Right before we moved in to this apartment, the real estate agent next door claimed one of the rooms. They knocked a hole in the wall and made a new door on their side, and removed the handle from (and, we presumed, boarded up) the door on our side.
Here’s another foolhardy attempt at increasing the number of posts on my blag above the number of plugins. So far, it seems like a battle I really can win! (That this is an issue at all, however, i think says a lot about me.)
So what am I actually writing about today? Mostly, it’s just to clear my confused head about what to do next.
So, “Cocoa Programming For Mac OS X” by Aaron Hillegass arrived in my mailbox today. I’ve read the first three chapters and done the exercises, and so far this book is truly amazing. I really do understand the reason this book has the reputation of being the definitive beginner’s guide to Mac programming.
I have previously tried several tutorials on learning Objective C/Cocoa/XCode/Interface Builder, but never really grasped it the way Aaron already has made me do. The book is incredibly well written, focuses on what’s important, and makes me feel really clever when I manage to make something work. “Cocoa Programming For Mac OS X” is heartily recommended for anyone wanting to learn to program “the Mac way”.
Yep, it’s another rant. This time about drunken idiots at concerts.
Finally, I’ve taken the time to create a new gallery and upload some pictures. Turns out there’s an excellent plugin for exporting pictures from Lightroom to Gallery2, which makes the whole process incredibly fast and easy. So far I’ve added pictures from the wedding, from my and my wife’s various travels, from a couple of concerts, and some other random stuff.
Take a gander at bilder.aurlien.net.
The help windows on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard are not at all very popular. All help windows are always on top, and the Help Viewer application itself has been made into a faceless background application. But thankfully, the help system can be made to work much like it did on Tiger.
Update: After using this solution for a while, I found it to be far from optimal. So I’m just sticking with the plain vanilla Help Viewer.
The acronym means bacon, avocado, chicken and tomato. This sandwich is truly a monster.
OK, time to get this blag-thingy off the ground. And what better way to do it than with a rant?
I love Photoshop. I’ve used it for many years, and with each upgrade I have marveled at its new features. From the context-sensitive options bar in Photoshop 6 to the incredible auto align/blend-commands in CS3, I’ve had something to enjoy with every new release. But but there is one part of the interface that hasn’t changed much since it was introduced in version 3, and it’s really starting to show its age. The layers palette must go.
Just created a proper page for ArneBox, my image zooming script. So, you know, just head over and check it out.
So yeah, this is my blag, or something.
I’ve never really been a blagger. Sure, I’ve read some blags, and I even have thoughts sometimes that I think other people should hear, but I’ve never actually done anything about it. Until now, that is.