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I’ve been playing with Dashcode today, creating my first ever Dashboard widget (something that I wanted to do for some time) as part of a whole project I’m working on right now.
Basically I’ve discovered that there are, roughly speaking (and please correct me if I’m wrong), two kinds of Dashboard widgets:

Those that you cannot resize, [...]

One of the best learning tools I have found in my career is to take someone else’s code, and to modify it slightly to see what happens, to play with it, and eventually to release that code in this blog, or send it to the original author, fixing it somehow or adding some feature:

I fixed [...]

I love Twitterlex. It’s a Mac OS X Dashboard widget, and the main interface I use to send tweets. However, I didn’t like the fact that it did not highlight links in the tweet list! So I created a modified version (without authorization from the author, mind you) that does just that!

For those interested, I [...]

As you might know, Argentina has changed its timezone today from GMT-4 GMT-3 to GMT-2; as a result, Apple’s World Clock dashboard widget does not (currently) show the correct time for our preferred tango+asado+soccer city.
This happens because the code of this widget calls the “TimeZoneInfo.currentTimeForTimeZone” method (line 582 of the World Clock.js file), which is [...]