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. […]
Continue reading SGMimiMailer - A Cocoa Wrapper For Mad Mimi...
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 […]
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. […]
Continue reading SGHotKeysLib - A Modern Fork Of PTHotKeysLib...
Something that’s always been a bit of a hack in Mac OS X Leopard is settings your application to launch at login per a user preference. Prior to Leopard it involved open the user’s loginwindow.plist file and manually adding/removing it from there or using Apple’s System Events sample. Luckily with Leopard, Apple has offered a […]
Continue reading Adding an application to Login Items in Mac OS X Leopard...
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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