Andy's Laboratory

Just practicing with my new Wacom Intuos3 tablet.

I have never corresponded with Jesse Grosjean of Hogbay Software before, but I want to congratulate him on the release of WriteRoom 2.0. It looks like a fantastic application.

What got me blogging about WriteRoom though is a post on Jesse's blog where he explains the new $25 pricetag of a previously free application in response to an angry comment on VersionTracker.

But then I started reading comments on some popular download sites... ouch. The basic thesis is that WriteRoom is a great program, but I'm an evil person for charging $25 dollars for it. And once I'm evil a few other comments concerning Mori and Hog Bay Software in general are thrown in.

I'm not sure that I can make those people happy, but here I'll at least try to explain myself and the pricing of WriteRoom.

Link to Jesse's post, "The life and drama of a Mac shareware developer"

Labels: application, cool

I really want to use Xcode to edit Objective-C. I desperately want to. Xcode 3 comes closer to being a usable editor, but I really wish that Xcode had the following feature:



I never liked navigating around the brackets in Objective-C, so this was something I hacked into Emacs pretty early on while adapting to Cocoa.

On the topic of editors, there's a cool editor for Scheme called DivaScheme. It's heavily influenced by vi and it makes navigating through code a breeze. Much of what is cool in DivaScheme is possible because Scheme and Lisp's syntax is so minimal, but I don't see why the concept can't be applied to Obj-C as well. If you are planning to write Yet Another Text Editor, please do us all a favor and click the link below. The page has a short video tutorial.

Link to DivaScheme