Somewhere there exists a list of words you shouldn’t assign as attributes within Core Data. I don’t know where that list is, and today I got bit by not knowing. I tried to use the word “deleted” as an attribute. No matter how hard I tried to set the “deleted” value and regardless of what [...]

I previously mentioned that I store all my receipts on my iDisk with a naming style of: yyyy_mm_dd_NAME_OF_FILE.pdf To get the PDF on to the iDisk I had to say, Print, then “Save as PDF…” and I would manually give it the name with the date prefixed and fumble my way over to iDisk/Documents. This [...]

I’m addicted to Gus‘ Menu Accelerator. I no longer fumble through menu’s looking for what I want. I just start typing. It’s beautiful. The only problem was that it wasn’t a Universal Binary. I’m not sure if Input Managers work through rosetta or not, but even if they did, I wanted a native version. Gus [...]

I’m spending some time working on a new project (sorry, not quite ready to explain what it is) and have spent the time to write some unit tests[1]. The tests run in a script and one problem I had was that there seemed to be no way to debug the tests if things went wrong. [...]

My family (immediate family + both my mother and my mother in-law) was eating dinner in the Burlington Mall last night in Burlington, MA. Near the end of the meal, our seven month old daughter was getting cranky and needed to be walked. Knowing Apple recently blessed this mall with it’s presence I jumped at [...]

When did TUAW become TUBCW (The Unofficial Boot Camp Weblog)? Just look at all the posts they’ve made. Yeah, it’s cool and all, but yowza. After Boot Camp was announced and up until now (18 hours-ish?) I count two, non boot camp related posts. Well, really one, but I consider announcing the firmware update non [...]

My iMac sits in my bedroom. There are certain rules: 1) always mute it 2) don’t use the CD-ROM (it’s quieter than my PowerBook, but still annoying) 3) don’t update it’s firmware (this one is new – learned minutes ago) I just snagged the firmware update and did the install. If your Intel based Mac [...]

I just spent ~1 hour tracking down a crash. The problem was that my object wasn’t unregistering its notification observer on dealloc. Why did this take so long to figure out? Well, it didn’t help that the backtrace in the core was useless[1]. The only hint I had that it was a dead object causing [...]