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SunFlower 0.14 Released

SunFlower 0.14 has been released with one minor bug fix. The major change, however, is the website and build process. Since SunFlower is now free, persuasive copy and graphics are no longer a requirement. So the website was demolished and rebuilt with an extreme minimalist aesthetic. The most tedious thing in the past when creating a new release was updating the website. So the process of packaging a release now includes automatically updating the website. The Change Log The previous change log was maintained as a text file. After each release it was then manually converted into HTML for the release notes page. The change log is now an xml file. The initial idea was to ...
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SunFlower

I recently released SunFlower 0.13 for free. As some people have paid for previous versions I felt it was tactful to explain the change. The process I had developed for doing releases became time cons...

SunFlower 0.13 Released

I am happy to announce the release of SunFlower 0.13. As there are some user interface changes I have decided to post a brief walkthrough of the changes. The Persistence Pane A new persistence pane ha...

Using a Mac Keyboard with a Windows Box

So you’ve got an idle Mac USB keyboard laying around and you’ve connected it to a Windows box. But you’ve got a problem, CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn’t work because the inaptly named de...

Humanizing XML

XML is supposed to be human readable, so it can be quite the hair tearing ordeal when reading it if it is stripped of whitespaces. Those indents were taken out to speed up computer to computer transa...

Which way is up?

In Windows 7 there is an option to change the layout of a regular file explorer window as pictured below. A check mark is used when a feature is active and a helpful graphic is shown if the feature ...

Make Cygwin Play Nice with SunOs

If you’ve ever logged into a SunOs box using a Windows Cygwin terminal you’ve probably gotten the message “Cannot find terminfo entry for ‘cygwin’.“. This can be q...

Fresh Location, Fresh Theme

The Cocoa Mondo blog has moved servers and this post is here to showcase what the blog used to look like. The previous version of this blog used the Kubrick theme with some slight customizations. ...

Zathras.framework

Recently I started using some kode (UKKQueue) that Uli Kusterer published as open source. Instead of just including the source files in my software I decided to wrap it in a framework. One of the adv...

How I use Mail.app

Brent Simmons started an email group discussion about creating a new mail client in Cocoa. You can read the discussion here. So I’ve decided to describe how I use mail. Please forgive the over...

CocoaMondo Kit 1.1

I looked high and low for a switch interface similar to the Time Machine switch. The iPhone uses this style of interface all the time with the UISwitch. Since I couldn’t find an implementation...
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Matthieu Cormier has been creating Macintosh software since MMIII.

In a parallel universe he works on drab enterprise projects, using a plethora of open source, proprietary, and middleware technologies.