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Category Archives: metadev
Designing a secure Cocoa application
That’s the title of next month’s CocoaHeads Swindon, and I’ll be leading the presentation/discussion. So if you want to learn a little about how to ensuring your Cocoa app doesn’t give away the keys to the kingdom, or have some … Continue reading →
Social and political requirements gathering
I was originally going to talk about API: Design Matters and Cocoa, but, and I believe the title of this post may give this away, I’m not going to now. That’s made its way into OmniFocus though, so I’ll do … Continue reading →
The Dock should be destroyed, or at least changed a lot
I found an article about features Windows should have but doesn’t, which I originally got to from OSNews’ commentary on the feature list. To quote the original article: The centerpiece of every Mac desktop is a little utility called the … Continue reading →
Yeah, we’ve got one of those
Title linkey (which I discovered via slashdot) goes to an interview in DDJ with Paul Jansen, the creator of the TIOBE Programmer Community Index, which ranks programming languages according to their web presence (i.e. the size of the community interested … Continue reading →
Project: Autonomous Revolutionary Goldfish
I was going to write, am still going to write, about how silly project names get bandied about in the software industry. But in researching this post (sorry blogosphere, I’ve let you down) I found that the Software-generated Gannt chart … Continue reading →
Holding a problem in your head
The linkied article (via Daring Fireball) describes the way that many programmers work – by loading the problem into their head – and techniques designed to manage and support working in such a way. Paul Graham makes the comparison with … Continue reading →
