Site redesign imminent

June 27, 2008

I’m slowly getting everything ready to get espresso served here off the ground.  Part of that has been talking to a couple of graphic designers about site design and icon design.  After all, I’m a programmer and I can’t draw for the life of me.  Photoshop to me is an app that just puts loads of stuff all over my system.

Hopefully sometime in August things will start to take shape.


Creating iTunes Scrollers

June 18, 2008

Apple introduced new scrollers in iTunes 7 and then moved on to give us the HUD, which many developers want their own scrollers for too. In Leopard, many of us thought that these would come in a nice, shiny box; but as they didn’t we’re all forced to roll our own. The common method is to draw all the components in Photoshop and then make a composite image when subclassing, but now with NSGradient and some nice additions to NSBezierPath all these have become quite easy to do, even for those with little artistic ability.
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New Site Address www.espresso-served-here.com

June 15, 2008

Hi all,

Just thought I’d let you know that you can now reach this website at www.espresso-served-here.com. I’m going to slowly be making changes to the site as I develop the brand for my software company. All previous links around the web to http://jonathandann.wordpress.com will still work though.

Jon