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Mac Interface Builder

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I hope to one day look back on my naïvety and have a hearty laugh at my expense but now as I climb the steep learning curve of the Mac's Interface Builder tool I am only able to curse the names of all the designers and developers responsible.  I know the Mac team has an unassailable reputation for wonderful UI but, at this point, I can only assume that when they worked on this tool they were all suffering from Dengue fever . Magic may be wonderful for Grandma's email reader but in a development tool it is not something I look for.  As developers it's our job to know how things work and this thing hides all the details.  The Interface Builder relies on you to write code to bind to the magic object it creates and it provides no hints about what that code might be.  The tool is happy to read the code you've written to try and bind to objects that you've previously identified but doesn't have the common courtesy to generate a comment or a stub when your create an

Nuance is Hiring

The team I work on is looking for some talent.  We build direct to consumer stuff for smart phones - primarily iPhone but potentially other platforms as well.  Here's the job description : http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/sof/1608283373.html Strong C skills and a personality that fits in with a bunch of software nerds are both required.  Experience with mobile development of any kind would be nice but is not essential.