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My WAMALUG LEGO Display at The LEGO Store Potomac Mills

When I’m not making apps, one of the things that I enjoy doing is making things out of LEGO.  When I was younger, I played with LEGO.  Recently, I decided my kids should start building with LEGO too since I … Continue reading

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My Tribute to Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs inspired me to make apps for the Mac, quit my job and start my own business.  He created the mobile apps industry where I now mostly make my living.  Apple under Steve Jobs set the gold standard for … Continue reading

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What would you take in an earthquake?

I was at a co-working space in Herndon, getting ready to type and I noticed the external 20″ monitor that I was connected to was rocking a bit.  I steadied it with my hand and casually asked my office mates: … Continue reading

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What I wish I knew when I first attended WWDC

I’ve been attending WWDC since 2005.  This year will be my seventh WWDC in a row.  Woohoo! So I was thinking that if I was able to go back in time in a flux capacitor-powered DeLorean to June 5, 2005 … Continue reading

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What to put in your gitignore

A question that comes up frequently is what to put in your .gitignore files.  I recently stumbled across a nice GitHub project which has .gitignore templates for every language it seems. Here’s a few which are useful in my daily … Continue reading

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Fixing SASL For Colloquy When You Are Using A MiFi

I got a MiFi the other day.  It has performed great so far, with the exception of IRC.  Why use IRC you say?  Well, here in the DC area, we have an active Mac, iPhone and iPad programmer group called … Continue reading

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Fully Baking this Blog

Brent makes a plea for “fully baking your blog.” Another way to put it in the Mac community is to make sure your website can stand up to being “Fireballed” (verb) – when John Gruber links to your post and … Continue reading

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Pavlov’s Inbox

I realized this week that I’m like Pavlov’s dog.  The New Mail bell rings, I see the number of unread messages in the Mail.app dock icon and I compulsively check my mail.  I’m not sure, but I might have gotten … Continue reading

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East Coast Cocoa Conferences

I’ve been thinking about upcoming Cocoa (Mac and iPhone) conferences for the past week, ever since the last NSCoderNightDC.  Daniel posted his big uber list of Fall Conferences, so I won’t repeat that.  Instead, I’ll focus on East Coast Cocoa … Continue reading

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Blog Reboot

Twitter – that’s one word for where a lot of my writing energy has gone.  It’s such an easy way to get out a few words and there’s no pressure to be perfect. Then again the pressure to be perfect … Continue reading

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