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Debugging Assembler on Mac OS X The thing a programmer probably does most is, unsurprisingly, debugging. Not that programmers necessarily love debugging, but if you don't have a high pain tolerance for debugging, you probably don't want to pursue a career in programming. On the other hand, if you like the challenge of the bug hunt, you should try getting into this biz. Or into exterminating. Whatever makes you happy, man. (...) Read More... 2010-02-07 @600

The iPad There's been so much tablet here and tablet there that I don't really want to do much writing on this. Kevin Hoctor has summarized it well with his The Computer for the Rest of Them and Steven Frank has analyzed the developer's perspective perfectly already. (...) Read More... 2010-01-29 @417

Double click is a shortcut John Gruber mentioned in passing that people are confused about when to double-click and when not to. It's true, but that doesn't just apply to users. I've seen many application developers not knowing (or simply not caring) about when to use a double-click, and when not to. (...) Read More... 2010-01-16 @621

Removing transparency from NSImage I played around with a little test project using layer-backed NSImageViews for its graphical display. The hit-testing bit me just when I ran out of time, but a nice little NSImage category came out of this. (...) Read More... 2010-01-16 @581

Garbage collection, work of the devil? I wrote before about how I learned programming the Mac using a scripting language, using its native API call plug-in scheme and how that made me realize that using scripting languages and their bridges to other languages or the native APIs (or even AppKit) is a great way for people to learn programming at their own pace. (...) Read More... 2009-12-20 @881