A little overshadowed in the developer community by WWDC and all the inevitable ramblings that take place after, the famous Sparkle framework for automatically updating applications has seen an impressive update. Still in beta, v1.5 introduces several new features including: Support for .pkg files Support for receiving demographic information from users Can update bundles, not [...]
Web 2.0 has a distinct look and feel. Part of that is a set of gradients and reflections. I’ve been doing reflections in Photoshop for quite awhile now, but I’m always looking for an easier way to accomplish that. I just ran across a site that has the most elegant way to create reflections. It’s [...]
For all the Knoxvillians out there, Pride is returning to East Tennessee this week. There are events each evening this week, leading up to the day long celebration of the LGBT community on Saturday, June 21st, from 3-10 in Market Square. And of course, there will be an after party at Rainbow West. I will [...]
For those who don’t know, WebKit is the open-source version of Apple’s own Safari. Granted, Apple does tack on plenty of useful features that you can’t get in WebKit, but the main performance improvements happen here. There was buzz during WWDC ’08 about Safari 4′s 1.61x Javascript performance improvement over Safari 3.1. Even more, it [...]
The lack of HUD controls from Apple in Leopard is a hot topic. The HUD style has picked up quite a following over the last few years, and without an official release of the controls from Apple, developers have been left to their own devices to replicate that style. The community has been hard at [...]
For one, the SproutCore website is now back online after being Dugg a couple days ago. And not only that, there is a very good introduction to models, records (including saving and retrieving) and a brief introduction to the local database, called the Store. If you’re interested in developing more full-featured, Desktop like apps for [...]
The 17 year old YouTube star, responsible for such amazing songs as ‘My Whole Family (Thinks I’m Gay)’ and ‘Klan KooKout’ is releasing his songs on the iTunes store today. If you haven’t ever heard of Bo, then you must take 5 minutes of your life to browse through his songs now. A comedic genius [...]
Roughly Drafted Magazine has another pristine article examining just why Snow Leopard is a major release of OS X. The analysis is exceptional, with Daniel making such observations as Throughout the development of Mac OS X, Apple has reexamined the old ways of doing things in UNIX and proposed new architectures. One example is launchd, [...]
I recently took a quick look at an unreleased web development framework called Cappuccino, which makes use of the newly developed Objective-J language used to deploy the Keynote-like web application 280Slides. Seems there is another very powerful Cocoa-like framework already available, and one that Apple has shown great interest in. SproutCore adds a MVC (model-view-controller) [...]
I just ran across this site earlier today thanks to a quick link on Twitter. It’s actually a very cool idea. Basically, the creator, Matt James, was listening in on a MacSB (Mac Software Business) and realized just many of the great software titles that he uses are developed by just two people: an insanely [...]