The latest version of my primary Mac application Today is now available. This version fixes a few issues users were running into when trying to use Today in conjunction with Snow Leopard’s Exchange support. It also adds a few UI niceties that I’ve wanted to get to for a while: hovering over an event will now show the location if it exists and event/task windows now show calendar colors.
The interesting thing to take away from this release is that I’m starting to feel like I’m hitting a ton of brick walls when it comes to NSTableView. A lot things I want to implement or adjust are starting to become either impossible or requiring of really funk code hacks to get them working. An investigation into switching to NSCollectionView is in my future.
Ever wonder what apps are on my iPhone’s homescreen? Now you know.
Martin Pilkington responds to my blog post yesterday on a modern app architecture with a slightly different approach to the sample app. He extracts the Core Data implementation out of AppDelegate and into its own set of classes as well as relies more on KVO than abusing NSArrayController through Interface Builder. His version also uses Rentzsch’s excellent MOGenerator to generate the Core Data classes. My personal coding style is somewhere between my sample and his. I highly recommend checking out both and drawing your own conclusions.
If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you’ve probably seen me make reference to @secondgear.app 3.0. I am indeed working on a third app to put in the garage, and it is also offering me the opportunity to get acquainted with a lot of technologies I haven’t exactly used outside of staring at some samples […]
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Congrats to Mike Zornek on shipping ProfitTrain, a major update to his invoice tracking software. The icon is gorgeous.
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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