I think this realization came from the book The Power of Less.  He advocates checking your email twice a day.  That’s not quite enough for me, but then again I realized I was sabotaging my productivity with the continuous Inbox checking.

A good compromise I think is to:

1. Turn off all sound notifications

2. Turn off all dock badges

3. Check your email on some other schedule that you control

I use Mail.app and SpamSieve.  So here are screenshots of what your preferences for each should look so that all sound notifications and dock badges are turned off:

Mail.app

SpamSieve

I hope this improves your productivity without shutting off the outside world of email.  It has worked well for me the past few days.

First up is Voices That Matter in Philly, PA on October 16-17.  Early bird pricing runs until September 10th.  Daniel’s got a nice coupon / discount code that’s worth another $100 in savings I think.

I’m probably going to head up there.  Never been to a VTM before but I’ve heard they’re good.  They’re held twice a year I think and I missed the last one in Seattle, which was right after the iPad DC conference we had earlier this year.

Second, I hear that rising up from the ashes of C4 is SecondConf in Chicago, IL from October 22-24.  That is the next week right after VTM.  Not too many details yet, but they are having BlitzTalks (aka Lightning Talks with an awesome Blitz app to drive it.)

Third, there’ll hopefully be at least two if not more Apple Tech Talks.  I went to one in December last year in New York City.  It’d be even better if there was one further south, say in Washington DC, Baltimore or Philadelphia.

There’s three other conferences too, but they’re all in the West and I’m trying to stay closer to home since we had a new addition to the family in the past few months.

Update: There is a Fourth east coast Cocoa conference: Cocoa Camp in Atlanta, GA on September 25th.

Then again the pressure to be perfect really comes from myself.  But lately I’ve been feeling more of a pressure to write down more of my thoughts and that’s overriding that perfectionism.  So here I am again, this time armed with the latest and greatest MarsEdit 3.0.4.

Of course, every good story has some conflict.  Tonight I realized that my blog had been hacked.  It seems like there were some spam links that were hidden in the page. The only things I did notice was that:

1. Sometimes my theme would get reset.  Not a huge deal but annoying.

2. Every once in a while a new WordPress user would register for no reason.

3. MarsEdit couldn’t my recent posts, instead offering up a -32700 error.

Fortunately that last error got me to Daniel Jalkut’s helpful support forum which helped me find the answer: the wordpress.net.in spam injection hack.

So a quick backup, removal of the old site, and installation of WordPress 3.0.1 and this blog is back in business, now spam link-free.  It’s kind of like encountering the Blue Screen Of Death and hitting Control-Alt-Delete.  A Blog Reboot.

Now I remember why I use Apple products.  So is there a more hack-proof blogging engine out there that will preserve old WordPress entries?

Here’s the entire source:
alias dim="git diff | mate"

It should automatically pick the “Diff” language for you, but if not, then just pick it from the chooser at the bottom of the window to get the nice highlighting where deleted lines are in red, added lines are in green and markers are in blue.
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I go to NSCoderNightDC and we have a nice core group of Mac and iPhone Devs who show up every week and eat Strawberry Napoleons. We also code and talk about design. Well 3 of the guys proposed Blitz Talks and got accepted.

Rob hit it out of the park with his Briefs iPhone prototyping tool. Jose actually created a Brief on the way from the airport to the hotel. He was kinda nervous beforehand in the hotel room but he practiced his presentation a few times on me and was really well prepared. His slides were top-notch but I think the idea is what really captivates people. I’m personally a big fan of fake-powered prototypes – prototypes powered by objects that return canned responses, but I’m definitely going to try out Briefs on upcoming iPhone engagements.

Jose did well with his presentation about the different types of contexts that an iPhone user would use different apps in. I’ve seen him give this talk before so it was interesting to see how he pared it down to fit in the much tighter 5 minute time frame.

Mark gave an interesting talk about how to do video right for Mac and iPhone screencasts and demos. I have a lot to learn about this and I’m hoping to work with Mark on a screencast sometime in the near future for Webnote.

There were many other Blitz Talks and I think they really were a nice Change of Pace that I haven’t seen in other conferences. Wolf amped it up even further by providing an animated radar / pie that kept filling up as the talk progressed.

