I was chatting with a fellow Mac and iPhone Developer yesterday and we were talking about taxes. I was telling him that one nice feature in the tax code is that business expenses aren’t taxed. Now it is silly to just spend your hard earned money on random stuff just to save on taxes. You …

It has been several months since I’ve blogged here. Sorry about that! I have been doing iPhone Consulting mainly since then. I’ll have to recount some of the lessons learned. I might also highlight some of the projects that I’ve done. I’m glad to see that some of my previously blogged Mac and iPhone Tips …

I read The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need yesterday. It was a lightning-quick and very entertaining read… especially since it is in Manga (which my family after looking over my shoulder means “comics for adults.”) I love self-improvement books anyways and I’ve enjoyed all of Daniel Pink‘s books. It …

Scott Stevenson put together a special CocoaHeads (that’s when a group of developers get together to talk about programming a Mac) at the Apple Store Downtown San Francisco. That Apple store is conveniently located a block away from where WWDC is being held (The Moscone Center) and also happens to be the same block as …

I’ve been secretly working on WebnoteHappy the past month after a development hiatus. I had to take a break there while Baby Cesar was young (he’s gotten really big now for an almost 6 month old) and while my indie business got off the ground. I feel very blessed to have the Ruby on Rails …

Have you ever seen that Geico commercial? The one with the movie announcer guy where he goes “Payback, this time it’s for real.” That’s sort of how I feel about going Indie (which I wrote up a bit on my other blog.) That’s correct – you heard right, I went Indie! So now I’m living …

Matt Gemmell wrote in Losing Direction: One of my dreams is of course to do the shareware thing; start a little software company and get some well-focused, beautiful little apps out there, targeting niche markets and filling those needs as perfectly as I can engineer them to. That’s exactly my dream with Happy Apps and …

One of the problems of developing a non document-oriented app (like TextEdit or VoodooPad) is that it can be hard to test. You can’t just start with fresh new documents with File | New Document. A lot of times you want to test out new features like Import into a fresh environment so you can …

About two years ago, my family and I put up a bird feeder so we could watch birds in our backyard. At first we had no birds. Zip. Nada. We hoped and prayed and did a little marketing by putting seeds all around it on the ground with aluminum foil. Birds are attracted by aluminum …

I booked my WWDC 2006 travel plans this weekend. I’m flying my favorite airline JetBlue which is cheap, has in-flight personal satellite TV, and flies direct from Dulles (which is about 30 minutes west of me) to Oakland (which is about 30 minutes outside of San Francisco.) I’m going to have a roommate to share …