Back in January I asked on Twitter: Is there an Xcode trick to easily jump back to the line I was editing after I jump to the top to add a #import? Some suggested that “Go Back” would work, but that never works for me. It always takes me further back. My solution? A TextExpander [...]

In years past I’ve discounted rooSwitch during WWDC. Although I’m not attending this year I decided that shouldn’t matter. So here you go, rooSwitch for $10, this week only. Buy now. The coupon code is WWDC09, but clicking that link should pre-fill that in for you. Enjoy!

May was month #1, so what has happened? rooSwitch 1.5 shipped with some new features as well as new screencasts and a new website. I moved to a shared private office in downtown Boise. I started work on a new desktop app. Things learned: Multi-tasking is evil. There’s plenty of people talking about the evils [...]

I’m 20 days into roobasoft 2.0 and am already adjusting things as needed. The first major adjustment is switching from the co-working space I was using to a shared private office at a different location. There was one major show stopper for the shared space: I wasn’t able to keep an external monitor, power supply, [...]

Last night I released the first update to rooSwitch in over a year (yikes). So, what’s new? Full support for Adobe AIR apps Locked profiles Did you just spend 40 minutes setting up your data *just* how you want it to reproduce a certain condition? Are you releasing a new version and need to test [...]

Short version I’m doing a 6 month experiment where I focus 100% on roobasoft and see if I can support my family on the apps I develop. Longer version I started teaching myself to program in 1994 and it wasn’t long after that that I knew that a) This is what I want to do [...]

Google knows how to do a lot of conversions. It understands queries like ’2 cups in liters’. That’s awesome. One thing it doesn’t do is time zone conversions. I kept asking Google to convert things like ’2pm MDT in CET’ but it never worked. So I created a simple time converting website. WhenIsThat.net doesn’t support [...]

Update, Count It Off is now available in the App Store here. Count It Off is my new web and iPhone app for simple calorie counting and weight tracking. I’ve been trying to not be as large as I am for a few years now. I’ve tried a handful of ways to diet and have [...]

Probably not very exciting to many, but I just finished moving roobasoft.com and 7 other domains from 2 virtual private servers and 1 dedicated server over to 1 EC2 instance. The move was surprisingly painless. Why did I do all this? The main reason was because the one dedicated server was real cheap and scared [...]

Recently, 37 Signals added a journal feature to Backpack. I wrote a little dashboard widget that uses their API and can post your status and create new journal entries. Download BackpackJournal.wdgt To use this, you’ll need your Backpack API Key. To get that, go to ‘my info’ and click the ‘Show your API key’ After [...]