as one of the craziest and one of the most rewarding weeks of my life, I wanted to again thank everyone who participated, blogged about or purchased software as a part of Indie+Relief. Indie+Relief was a resounding success and is entirely due to the awesome Apple community. Traffic Numbers […]
One of the unfortunate parts of Indie+Relief was having to cut off new submissions on Monday. Rest assured, when we do this again someday, we’ll have a far better (and automated) system so anyone who wants to participate can. I asked on Twitter for people who were participating in Indie+Relief, but not listed on the […]
Less than a week ago, I thought it’d be a nice idea to get a few of my friends in the Mac community together to donate our sales for a single day to Haitian relief charity. Several days later, that little idea has grown into 135 Mac & iPhone companies joining the cause. If you’d […]
One of my favorite new blogs is Dan Wood’s software marketing blog. Dan writes a post or so a week with tips and best practices for independent developers like myself to improve our marketing efforts. In a recent post, he wrote about email lists being an excellent way to engage with potential and existing customers. […]
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Hi. I'm Justin Williams and this is my weblog. I am the crew chief of Second Gear, a purveyor of fine Macintosh and iPhone software.
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