February 2011
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January 2011
12 posts
“Assange is an arrogant computer genius who began Wikileaks with the best of...”
– Paul Carr
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Van de Graaf Generator →
If you’re a graphic designer, you’re probably familiar with canons of page construction. In book design, canons of page construction help you use aesthetically pleasing and balanced text block and margins. It has been used by many typographers throughout the ages, starting with the Gutenberg bible.
Constructing them, though, is somewhat of a pain. You have to go through a long series...
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On Saturday, I attended the Compostmodern conference on sustainable design. Sustainability is a fancy buzzword used by big corporations so that they can feel socially responsible. File it away with previous contenders such as Synergy and Trickle-down, and don’t ever use it. But beyond the ill-advised terminology lies an really important concept; which is that as we design, we have...
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“The most stealth cracking countermeasure I ever witnessed was an application...”
– “snorkel,” on the comment thread for my cracking article.
“Discard the nerd extremes: the curmudgeonly pocket protector set is retiring or...”
– Michael Lopp
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I Can Crack Your App With Just A Shell (And How To...
Well, not you specifically, but by you I mean the average Mac developer. It’s too easy to crack Mac apps. Way too easy. By walking through how I can hack your app with only one Terminal shell, I hope to shed some light on how this is most commonly done, and hopefully convince you to protect yourself against me. I’ll be ending this article with some tips to prevent this kind of hack.
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The Ultimate Solution For Xcode Auto-Versioning...
After struggling with several suboptimal solutions for years, I have finally come to find the best Xcode versioning solution for git users. First off, tip of the hat to Marcus Zarra and Johannes Gilger for posting their solutions, which inspired me in my search for the ultimate solution.
A couple advantages that make this solution better than those I’ve used in the past:
It’s...
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My Mac App Store Plans
The recently unveiled Mac App Store is, unfortunately, an affront to Mac developers. Importing the iOS’ closed model and applying it to the Mac, the new store carries with it all of the major disadvantages of its smartphone equivalent. I can’t stand the thought of losing thirty percent of my revenue, in return for which I get harsh restrictions on what I may do, week-long approval...
