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December 29, 2006
Dock icon update
Non-square album art is working again as shown in the screenshot below (see yesterday's post for an image showing the incorrect behaviour): At the same time I took the opportunity to implement customizability for the badge size, position and border...More Development articles
Posted by wincent at 5:24 PM
Involuntary Reboot log #7
This was a novel one and the first non-kernel panic involuntary reboot I've ever had with the iMac. Today I was waiting for a compile to finish and was wishing a friend a merry Christmas over IM when I noticed...More Involuntary Reboot Log articles
Posted by wincent at 5:06 PM
December 28, 2006
Core Image Fun House
With every major release of Mac OS X Apple delivers some delicious new APIs to developers. I've missed out on these a lot in the past because I've wanted my products to support older versions of Mac OS X. It's...More Development articles
Posted by wincent at 5:39 PM
December 22, 2006
HOM in Apple frameworks
Was quite surprised today when browsing the articles linked to (via this article) from Scott Stevenson's new Cocoa Blogs site. I've never used NSUndoManager and so I didn't realize that there's actually an example of trampoline-based HOM in an Apple...More HOM articles
Posted by wincent at 3:51 PM
December 19, 2006
MacHeist
My take on the MacHeist debacle: yes all publicity is good publicity but I also think the support cost of selling somewhere in the ballpark of 10,000 to 15,000 licenses in a single week would be staggering. At fifty cents...More Opinion articles
Posted by wincent at 4:14 AM
December 12, 2006
Operator precedence
Operator precedence still surprises me sometimes....More Development articles
Posted by wincent at 12:24 PM
December 5, 2006
"Duh!" moments
Sometimes you are working on a thorny coding problem and find yourself feeling less and less happy with the number of kludgey hacks you're having to implement in order to get things working. Then comes a "duh!" moment in which...More Development articles
Posted by wincent at 4:45 PM