MacRuby was the other big surprise for me. I had been tracking RubyCocoa and had seen the early MacRuby demo at RubyConf 2007. I’m a former Smalltalker and current Rubyist. I do all my automated build processes in Ruby and I’ve also created various non-Rails Ruby server-side components for clients. Plus I did Ruby on Rails for a few years. So I’ve been wanting to make Mac apps with Ruby, except one thing kept holding me back: I don’t want to show everyone my source.

Obfuscation is not a problem with server-side Ruby. The users only see what you expose via the web or other ports. They only see what’s rendered to them or the API that you expose.

Client-side Ruby is another world altogether. Users learn that they can peek inside application packages and if you’re writing Ruby, they can see your source. I’ve asked this question at WWDCs in the past and the answer was usually that its not a big deal and that you should just keep innovating. But we don’t just leave our Objective-C sources lying around, do we?

MacRuby will soon solve that, or I hope it will, with his AOT (Ahead Of Time) compiler. Or as it is known in the C/C++/Objective-C world: a compiler. LOL. So with the AOT, we will be able to write Cocoa apps in Ruby, compile them and run them on Mac. (And maybe iPhone – the jury is still out on that.) Which means that people can’t just look at your Ruby source. Even better, there is the HotCocoa project which provides useful macros / shortcuts for common Cocoa idioms.

Why use Ruby to write Cocoa apps? Ruby can be more concise, there are more libraries to choose from and the testing/mocking frameworks are better. On the other hand, the debugging story is still hazy.

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bzr branch lp:sparkle

I admit it is kind of cool to have such a short name here like “lp:sparkle” due to bzr’s integration with Launchpad, which is sort of like SourceForge or GitHub.

2. Later on, you might need to get the latest version. This is similar to “svn update” or “git pull”.
bzr pull

3. To make sure you have the latest, you can check what version you have. This is similar to “svn info”. The closest to this in git is “git log –max-count=1″
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We will be limiting the number of attendees this year to 50. Ticket registration will start next week around the beginning of July. This is a BarCamp-style conference, where the attendees present the sessions, so if you’re planning to attend, start thinking of what session you could present. We won’t have time for everyone to present, but if everyone comes ready, then we’ll have great topics for everyone to choose from.

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At first it seems like the Apple Engineers are just passing the buck, but really what they’re saying is either:
a. “Yes that seems like a good idea, but I need you to file a bug so I can justify working on this, be it a bug or a new feature, to my manager.” or
b. “I’m not sure about that, but file a bug and if we get enough of those, we’ll work on it.”

BTW here’s how to file a bug in Apple’s Radar bug database.

2. Instruments is as important as Xcode and Interface Builder.
Every Mac and iPhone Developer is familiar with Xcode and Interface Builder. But Instruments is just as important, especially with the relatively limited hardware of the 1st gen/3G iPhone and 1st gen iPod Touch. There were a lot of good sessions that featured Instruments that are worth watching when the session videos come out.

Even on Mac OS X, profiling your application to improve its performance and memory usage is important to do with Instruments.

Another interesting tool to delve into is dtrace. Its the technology that underlies some of the instruments in Instruments.

Also I heard a new phrase “There’s an Instrument for that.” If you have access to the Snow Leopard betas (and you should get it via ADC), then check out the new ones that are available. If you don’t see one that fits your needs, you might consider filing a bug requesting it.

3. WWDC 2010 will hopefully occur in a bigger venue.
WWDC 2009 sold out the fastest as I’ve seen any (and perhaps the fastest ever?) 60% of attendees were new attendees. So there’s still another 3000 or so people who were at WWDC 2008 and previously that might have attended if they had purchased their tickets sooner. Add to that another 2000 or so developers that see the market growing due to the $99 iPhone and you’re over 10,000 developers that could be attending WWDC 2010. That’s roughly double the attendance.

OK I admit that I don’t really like lines and such, but the keynote line ran completely around the block back to the front! Moscone West was just overflowing with Mac and iPhone developers this year. I’m hoping that next year’s WWDC 2010 will be say in Moscone South or Moscone North. It might not be as cozy but it should give some breathing space and allow for more developers (including those who have longer purchasing cycles) to attend. Cialis For Women
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