Monthly Archives: August 2004

More iRooster Updates

I am ready to sign off on iRooster 1.2 Beta 1. I’ve done a lot of work to firm it up, make it as usable as possible, and add cool new features to it. I implemented a feature in an hour last night that allows users to check for updates and see if they’re running [...]

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More AppleScript + Cocoa

Apple recently published an article on making Cocoa apps AppleScriptable. It’s fairly bare-bones, but it’s more information than I had before, so I’m not going to gripe too much. You can find it over at Apple’s Developer website.

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Where’s Waldo for an older crowd

My buddy Matt just sent me this picture. As he put it, it’s like a game of Where’s Waldo. But for an older crowd

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Nasty Bugs

The best way to find nasty, blocking bugs is to “eat your own dogfood.” i.e. use the software you’re developing as you develop it. I do this with iRooster: I wake up every day to it… or not, as this morning proved. I thought I had worked out the last of the particularly nasty bugs [...]

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Because a picture is worth a thousand words

That ain’t iTunes, it’s the best damned alarm clock you’ll ever see!

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Apple Events

One thing I’ve wondered about for the longest time is how Apple Events work. I’ve never really found a really good tutorial on them, and they’ve always mystified me. It feels incredibly fragile to use AppleScript in shipping code, but I’ve always done it because it’s far easier to tell app “iTunes” play playlist “foo” [...]

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More stuff about iRooster

I believe I was just able to get rid of the last truly serious bug in repeating alarms. I’m sure there will be a few I missed, but that’s what a beta test is for!
iRooster 1.2 is coming along quite swimmingly, if I do say so myself. I have implemented repeating alarms, made [...]

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Political Food for Thought

Here’s a terrifically interesting factoid I just read: If one-half of 1 percent of [Florida's] Cuban community had stayed home in 2000—not voted for Gore, but just stayed home—we’d be talking about Gore’s re-election right now.

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More brethorsting.com statistics fun

Here are a few Google searches from my statistics page from yesterday:
“aaron brethorst” - someone actually googled me. I’m touched.
“funniest picture ever” - I still come up amazingly high for this one.
“irooster windows” - There’s definitely a lot of interest in this, and I do aim to please. Eventually.
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Another fun new feature for iRooster

Occasionally, the inspiration for some random little feature will just strike me. Tonight was one of those nights. The next release of iRooster will add a little bit of flair to the default alarm editor’s list of alarms.
Up until now it’s been sort of hard to differentiate between all of the different playlists [...]

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