Hi.

About me

I am a Mac programmer currently living in Huntington Beach, California. I am a developer on the Adium and Growl projects, and I have written many things of my own:

Programs

English-language writings

Apple Extended Keyboard II Overlay Generator, an app to make printable function-key overlays for that keyboard Application Locator, an application to reveal the location of your default copy of any other application Beads, an entry in the zeroth Iron Coder contest BZSoundboard, an app that lets you play sounds at short notice CPU Usage, an unobtrusive (unless otherwise necessary) way to see how hard your processors are working EasyHash, an app to show you the MD5 and SHA-1 hashes of the contents of a file finder, a way to issue certain commands to the Finder from the command line GiantColorSwatch, an app that shows a large window filled with a color; you select the size and color image, a utility to scale and convert images An ISO 8601 date and time parser and unparser List Files, an app that recursively lists a folder (wrapper on ls -AFklR) LMX, an XML parser that works backwards Make RAM Disk, a simple application to create a RAM disk on Mac OS X A set of standard feed icons for Safari A program to generate a starburst in PDF format The Symbolicator, a command-line tool for Mac OS X application developers to make crash logs from their applications useful Translate Text, an application to make it easy to translate text between human languages UTI Property List Helper, an application to make it easy to declare and use Uniform Type Identifiers in your Info.plist

My online journal (a.k.a. “blog”), where I publish articles, usually about Cocoa My Twitter feed How to Draw Beads, a breakdown of the images used in Beads A photo-illustrated guide to replacing the hard drive in your G4 Cube The worst possible Hello World, with a study of why it sucks My CocoaHeads Lake Forest presentation on hunting leaks with Instruments I feel good about Mac open source: links to many people's reusable Mac source code The iPhone Application Graveyard, a catalog of applications that Apple has pulled (or, in some cases, rejected) from their App Store An examination of what happens when you compress an empty file Everything you need to know about pointers in C (the most popular thing on this site) A meditation on rotating a raster image Screencast codec showdown!: A comparison of the quality and file-size of different QuickTime video encoders' handling of a sample screencast My CocoaHeads Lake Forest presentation on unit testing in Mac applications (context in my announcement of the video) A vi/vim cheatsheet for Dvorak or QWERTY My résumé, in HTML or PDF.

Contacting me

You can contact me by email. Spammers, however, are not welcome; do not send me advertisements.

In order to defeat spammers' email-address-harvesting bots, I must express my email address in a manner that is human-readable but not computer-readable. To that end:

In case you don't know, an email address is constructed from:

1. The username. The username on my email address is “prh”.
2. A U+0022 COMMERCIAL AT symbol (@).
3. The hostname of the mail server. This is the same hostname as this web server. Don't include the “www.” if you used it; use only the domain name.

2009-12-31 http://boredzo.org/