Recently, my team had to shift focus in development slightly. Our changes required us to go back to the latest QA verified build in our source control repository (in our case Subversion). We started working off of this version to ensure that any new stuff was branching off from a verified source. There are some [...]
If you’re planning a trip to Hawaii, specifically O’ahu, then it can be a tough task to find which places to go (there are so many) and how to keep it affordable (most of those places cost a ton). But with some patience, and planning you can have a sweet trip to one of the [...]
After a great experience, I’m proud to release my new application, Mashduo. This was really a terrific experience. I had this idea for an app to take me and my friends iTunes library, do some fancy magic, and then tell each of us what songs the other person has that we don’t. I thought it would be [...]
If you haven’t heard of Universally Unique Identifiers or (UUIDs), they are a way to make a unique identifier for anything (possibly your database entries) from different locations without having to use a central server to create unique identifiers. As an example, you might want to create a unique identifier of your user inside your [...]
I transitioned from Powweb to MediaTemple over the last few days. I moved to MediaTemple mainly for a more reliable server, more professional hosting, better speeds, and to handle many domains in a better manner (plus the awesome control panel helped convinced me). I had really enjoyed my stay with Powweb, but it was just [...]
Just moved my servers over to MediaTemple. Just confirming this is all working.
There are a few ways to send email from a Cocoa app. A few frameworks let you directly send an email without the user ever having to do anything. In my development, I wanted to open Mail with a pre-constructed message and let the user edit the email in Mail before sending it. I had [...]
At iLovePhotos, we’ve been working with our Mac desktop application for a long time. Internally, we use Subversion as our version control system. One of version control’s best features is merging. If I am working on a file, and over in Hawaii, Chad is also working on that same file, I can make my changes, [...]
With today’s announcement comes many interesting apple-related issues. I don’t want to talk about one of them just yet, but if you want an idea just look at the new iPhoto and our iLovePhotos. My main issue to talk about, though, is the outrageous pricing rip off that is this “generous” iTunes Plus upgrade from [...]
As the tech-craze is hitting mainstream media outlets, these old folks are finally “getting it” and actually coming out with some pretty sweet stuff. As the United States presidential election occurs today, you can head over to CNN’s Election Calculator and place your bets on which way each state will go. This makes for a [...]
Dustin Bachrach is a 19 year old Rice student and developer for both OS X and the web. He also deals a lot with design work and Photoshop. He blogs technology, Apple, programming, and life.
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