I’m back into PandoraBoy development. Looks like Pandora changed something with their last UI update, and it’s broken PB and maybe also Pandora.FM (who uses the same API as we do). We’re just not getting events anymore from the API. So I’ve dropped a note to their support list and we’ll see if they can help us out at all. This is why Growl is broken; Pandora doesn’t know when tracks change.
I move between VS and XCode a bit without shuddering or fussing, which seems to make me a strange creature. In general, shocking as it is to say on a Cocoa list, VS is actually a much more powerful environment. Most who love XCode have little used VS (at least VS2005 or later, VS.NET is clunky IMO). But learning what actually is better about VS requires using XCode for quite some time. Most of the initial complaints are simply small differences between the two; many of which I prefer the XCode way. But then, XCode is a Mac app, and I generally prefer Mac UI.
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