Archive for November 2007

The Truth About Blogging

In Around The Web on 29 November 2007 with no comments

Spiekerman tells it like it is:

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Nu Hacking with Delicious Library

In Cocoa on 29 November 2007 with no comments

Tim Burks has put up a great screencast showing how he uses Nu to get inside Delicious Library.

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Malcor Fake Apple Hacker

In Around The Web on 29 November 2007 with no comments

Umm, ok, so the malcor apple fan boi hacker was a fake.

And all those sites who said they got hacked didn’t.

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FeedDemon Panic Button

In Around The Web on 23 November 2007 with no comments

I like this idea. The FeedDemon Panic Button clears some subset of your RSS feeds (hey, you weren’t gonna read them anyways….)

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Hacked For Being a ‘Mac Fan Boi’

In Around The Web on 22 November 2007 with 1 comment

Both MacApper and Glen Wolsey have had their sites hacked recently by some ‘Mac fan boi’ hater.

Using a known Wordpress exploit, their .htaccess files were modified to show a variation of this:

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Understanding Web Design

In Design, Typography on 21 November 2007 with no comments

Zeldman nails it with what is one of the best essays yet on what web design is and is not.

Of course, all comparisons are gnarly by nature. What is the “London Calling” of television? Who is the Jane Austen of automotive design? Madame Butterfly is not less beautiful for having no car chase sequence, peanut [...]

Key Presses During mouseDragged Events

In Cocoa on 20 November 2007 with no comments

Alistair has a great piece with some thoughts about what your Mac app should do when the user engages in some pathological testing.

In particular, what does the user expect when he presses Command-X while dragging a selected object inside your custom view? Depending on how you implemented your drag (using one of the two [...]

Preference Lookup Performance Slowdown in Leopard

In Leopard on 19 November 2007 with no comments

Brent Simmons discovers (using Shark) that calls to CFPreferencesGetAppBooleanValue and other preference lookups are wayyyy slower in Leopard than in Tiger. Subscribe to my RSS feed!

Google Has Us Figured Out

In Around The Web on 16 November 2007 with no comments

Google Trends

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Cocoa Fist-a-cuffs

In Cocoa on 7 November 2007 with no comments

Mike Lee: “So it was that I very nearly got into a fistfight over Objective C.” Subscribe to my RSS feed!