Scott Stevenson put together a special CocoaHeads (that’s when a group of developers get together to talk about programming a Mac) at the Apple Store Downtown San Francisco. That Apple store is conveniently located a block away from where WWDC is being held (The Moscone Center) and also happens to be the same block […]
I’ve been secretly working on WebnoteHappy the past month after a development hiatus. I had to take a break there while Baby Cesar was young (he’s gotten really big now for an almost 6 month old) and while my indie business got off the ground. I feel very blessed to have the Ruby […]
Have you ever seen that Geico commercial? The one with the movie announcer guy where he goes “Payback, this time it’s for real.”
That’s sort of how I feel about going Indie (which I wrote up a bit on my other blog.) That’s correct - you heard right, I went Indie! So now […]
Matt Gemmell wrote in Losing Direction:
One of my dreams is of course to do the shareware thing; start a little software company and get some well-focused, beautiful little apps out there, targeting niche markets and filling those needs as perfectly as I can engineer them to.
That’s exactly my dream with Happy Apps and WebnoteHappy, my […]
One of the problems of developing a non document-oriented app (like TextEdit or VoodooPad) is that it can be hard to test. You can’t just start with fresh new documents with File | New Document. A lot of times you want to test out new features like Import into a fresh environment so […]
About two years ago, my family and I put up a bird feeder so we could watch birds in our backyard. At first we had no birds. Zip. Nada. We hoped and prayed and did a little marketing by putting seeds all around it on the ground with aluminum foil. […]
I booked my WWDC 2006 travel plans this weekend. I’m flying my favorite airline JetBlue which is cheap, has in-flight personal satellite TV, and flies direct from Dulles (which is about 30 minutes west of me) to Oakland (which is about 30 minutes outside of San Francisco.) I’m going to have a roommate […]
I finished the website for WebnoteHappy, my newly released bookmark manager for Mac OS X with integrated note taking and tagging, early Wednesday morning at around 2AM. Then I told some of my friends who were online via IRC and IM. At this point I had gotten about 17 hours of sleep in […]
The Apple Design Awards for 2006 are open for Mac Developers to submit their shipping apps. This is another good motivator for us who are developing Mac apps but are a bit perfectionist to actually release our apps. Beta apps and non-shipping apps are not eligible. A new requirement this year is […]
Today I opened up my full-text RSS feed of Daring Fireball. I found out that John Gruber has quit his day job at Joyent and is now living “The Life”. (A term he invented and popularized which is now nicely fitting.)
I love reading his stuff and I’m eagerly awaiting my DF t-shirt (the […]