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Literature and Latte: How Big is Your Code Base?

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Saturday, March 20, 2010. How Big is Your Code Base? These exchanges usually end with me apologising for something.). Contains much less code than Microsoft Word, but it’s much nicer to user for basic documents. On the other hand, a good program that appears very simple to the user may contain a great deal of code that checks for potential errors. Besides, from a programming point of view, there’s nothing better than. Whatever a hard figure is - a die-cast Arnie? But then, in object-oriented programming,...

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Literature and Latte: The iPad and Mac Development

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Monday, February 01, 2010. The iPad and Mac Development. Most of what follows is my thoughts on, and reaction to, the iPad from my perspective as a Mac developer. That is, as a developer rather than as an end-user, and specifically as a developer who has dedicated the past several years to developing an application for the. As someone who works on a writing and organisational program for the Mac, my reaction is, in short: Oh bum. It makes sense to me, and I designed it! But if you’re reading this, you pr...

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Literature and Latte: Why I Hate Sky But Quite Like David

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Thursday, February 04, 2010. Why I Hate Sky But Quite Like David. The sky I am referring to is the corporation owned by devil-incarnate Rupert Murdoch*, by the way, and not the most excellent canopy, the brave overhanging firmament, the majestical roof fretted with Not the actual sky, I mean.). Despite the year being 2010 (2010! Where’s my robot butler? Thanks to the Cornish infrastructure, my broadband connection is capped at 1.5MB per second. Mr Internet tells me it’s capable of 2.5MB (woo! Is and how ...

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Literature and Latte: Coding XML Formats in Cocoa

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Friday, February 05, 2010. Coding XML Formats in Cocoa. For Scrivener 2.0, .scriv files will still be file packages, but I’ve been doing some work on the format of the files. 1) Its use of .plist and .rtfd files means it’s a format that can only be read on the Mac. Although I personally have no plans to switch to or code for other platforms, this would be a significant hurdle for anyone we wanted to work with to port Scrivener to, say, Windows. 1) The .scriv package will no longer contain all files i...

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Literature and Latte: Final Draft 8

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009. At this stage, lest this comes across as an advert for Final Draft, I should say that we are in partnership with Final Draft Inc. (you can see as much on their partners page. I suppose we ought to have one of those, except we’d only have one company to put on there! Anyway, now that Final Draft 8 is out, a few users have asked, do I really need both programs now? Can’t I do it all in Final Draft? Posted by kayembi at 8:58 am. All the best,. All the best,. Hope it ll come out soon!

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Literature and Latte: July 2005

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Sunday, July 10, 2005. If you really want to know about it. It's been about a year since I decided to learn how to program in Cocoa so that I could design and build my own application for writing in. I've been meaning to write down my thoughts on this process and on the reasons I decided to embark on this project for some time, so thought I'd start this 'blog as a place for those, and other, more general, blatherings. There, that's as good a blog introduction as any. Or at least, 't'will do.

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Literature and Latte: July 2006

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Tuesday, July 25, 2006. In this first picture, you can see that the background can be faded so that you can see windows beneath - including the main Scrivener window, which may be useful if you wish to refer to a different document. Here you can see the other visual elements available in full screen. Posted by kayembi at 11:16 pm. Links to this post. Monday, July 24, 2006. Full Screen Ponderings and the Nature of Shareware. Thus, full screen now has an optional HUD that allows you to enter notes and keyw...

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Literature and Latte: October 2007

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Saturday, October 27, 2007. I've been getting a number of concerned e-mails recently from Scrivener users who fear that I may have abandoned development of Scrivener because my last blog post here is rather old and was slagging off Apple, and because there is no mention of Leopard on the Scrivener product page. I would just like to make it very clear that Scrivener is. Oh, and Tiger users, rest assured that Scrivener will continue to work beautifully on both Leopard. Tiger for the foreseeable future.

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Literature and Latte: Apple: friendlier

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Thursday, June 18, 2009. A couple of years ago I got all huffy. About how Apple had withheld the Leopard beta released at WWDC '07 from developers who had paid for access to Leopard betas but could not attend WWDC, only finally releasing it to other Apple Developer Connection Select and Premier members about a month later - meaning a lot of developers who had paid up for early access to Leopard were unnecessarily left a month behind WWDC attendees in getting their apps Leopard-ready. Links to this post:.