Joe Pecoraro hinted me on to a cool little Mac app called Open Terminal Here. It’s been enhanced for Leopard, and you can grab it here. This app, like the last one I talked about a few days ago (GrabUp), is a tiny little program that can speed up your workflow. Open Terminal Here stays [...]
Everything is wrong with TV today. The internet is helping to fix this very problem though. With the ability to transmit films to millions of viewers as easily as YouTube makes it, we can finally find good content. Here’s a good list of 4 hilarious web comedies worth checking out.
We Need Girlfriends
Watch the show. We [...]
Ben Hummel just informed me of this super cool new Mac program. I downloaded it and gave it a shot. In two minutes I was back and simply stunned. GrabUp is not showy or confusing. It’s screen-shotting at its easiest. Once installed as a pref pane, GrabUp sits in your menu-bar and waits. To take [...]
For this Cocoa Code Snippet, I’d like to post a little clarification that caused me some grief a day ago. I was working on a Core Animation enabled view (in a Cocoa Touch project but this post applies to normal Cocoa as well). This view was animating after I set its frame using the following [...]
It’s a real flattery to see Google now rank me as a more “famous” Dustin than The Dustin Hoffman. I really appreciate the Google algo
But in all seriousness, this raises an interesting question. How should Google rank results for people’s names? I’m lucky that a search for “Dustin Bachrach” hits my website first, [...]
The developers over at Webkit have successfully passed the Acid3 test. If you’ve been following the many blog posts over there, you can see the progression towards perfection. It’s quite shocking how quickly they made the bug fixes. They fixed the last 5 bugs in only 4 days. Webkit just demonstrates how quick and powerful [...]
For the past month or so, Erin and I have been doing crossword puzzles daily. We try to do at least 2 a day and complete them in the fastest time possible. We try to compete with my parents, but as of right now, it’s a little one sided (i.e. a puzzle that takes us [...]
During my Comp Sci lecture yesterday, my professor mentioned a convention he follows that he learned over time in his development with Java (this tip applies to almost all languages though). You might be familiar with the usual if statement as seen below:
if(tester == null) {
// something
}
If you’ve programmed for any amount [...]
The philosophy behind my Cocoa Code Snippets has been to post little quick tips on Cocoa routines and methods and such that have caused me to do some thinking/researching/tearing my hair out. This day’s tip came up in my development of the new Todos. With an NSSearchField you might find it difficult to find out [...]
Any Todos fans out there? You might know that Todos 2.0 is in current development and will be hitting alpha pretty soon. With the new version comes a new updated icon. Right now, I am going with a design that is very derivative of the old Todos icon. In terms of the old icon, there [...]
Dustin Bachrach is a 20 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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