Aaron Brethorst (Page 183)

Aug 26, 2004
iRooster

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 l...

Aug 24, 2004
iRooster

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 implem...

Aug 24, 2004
Mac OS X

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 ...

Aug 17, 2004
Zoon Politikon

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.