Marc Charbonneau’s Blog

Last week I bought a new cell phone; a Sony Ericsson w810i from Cingular AT&T. My last phone was purchased years ago, back when even having a color screen was a high-end luxury option, so I’ve been having fun with all the new features on the w810i. In case anyone else is considering using this [...]

Pandora.com on the new royalty fees:
I’m writing today to ask for your help. The survival of Pandora and all of Internet radio is in jeopardy because of a recent decision by the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, DC to almost triple the licensing fees for Internet radio sites like Pandora. The new royalty [...]

Some good news this week for Cocoa developers. Greg Robbins at Google recently released an Objective-C framework that allows you to use the APIs for Google Calendar, Google Base, Google Spreadsheets and others in an application, without having to worry too much about what’s going on behind the scenes.
It seems to me like this will [...]

Cocoa makes it easy to bind an NSDate object to an NSTextField, allowing the user to view a date and time without writing any code for formatting or validation. As is often the case though, this doesn’t always exactly fit with what we want to achieve. There are situations where the user might want to [...]

One of the things I’ve been doing as I get ready to sell Runner’s Log is choosing a payment processing system. Since my expected sales don’t justify the cost and time of using a dedicated credit card gateway, I’m looking at services like Paypal, Google Checkout and Kagi, among others.
Doing some reading yesterday, I found [...]