Crooked Spin

Archive for May, 2005

General

May 31, 2005

Congratulations Dale!!!

Congratulations go out to Dale and Kathleen on their engagement. Dale finally popped the question and Kathleen accepted. From Dale’s description, it sounds like he had a pretty good set-up and execution:
I was able to pull Kathleen away from work Wednesday when a good friend of ours called and invited us to her [...]

Computers

May 21, 2005

Computer History

A cool site I came across today is MLAgazine.  It’s supposed to be a history of personal computers and the people who made them, but most of the content is Mac/Apple based.  Lots of cool things to look back on like the Pippen and other forgotten Apples.

General, Programming

May 20, 2005

Quartz Effects

Sam Kass has a really cool page of quartz composer compositions and plugins that he’s made. I’m definitely going to be spending a bunch of time playing with everything there.
Thanks go out to Bill Bumgarner for pointing the site out. Although I should be cursing him for getting “Take on me” [...]

Programming

May 8, 2005

Spotlight on ADC Library

For some reason Apple hardwired Spotlight to ignore /Developer/ADC Reference Library/.  Why they don’t want developers to find documentation is beyond me.  Guess they don’t want us to write cool new software. 
Fortunately, there’s a fairly painless way to get it working.  Here’s how thanks to Charles Srstka on the Cocoa Dev mailing list:

Books, Programming

May 7, 2005

Xcode 2 Book

I also picked up today The Mac Xcode 2 Book from Amazon. I hadn’t heard of it before but it looked like it might contain some useful info. I’ll give a review of it once it comes in. The release date is May 23rd, so it won’t be for a few weeks.