I know a lot of web developers still use FTP clients to work on remote servers. I prefer to have a local dev install and use scp, rsync and git to push changes whenever it’s feasible. When I can’t do that, though, I use .
ssh
If you’ve ever thought of developing an iPhone or iPad app — or any app, really — Hilton Lipschitz has chronicled the journey of his new release, TimeToCall. It’s a great way to see the scope of an independent development project and the amount of work that goes into a carefully-considered application.
appreview, developer, iphone
I’d been meaning to write a script to do this for a while, and a post by Dr. Drang inspired me to whip it up. Dr. Drang’s is a TextExpander snippet (which also works fine in shell if you use “quoted form of” to be safe). This method is just a tad more convenient for Terminal usage. It’s a two-line bash function for quickly -ing to the location of the front Finder window with a simple command ().
macos, terminal
I’ve done 30 episodes of Systematic now. Every week I goad my guests into sharing their “Top 3 Picks.” It’s usually software (kind of my thing), but it can be just about anything. After so many episodes I began to realize that I had no way to give guests advance warning as to what had been mentioned recently. I needed a list of every link ever mentioned on the show, all in one searchable page.
scripting, systematic
It’s because the consumer cloud is easy and fast. But it’s not always secure enough for your business’ intellectual property. It certainly doesn’t meet Corporate’s policies for auditing and data retention. It’s simply not the cloud you’re looking for.
A new iPhone app with a clever premise hit iTunes today. Horizon is a calendar app with location-aware weather forecasts built in. Now you can see your schedule and what the weather will be during each appointment at a glance.
appreview, iphone
Fletcher Penney recently released MultiMarkdown Composer 2 on the Mac App Store. It’s a cleaned-up, smoothed-out, feature-packed version of the previous incarnation. I’m loving it.
appreview, macos
I was joined this week by John August, the screenwriter behind Frankenweenie, Corpse Bride, Big Fish and a dozen other great films. He’s also one of the masterminds behind the Fountain plain-text scriptwriting syntax and the upcoming app Highland which can convert Fountain syntax to a variety of output formats (including FDX).
podcast, systematic
