Archive for the 'Cocoa' Category



MailCore Framework

Today I uploaded an alpha version of a framework I am building known as MailCore. It’s very alpha, so be careful. I am putting it up because, well…release early and release often No really, my hope is that other developers can take a look and give me feedback. The framework in it’s current form is […]

Endo

The toolbar alone makes this app unusable. Everytime you click on something the toolbar totally rearranges itself, talk about confusing! Not only that, it makes it really difficult to “hardwire” the toolbar locations into your brain.

#macsb iron coder contest. looks very cool. Too bad school is taking up so much of my time.

Subtle Errors and CoreData

Ideally in Kiwi, everything would be pulled from the server during launch, but this limits Spotlight integration and it makes offline reading of e-mail impossible. I originally toyed around with storing e-mail in the MH mail format because it’s an open format and every message has it’s own file. Persistence is never easy, especially when […]

Kiwi is coming along quite nicely now. Much of my progress is thanks to Cocoa bindings, which have made glue code nearly non-existant. Bindings are fantastic, but they come with a very steep learning curve and I feel like I’m just beginning to grasp them now. Anyway, here’s a bit of what I’ve gotten done […]

I’ve been doing some hardcore hacking on my pet project, an e-mail client named Kiwi, and what you see above are it’s first breaths of life. It’s not much to look at, but it’s significant progress.
I am finally able to load the inbox and display messages when they are selected in the rightmost pane. […]