Monthly Archives: January 2008
Sound Picker Example Code
after-action report for the Sound Picker sample code
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Sound Picker Design
I was working on a project and needed to allow the user to pick a sound to play when an event occurs. Even though OS X has great sound support it lacks a common GUI element for allowing users to pick a sound to play. Each program implements this in a different way, and most [...]
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On Transparency
From an article in the 1/21/08 issue of Fortune, talking about the Fed. “They ought to go back to the days when it was more of a delphic oracle. The problem with transparency is that people see through it“
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Hi resolution Newton
Another one day project from long ago, this was the basis for a newton skin I made as a joke for when I was using POSE to develop Palm software.
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Equality vs Identity
A common tripup for programmers moving from other languages to Objective-C is dealing with the difference between equality and identity. This can be especially problematic because the rules for identity and equality are different depending on whether you are dealing with primitives or objects, and because FoundationKit can pull some tricks behind the scenes that [...]
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