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Building A Bigger Nerd Ranch
When newcomers to programming on the Mac ask me for advice about getting started with Cocoa, I usually boil it down to three steps, depending on the amount of time and money they are prepared to put...
View ArticleInvest In Yourself
I made an offhand quip on the latest Core Intuition podcast, that in light of the recent stock market plunge, I should have invested money into my own company instead of the likes of Yahoo and Apple. I...
View ArticleLet’s Kick Ass In 2009
I’ll keep this short and sweet. I’m grateful to my family for supporting and encouraging me in my life pursuits. In particular, to my wife Chrissa and my infant son Henry. It’s cheesy but true, their...
View ArticleYou Should Be Blogging
Starting a blog changed my life. Before Red Sweater Blog, nobody knew who I was, nobody cared what I was working on, and nobody (relatively speaking) bought any of my products. I’m not saying the blog...
View ArticleWe Aim To Please
Yesterday Favrd, a site that monitored the number of favorite stars a particular Twitter update has received, was suddenly shut down. Twitter erupted with reaction, much of which was more earnest and...
View ArticleOnly A Game
What is it about my job that makes it so damned enjoyable? I was discussing this earlier today with a friend and came to the conclusion, perhaps obvious, that it’s fun because running an indie software...
View ArticleSay Yes
Derek Sivers captures the human side of business and just about everything else on his life-lessony blog. His latest, My Loss, reminds us that even successful entrepreneurs have gone through the...
View ArticleBlog The First Draft
MarsEdit users sometimes sheepishly admit that they aren’t blogging as much as they “should” be. Excuses vary, but it usually boils down to the classic issue afflicting all of us who try to stick to a...
View ArticleYou Can’t Please Everyone
Some of my Twitter friends are buzzing about Alex Payne’s arguments on what constitutes a respectable entrepreneurial pursuit. In case you want to catch up on the pre-reading, it starts with a post by...
View ArticleWindowless Skyscraper
One of the thrills of software development is how much power is placed into the hands, literally, of a single engineer. Software takes work, and lots of it. But thanks to frameworks of reusable code,...
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