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 […]
Continue reading Getting Started With Core Data, Bindings and NSViewController...
You may have heard that I don’t do iPhone or iPad development at this time. That said, it’d be silly to not keep track of what Apple is up to with the platform they care for most.
When Apple releases developer beta tools for the mobile platforms, I don’t install the tools on my main […]
Continue reading Install Beta Developer Tools In Sparse Disk Images...
While at NSConference, I had a chat with Dave Dribin and Jamie Pinkham about why Xcode could be a better IDE. They both asserted that it could be more than it is. Having never used another IDE seriously, I asked both of them what features were missing from Xcode that made other environments […]
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 […]
Continue reading Serial Numbers Are Dead. Long Live Serials....
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 […]
Mercurial 1.4.1 was released last week. It’s obviously a minor update compared to what 1.4 was, but it does include a really neat built-in extension: schemes
Let’s say you are like me and want to push your code up to your project’s Kiln repository. This involves typing something along the lines of:
hg […]
I ran into a pretty frustrating bug earlier this week. A few weeks ago I decided to flip the switch from GCC 4.2 to Clang 1.0 for building Check Off. Everything seemed to be working in my testing on my development machine, but as I was doing my Mac OS X Leopard sanity […]
Continue reading Clang. Garbage Collection. Leopard. Boom....
Ever since Gruber linked to the new Mac OS X Automation site, I’ve been a bit obsessed with finding ways to automate workflows and tedious tasks I do on my Mac. With Snow Leopard’s newly enhanced services functionality, it’s much easier to do than ever before.
One thing I’ve long wanted to automate […]
One of my new years resolutions was to turn Second Gear into a paperless office. To start that resolution off right I recently picked up a Fujitsu S510M. The S510M comes with a full version of Adobe Acrobat Professional, but I’ve always found Acrobat to be too bloated for me to use without […]
Continue reading Automatic OCR Conversion with PDFpen and Folder Actions...
When I first decided to pursue Today as a new development venture I knew going in that I didn’t want to spend 6 months building every possible feature I could think of into it. Not only was it not financially viable, but it’s counter-productive in a sense.
I’m a big fan of foundation releases. In other […]
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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In addition to this site I am frequently posting thoughts on Twitter, photos on Flickr and everything else to Tumblr.
