Wednesday, November 5, 2003

Incredibly Obvious Software Development Secrets

Gus Mueller (of VoodooPad fame) wrote up a presentation by Steve Kalkwarf (of Bare Bones Software) given at the recent OS X conference. [Ranchero]

Important tips every software developer should read.




Shareware

Brent Simmons on the shareware and modern times.

But... there clearly is something different about small developers. Something to do with weblogs and chat and talking and listening and sharing code and ideas. A community thing.
[inessential.com]




Aaron Hillegass revisits NSController

Aaron Hillegass revisits NSController[inessential.com]

More about NSController (from Scott Anguish via Brent Simmons), and earlier posts by Aaron Hillegass - it sounds like a Really Useful Thing. Anything that saves me from having to write, debug, maintain, and keep code is a great idea to me.




10.3: A script to copy iChat buddy icons to Address Book

Your iChat buddies can set up their own picture icons in iChat, but unfortunately these icons do not appear in your Address Book. To solve this problem, I wrote an Applescript that copies the buddy pictures in iChat into Address Book [Mac OS X Hints]

Haven't tried it out, but it sure would beat the Pain In The Rear you had to go through to move them earlier...




Using OmniOutliner for User Stories

Chris Hanson talks about using OmniOutliner for User Stories

[Chris Hanson]

I used Omni Outliner for a few quarters, using it to write papers, then exporting the text and reformatting it in AppleWorks. I only used the basic outliner features, but I saw the other features.