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What Is Your IDE Coding Font of Choice?

These days I've been spending a chunk of my spare time in XCODE, which offerers a lot more configuration options than most IDE's I've used before.  I've been able to make it look just like my favorite TextMate theme, more or less.  When I used to spend most waking hours a day actually coding, I never had the opportunity to use an IDE with a black background (except VI and a terminal), and now I find that I need the contrast so I can stare blankly at the screen trying to remember a fraction of what I've forgotten without going snow blind.
I'm curious, what is your current font of choice?  I'll thoughtfully consider the value of all comments except for anyone that says Times New Roman, which is the devil's font.

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Here are the details...  everything is Monaco 11 but i use Courier New for comments to make them stand out a bit more...

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Posted October 20, 2009
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Programming an Exercise in Being Wrong

Programming is an exercise in overcoming how wrong you’ve been in the past. At first you’ll overcome the syntax errors, then you’ll overcome the structural errors, and then you’ll come to align your code with the standards of a greater community and you’ll feel safe and like you’ve made it. You haven’t – you’re still wrong because you’re always wrong. You are playing a game you cannot win. And let’s face it – if it was a game you could win you’d not be playing at all.
via kickingbear.com

I like this quote - and maybe just this time, he is right.

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Posted October 7, 2009
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Quick Screencast of 'Briefs' Out Of The Box


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I just created a quick and dirty screencast of Briefs code in action after pulling it from Github and just running it. We develop iPhone apps for clients at iCrossing and I just think this is a simple (read: elegant) way to demo work without putting in too much up front time (which I'm told equals money).
I don't work on the consulting side anymore but did for a very long time. We always tried to think of useful ways for our creative to show their stuff without having to us in (us = software engineers).

code here: http://github.com/capttaco/Briefs

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Posted September 27, 2009
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Briefs: A Cocoa Touch Framework for Live Wireframes

Test & Validate Your Designs on the iPhone

Briefs is a framework for packaging concept screens & control schemes that run live on the iPhone and iPod Touch. This allows you to experience the feel of your concept without the expense of development.

Each brief is simply a .plist that references images, in formats such as PNG, GIF and JPEG. Since they are image based, it allows anything from scanned paper sketches, to the full blown mockups you created in your favorite image editor. These briefs are loaded into the Briefs application and can be run directly on the device. Briefs can be loaded manually onto the device or pulled dynamically from a briefcast.

Other Uses

There are several creative uses for Briefs. Elevator pitches, notes, and interactive books can all take advantage of the technology in the framework. And using briefcasts, there is a simple avenue for distributing your content to other Briefs users.

Beta source code available today on Github

via giveabrief.com

Great idea and a lot easier for designers to mock up UI for touch apps without having to learning Interface Builder or having to ask a developer to mock up for you.

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Posted September 27, 2009
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When not to release

But development has come in fits and starts. Mr. Jobs killed the project twice in recent years, the first time because the battery life was too short, and the second time because there was insufficient memory, said one of the people familiar with the matter.
via macrumors.com

Knowing when to apply the brakes is probably as important as knowing when to step on the gas.

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Posted August 24, 2009
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Recruitment - 5 tips from Aussie software house Atlassian
via blogs.atlassian.com

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Posted August 12, 2009
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