As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been spending the past few weeks working on a new iOS application called Elements. Elements shipped this week and its success has far exceeded my meager expectations. Elements was built to scratch a small itch I had. For the past four years I have been writing […]
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FilterTwitter
Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows that I have a really awesome username: @justin. Having your first name as your username on a really popular is some sort of nerd nirvana. People ask me my Twitter name, I just tell them my first name. No weird nicknames or names with a number sequence afterwards. […]
SGMimiMailer - A Cocoa Wrapper For Mad Mimi
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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An Xcode Template For GHUnit
One of my personal goals for 2010 is to finally adopt unit testing in my project lifecycles. I’ve long meant to do something like this, but the amount of effort it takes to get a project up and running using Xcode’s OCUnit integration was a big detractor. It’s workflow also left much to be desired […]
- Today 1.8.2 Now Available ✶
A new release that resolves a few niggling issues that were bugging me. Most importantly, task sorting should more closely mimic that of iCal.
Back To The Mac
I’m pleased to announce that BitBQ, also known as the corporate entity in front of Mr. Patrick Burleson (@pbur), has acquired both FitnessTrack and Emergency Information from my company Second Gear. The Backstory Back in July I wrote: I no longer enjoy building software for the iPhone because of the bureaucracy and infrastructure that surrounds […]
Check Off 4.0 Released
I am pleased to announce the release of something that has long been in the works: a major update to Check Off. Check Off is a quick to-do list that sits in your Mac’s menu bar. Simply click the check mark and your personal to-do list will drop down. This release focuses on modernizing the […]
SGHotKeysLib - A Modern Fork Of PTHotKeysLib
One of the projects going on in the Second Gear labs is upgrading both Today and Check Off to run as native 64 bit applications. This involves a lot of rewiring of numbers to use the modern NSInteger/NSUInteger, removal of deprecated and removed method calls and hoping that your dependent libraries are updated as well. […]
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Track my workday via @secondgear
Brent Simmons, Internet superstar and developer of NetNewsWire, recently started tweeting his workday. Brent describes it as coding as a performance. It’s a fairly good idea, so I’ve decided to shamelessly rip off the idea and use the Second Gear Twitter account to document what exactly is being worked on here in the lab. If […]
Today 1.8: Better Snow Leopard Compatibility
I’m happy to announce that Today 1.8 is now available. Version 1.8 is a minor update to address a few Snow Leopard issues I was running into as I’m starting to use the new operating system more. The new release also improves the French localization and should launch a bit faster than before. As always, […]
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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 Mac and iOS software.
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