Released!

Friday, June 6, 2008

It’s hard to believe, but It’s been well over three years since I took Aaron Hillegass’s Cocoa Bootcamp. You’d think I’d have more to show for it. Of course, I haven’t been doing just Cocoa programing since then. I’ve still been doing a lot of 4D development to pay the bills. But I have picked up a few Cocoa programming gigs too, which have been a lot of fun.
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The Registration User Interface

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Now that I know what I want my registration numbers to look like, I want to design the application’s user interface for the registration process.
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Generating Unique Registration Numbers

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

So before I can write any user registration routines, I need to figure out a way to generate a unique registration number for each user.
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My Product Registration Solution

Monday, March 10, 2008

As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve decided to roll my own product registration routines. I’m comfortable with this decision because my ultimate goal is to give Mac users that pay for software a reason to send me money. It’s not to prevent software pirates from using my product. I don’t think that’s a realistic goal.
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Still Thinking About Product Registration

Friday, February 15, 2008

I mentioned previously that I was trying to decide how to handle registration for my new shareware application.
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The Leopard Dilemma

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

I finally installed the Leopard Developer Preview I picked up at WWDC. It’s on an external drive—I didn’t replace my primary Tiger OS. I’m not that much of a thrill-seeker.
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iPhone Envy

Monday, August 13, 2007

There were lots of iPhones at C4 this past weekend. I’d guess that 70% of the developers attending the conference brought an iPhone. Not me.
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C4 - Day 3

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Today was the last day of the C4 conference. After an 11 AM breakfast, Cable Sasser of Panic talked about everything from the early days of the company to the design of Coda, their latest award winning software release.
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C4 - Day 2

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Today was day two of the C4 conference. I really like the format of this conference. Unlike most conferences I go to with multiple tracks, we’ve got just one track here, so I don’t always wonder if I’m missing something in the next room.
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C4 - Day 1

Friday, August 10, 2007

Today I caught a bus, took a plane, then a train, then grabbed a taxi to get to the C4 conference in Chicago, Illinois. This conference, hosted by Jonathan “Wolf” Rentzsch of Red Shed Software, is for independent developers like myself that are interesteded in trying to make a living by writing and selling Macintosh software.
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