Archive for month: July, 2008

I bet Steve Jobs completely lost it this week!

12 July, 2008 (11:32) | Apple, Technology, iPhone, mobileMe | By: Niels Hansen

Wow! What a horrible week for Apple (at least Weds thru Friday).  I have honestly never seen Apple blow it so bad on a week that could have been another brightest moment to add to the trophy case.  Instead they hired Murphy to run the launch of MobileMe and the new iPhone/2.0 software launch.   
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How to Change the text Color of a NSButton in Objective-C

10 July, 2008 (23:44) | Apple, Objective-C, internet explorer, xCode, xna, youtube | By: Niels Hansen

One of the things that I need to do is simply change the text of a NSButton (or NSButtonCell) to a different color.  No problem I thought. I can easily do this in any language since I started developing Windows 3.1 Applications.
Boy was I wrong. There is no simple way to do it.   
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Apple blows it on getting MobileMe up and running on Launch Day!

10 July, 2008 (22:58) | Apple, Humor, iPhone | By: Niels Hansen

Wow!  I think this is the first post that I’ve ever done where I’m nailing Apple like their Microsoft.
mobileMe was supposed to be up and running now but it has had problems all day and its now officially down again.  I guess Apple was not ready for the amount of traffic or maybe they realized [...]

The audacity of some Windows Developers

8 July, 2008 (16:25) | .net, Apple, Software Development, open source, subversion | By: Niels Hansen

I’ve been reading an excellent blog called Cocoa is my Girlfriend and there is a post about The audacity of [some] Windows Developers.  I have to agree with him.  Windows developers can be a little bit stubborn about their ways.
I fell into the same camp when I started doing some development on the mac. I could not [...]