CyberFOX Software Inc.

Greetings, Recently I got a casual query from a user who was interested in what else I had going on. I do have a lot of projects that I work on, along with spending time supporting JBidwatcher.  What follows is a lightly edited version of what I told them… (1) Most obviously there is JBidwatcher […]

Greetings, I am not an expert Objective C, Cocoa, or Core Data coder. There, I admitted it. I expect some of the people viewing this will be, and I encourage you to let me know where I’ve gotten things wrong. I’m also sure my MacRuby style is…let’s call it idiosyntactic. Too long to fit in […]

Greetings, What alternative do you suggest for using models in migrations? I was in several situations where I had to not only change the underlying db structure but change the contained data, too. Data changes, especially moving data around, are almost always rake task-worthy in my experience. The other side of that, populating large amounts […]

Greetings, [Edit: Since writing this article up back in early March, I’ve moved on from this job. The folks who are now maintaining it at least know where the pain points are, can run migrations safely, deploy it locally, and to dev servers, and to the main deployment area.  It’s a working app, although I […]

Greetings, Programming should be fun, it’s what gets us programmers into it in the first place, and it’s what keeps us going at it. Too many layers have been heaped on programming these days; most IDEs are oppressive, process-oriented beasts. I, and many other programmers, have been concerned about how the next generation of programmers […]