Matt Legend Gemmell Modesty is Lying

Mac devs Manchester meet-up

Hot on the heels of our upcoming Edinburgh mac devs meet-up, there’s one in Manchester next week too: you can read about it here.

It’s on Thursday, May 15 2008 beginning at 6:30 pm, and it’s at the Manchester Digital Development Agency, 117-119 Portland Street, Manchester M1 6ED. If you’re going to be in the area on Thursday, be sure to drop by!

Mac devs Edinburgh meet-up

Details here.

We’re meeting at Baroque, 39-41 Broughton Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3JU, on Tuesday 13 May 2008, from 19:00. Email David (as requested in the post I’ve linked to above) if you’re coming along, and feel free to let me know here too.

Source code update

Hi all,

This is just a note/update regarding my Cocoa source code, or rather two notes:

1. I’ve added a Donate button to the source code page. You’re of course always utterly welcome to use my code completely free of charge - and I’m really glad so many of you are finding it useful - but if you do feel like making a small donation to support my efforts, you can now do so easily. Any and all gratuities very much appreciated, etc. Enough said.

2. We’ve recently passed the 50 apps milestone on the Featured Apps page, which is just amazing. I’m thrilled that so many of you are finding a use for my code, and it’s an awesome feeling to check an app’s About box and see my name there (or as my mate Jim says, to see than an app “has Gemmell Inside”, a slogan I’m understandably forbidden by Lauren to use).

   If your app uses my code and you’d like it to be listed, please email me (contact info here), because I’d love to link to your site.

One final thing: remember that some of my code is now available via Subversion at svn.cocoasourcecode.com - always check to see if the package you want is there before downloading one of the zip files, because the repository will of course always have the most up to date version. Thanks!

So long, CyberStudio

So we hear today that Adobe is discontinuing GoLive, and I just wanted to mark the occasion. Way back in the day, I worked for GoLive Systems in evangelism/support, and I got the job because of how much I loved CyberStudio (Adobe GoLive’s original name, and Mac-only at the time).

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Icon Resource Review

Following up on my earlier post, I’ve had a chance to go through the Icon Resource icon design tutorial videos in detail, and thought I’d post a few thoughts.

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