mortals wear shoes
The 7th Ironcoder contest was announced today (for some definition of today - damn those pesky time zones). I think this year I actually feel confident enough to take part, even if I accomplish not very much For those who have no idea what it is, each contest selects a theme and [...]
Here’s a quick preview of the product I’m currently working on. It’s called Rickshaw and it’s designed for people who like the convenience of sending (large) attachments via e-mail. Using Rickshaw your attachments are stripped from the mail as it is sent and uploaded to your designated server. The attachment is replaced [...]
1 - The coffee tastes like shit so I’m never tempted to order one
If I forget myself and accidentally order one I certainly never order a second (I usually drink hot chocolate in Starbucks).
2 - You have to pay for wi-fi so I’m never distracted by IM/IRC/RSS
In the UK, all the wi-fi at Starbucks is [...]
There’s been a lot of traffic on the MacSB mailing list and on various blogs (e.g. Panic and Atomicbird) about how Apple is handling the release of Leopard in the same way as they did with Tiger, and about how indie developers get the short end of the stick because we don’t see Leopard until [...]
If you happen to be using Xcode and get this somewhat baffling error message when building:
syntax error before ‘AT_NAME’ token
The problem is that you are missing an @end in some file that you’ve #imported, probably a header file. This error also shows up as “parse error …” in some versions of Xcode (took me [...]
Like anyone who has had the same e-mail address for 10 years, I get a lot of spam. Most of it gets filtered, by one mechanism or another. Occasionally the odd bit gets through. Unlike most people, I like to do something about it. For example, when I see Adobe CS3 for [...]
I’ve started working on some projects with a bunch of guys who are not used to using version control systems. This post is as much for them as it is for anyone else. I won’t go into how to install subversion, because that is covered by many other people elsewhere. I also [...]