Archive for January, 2008

If you have ever wanted to make a mac app, then you will want to know about cocoa. This site gives some excellent tutorials on doing just that. It takes you right to the beginning, showing you how to open and use Xcode. Check it out.

Well, I can’t really decide if it is THE best. But I use it all the time for debugging my sites. I know it has saved me hours of html/css induced pain and agony. You can get it here. Its just this little thing that goes in the bottom of Firefox. If you are ever working on a website, or want to know how someone made their site, get it. It will rock your web-world.

If you want to do screen pics or screen capture video, then check out the Jing Project.

From the Site: “The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere.It’s something we want to give you, along with some online media hosting, to see how you use it. The project will eventually turn into something else.”

p.s. There is a download for both win/mac.

I saw this interesting article the other day and I thought I would share. The article comes from the site sikanrong.com. He writes about how we got PWND. I don’t like to read the windoze/mack arguments, but I read this one. And the reason its actually worth reading is because it is from a programmers point of view. His view: Yes a MacBook is expensive. But it aids a programmer because of the many great features it has. Anyways, check out the article and the long flame war that it started in the comments section.

Think of the way we txt. Its like a computer language in some ways. For one, you wouldn’t speak in txt. The only thing you can do with it is text.

That’s really the same with programming languages. They are understandable to humans and machines, but rarely are they spoken by humans.

I was just thinking. About the first time I ever geeked out. It was on this mac. It was still dad’s computer at that time. I came upstairs and sat down on this new leather chair dad bought. I think he got it so he could sit and be comfortable as he geeked out. Well, one day, he wasn’t using it. So I had it. I opened up an app called Comic Life. It came with the mac, and it lets you make your own comics out of pics and thought bubbles and action noises, etc. Really fun program. But I needed some pics to put in it. So, I opened up the Photo Booth app. I used the built-in camera on the computer to take pics of myself. Once I did that, I put them in to Comic Life.

That was sometime in the summer of 06. Now, I am a bona fide geek. Only a year and a half later, and I probably could have graduated from geek college if i had gone.

It all started with something so simple. And now, I actually think that source code makes for a good read. What happened?