http://corporationunknown.com/blog Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:22:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I don't intend for this to become a link blog--not because of some high-falutin' ideals, but because I assume most potential readers are at least as connected into the Mac dev community as I am and will have already heard the latest cool news. But the latest post by Glen Aspeslagh ... http://corporationunknown.com/blog/2008/10/27/cocotron/ Hooray, Apple has decided to lift the long-in-the-tooth NDA on the iPhone SDK! I can't imagine anyone will be hearing that news from this blog first, but I do want to acknowledge and take advantage of it. My last post felt a bit vague, even to me, about my definition of ... http://corporationunknown.com/blog/2008/10/01/iphone-sdk-nda-lifted/ Yesterday I tweeted: "Sorry, but I still feel black iPhone UIs are the equivalent of brushed metal." I was aware that people I know personally are writing applications that this would seem to disparage. I also knew that I should follow it up with more explanation than can fit in ... http://corporationunknown.com/blog/2008/09/28/iphone-black-brushed-metal/ I'm not usually one for New Year's Resolutions, but this year I set three goals--one personal and two professional. Goal #1 (The Personal One): Return to our honeymoon place for our anniversary. For the first 5 years of our marriage, we did an anniversary trip to Sooke Harbour House, the same ... http://corporationunknown.com/blog/2008/09/13/25-of-3-goals-accomplished/ The prizes for Iron Coder at C4[2] have been announced: A MacBook Air loaded with more than $5,800 (MSRP) of software for first place and "just" the software for second! Gah! Now I really wish I'd been able to go so I could...watch the award ceremony. That's just software created by ... http://corporationunknown.com/blog/2008/09/04/c42-iron-coder-prizes/ First WWDC sold out, but I got in on the last day of early registration. Now, C4[2] opened registration and sold out while I was off on a weekend getaway. I hadn't attended the previous two years, but was hoping to make it happen this year. There's not much I can ... http://corporationunknown.com/blog/2008/08/03/year-of-the-sell-out/ This is one of those cool little tidbits I learned during a WWDC session and can share now that Xcode 3.1 is out: Xcode 3.1 has changed the way you should add Apple-supplied frameworks. Although Apple claims in the Release Notes (you have read them, haven't you?) that the process ... http://corporationunknown.com/blog/2008/07/29/adding-frameworks-in-xcode-31/ When last we joined our intrepid WWDC newbie, he had just entered Grand Keynote Cavern. Come along for the action-packed continuation (and conclusion, I promise!) of The Tale of WWDC. The Keynote (Continued) Watching the Keynote from the back half of the hall is about the same as watching from home, only ... http://corporationunknown.com/blog/2008/07/03/wwdc-recap-part-two/ I haven't been waiting around to have the last word on WWDC; I've been busy and distracted, but I suppose it's time to sum up my experiences. This was my first time attending WWDC. I've wanted to for a long, long time but could never justify the expense for something that ... http://corporationunknown.com/blog/2008/06/20/wwdc-recap-part-one/ I'm certainly not planning to keep people updated on every CSS selector change on the site (there will be a lot), but I have to mark the occasion of changing from the boring stock WordPress "Kubrick" theme to the first revision of Corporation Unknown's graphic identity. Most significant is the new ... http://corporationunknown.com/blog/2008/06/06/begone-kubrick/