One of the less palatable aspects of coaching software developers and leading teams (and hiring, let's not forget) is that a heck of a lot of folks out there don't know that they don't know.

The bar is set pretty low for developer skills and knowledge, and the sad reality is that 90%+ of us are - compared to the best - just lowly apprentices. But so many developers refuse to accept that, in the grand scheme of things, they are no great shakes.

This may be of use someday to someone trying to figure out their Cocoa bindings problem.Summary: Do not bind some columns in a table to one array controller, others to another. I’m using RubyCocoa 0.13.1. I had an NSTable bound to an NSArrayController (bound in turn to preferences). I wanted to replace that NSArrayController with [...]

Michael Hunter recently interviewed me for his five questions series on Dr Dobb’s. You can find the interview here.