Lately I finished reading David Allen’s book on “getting things done”. I cannot say I am big fan of the style of the book – but he is getting the message
across. If you have no clue about GTD probably well worth a read. At least it got me thinking a bit more about how I get things done currently.
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This year was the first time I’ve attended WWDC …and the last time I flew US Airways. After a terrible flight
to San Francisco with a 4 hour delay in Philadelphia I arrived very early the Sunday morning. As every reasonable priced hotel was booked out Marcus
and I shared a private room at the HI hostel near Union Square. Just a few blocks from the conference venue. For sure not the best hostel
I’ve stayed in, but OK for the few hours we spent there every night.
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This is a big thanks going out to those that donated some money for some of my projects. Hasn’t been many people (so far) …and the total really isn’t much. But it’s great to see people actually show their appreciation. I can’t imagine such a model will ever pay the bills – even for bigger projects. But hell – it’s encouraging! (Thought I’d never see a dime) Thanks, guys!
With 10.5 Apple deprecated the use of NSMailDelivery – without a replacement. So the questions comes up regulary – how does one send emails from Cocoa? Turns out there are couple of frameworks available that can also be used to do the job.
EdMessage has been around for ages. Checkout the example on how to
use the API. MailCore is also really easy to use. But both lack support for asynchronous mail delivery. With MailCore I
couldn’t even work out how to send attachments. Also no idea if it’s getting developed anymore. So if you are OK to use a LGPL library Pantomime seemsseemed like a good choice. Sending simple emails is quite straight
forward.
A new release for FeedbackReporter is available. Most importantly it fixes a critical bug on PPC. But it also comes with a lot of improvements. Check the release notes for more details. And stay tuned for more changes with the appcast.
Surely the most noteworthy new feature is the catching of uncaught exceptions. Just edit your Info.plist file.
<key>Principal class</key> <string>FRExceptionReportingApplication</string>
Whenever there is an exception that bubbles up, FeedbackReporter will appear. On 10.5 it will even show the full stacktrace. Thanks go out to Jens for the initial code of that feature.