Author Archives: luis

Blog Reboot

Posted on August 6, 2010 by luis

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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GitX – a great Mac OS X tool for visualizing your Git history

Posted on March 17, 2010 by luis

I’m a command-line kind of guy. I guess when your CS teachers in high school raised you on a Minicomputer with a dumb terminal and vi, you get used to that kind of thing.So I mostly use the git command … Continue reading →

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dim – visualize your Git diff in TextMate

Posted on October 15, 2009 by luis

I use git as my primary version control system and one nice alias that I have in my ~/.bash_profile is “dim”. When I type in “dim”, I see my Git diff within TextMate which makes it easy to see what … Continue reading →

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C4[3] Blitz Talks and MacRuby

Posted on September 30, 2009 by luis

I just came back from C4[3] – an Independent Mac and iPhone Developer Conference in Chicago. Wolf and Victoria host it and I saw Daniel Jalkut helping out along with a few other folks. In case you’re not hip to … Continue reading →

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Getting Sparkle from source (using bzr as compared with svn and git)

Posted on July 1, 2009 by luis

A few notes about getting Sparkle, the widely used framework for updating Mac OS X apps, from source: 1. Get a branch. This is similar to “svn checkout” or “git clone”. bzr branch lp:sparkle I admit it is kind of … Continue reading →

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iPhoneDevCampDC is coming July 31st – August 1st!

Posted on June 25, 2009 by luis

We are putting together a local gathering of iPhone developers in the Washington DC area. Its called iPhoneDevCampDC and it is a satellite event of the main iPhoneDevCamp (which is in Sunnyvale, CA.) There are satellite events all over the … Continue reading →

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Three things I learned at WWDC 2009

Posted on June 19, 2009 by luis

I went to WWDC 2009 last week and I learned 100 things. Unfortunately, 97 of them are under NDA, so I’ll just share with you three things that aren’t secret. 1. When in doubt, file a bug. Mac OS X … Continue reading →

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Developer Day – Falls Church, VA – this Saturday May 30

Posted on May 28, 2009 by luis

There’s a local Developer Day one-day conference here in Falls Church, VA (which is right outside Washington, D.C.) It is happening two days from now, this Saturday May 30, 2009. The schedule looks pretty cool and it is being sponsored … Continue reading →

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Lessons Learned: Blank page of death after upgrading to WordPress 2.7.1.

Posted on May 21, 2009 by luis

I had the blank page of death problem when logging in to my blog after upgrading to 2.7.1. What this means is that after I logged in, I would just get a blank white page with no page source. To … Continue reading →

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How to use TouchJSON in your iPhone Apps

Posted on April 25, 2009 by luis

I gave a presentation at NSCoderNightDC a week ago on “How to use TouchJSON in your iPhone Apps.” It was great fun and we had a little iChat Screen Sharing session going on with Rob aka @capttaco so that everyone … Continue reading →

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