Archive for June, 2006

rooSwitch isms

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Over on the rooSwitch blog I talk about supported applications, request help to expand the list of supported applications and explain some of how the rooSwitch trial period will work. I’m in the final stages of rooSwitch 1.0 and am pretty excited. I’m currently fixing some last minute bugs and waiting for Kagi to wire things […]

rooSwitch beta 4 Available

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

rooSwitch beta 4 is available for download @ http://roobasoft.com/rooSwitch. Changes are listed on the rooSwitch blog. I hope this to be the last beta before I release 1.0. If you have any issues let me know via feedback@roobasoft.com.

WebnoteHappy hits 1.1

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Early this morning, Luis de la Rosa, released 1.1 of WebnoteHappy. The release notes have the details on what’s new. My two favorites? 2. Support for saving bookmarks privately to del.icio.us. 3. Sharing and saving privately can be done from the quick Add/Edit dialog triggered by the hot […]

Announcing rooSwitch Public Beta

Monday, June 19th, 2006

I’ve previously hinted at working on a second application. Today I open the application up to the public. rooSwitch beta 3 is available at http://roobasoft.com/rooSwitch What is rooSwitch? rooSwitch exists to make it easy for you to manage different copies of almost any applications data. You then switch amongst the profiles to activate the data you wish […]

Time Out Your Beta App X Days From When it was Built

Friday, June 9th, 2006

I’m working on an application that will be going into a private beta pretty soon, followed by a public beta. One of the things I wanted to do was make sure the application stopped working after 30 days from when it was built. This is to make sure the beta testers are running the latest […]

Mistakes I Made Using Bindings Without Core Data

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

Key-Value Coding is part of the magic behind Cocoa’s bindings. Up until yesterday I had only been binding to an ObjectController or to an ArrayController backed by Core Data. This is very powerful, but bindings pre-date Core Data so clearly not a necessity. So yesterday I went to bind an NSProgressIndicator’s ‘isIndeteriminate’ to a BOOL. […]

Cut and Paste Long Posts Into Tofu For Easier Reading

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Just last night Luis pointed me at “The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn” by Paul Graham. It’s a healthy sized read. Fortunately, TUAW had recently clued me in to a free app called Tofu. Tofu’s site explains itself this way: In Tofu, text is arranged in columns, and each column is only as high as […]


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