I generally buy one computer a year. I got my 17″ PowerBook back in April 2004 and my Quad in October 20051. This year I plan to get a laptop, and there is no doubt it will either be a MacBook (MB) or a MacBook Pro (MBP). The ability of either machine to run Mac…
Development Archives
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A Tasks Pro™ customer tells me that he can’t log in to Tasks Pro™ in IE 7. I’ve also been told that FeedLounge doesn’t work properly in IE7. Furthermore, I’ve been told that IE 7 is still in a state of flux that I shouldn’t bother even trying to fix either of these at the…
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Over the last few years, I’ve gotten an increasing number of complaints about the default font size on this web site and in my other web based software1. When I upgraded to my 30″ display, I finally realized why. Pixels have been getting smaller and smaller over the years. For comparison: 22″ Cinema Display: 1600…
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I’m quite happy about Apple’s Boot Camp, this is great for web1 developers. I’m going to need to start testing my apps on IE 7 pretty soon, and I don’t much fancy adding another windows box to my stable of machines just for testing in another browser. However, adding an Intel Mac mini that I…
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Another little hint at one of the things I’ve been working on lately. This post is part of the project: Tasks Pro™. View the project timeline for more context on this post.
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I went through and created PHP Documentor formatted documentation for the code I’ve got so far for the little OS project I hinted at a few weeks ago. I’m considering doing this for Tasks Pro as well, creating a developer’s kit to sell as an add on. I’ve been using the Zend Studio on Mac…
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Yesterday WordPress version 2.0.2 was released, fixing several security issues. If you haven’t upgraded already, you should go do so. I spent most of my Friday upgrading WordPress installations (this blog, my Golf blog, the FeedLounge site and the King Design site). For the most part, everything went smoothly – however there were a few…
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I did a little cleanup on the OPML generated by FeedLounge today. The old OPML was basically the result of copying examples found in the wild, so I went through the necessary steps validating the output, reading the specs, and double-checking what I was seeing against NetNewsWire’s output. 🙂 I fixed most of the issues,…
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As discussed yesterday, I’m a fan of tabbed interfaces. The only application I use with regularity that isn’t tabbed is my e-mail client. I don’t like using any type of three-pane view for e-mail, instead I open each message in a new window in Mail.app and Thunderbird1. Perhaps because of my style of mail client…
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If you’ve contacted me regarding design work in the past 6 months, you’ve probably gotten a reply similar to this: I rarely do design jobs these days, unless the client has a clear understanding that it’s very difficult to do accurate estimates for design work. The time spent and resulting cost depends on how much…
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I liked what I read last week in the TextMate blog so much, I decided to use it exclusively for a project. When I tried TextMate back in the 1.0 days, I found I didn’t entirely care for it, for various reasons. On the flight home last night, I used TextMate for some PHP editing…
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Day 2 of Mashup Camp was a little more informal (if that’s possible) than day 1 – it was quite interesting to see everyone’s creations in action and discuss various development challenges with them. Special thanks to: my travel partner Steve, Adam, DeWitt, Anil, Niall, Davey, Tim and everyone else I had the pleasure of…
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Mashup Camp is my first “unconference” experience – it’s been quite interesting. The basic theory is to get a bunch of people together and let them geek out in loose groups on various topics, with little to no structure. It worked surprisingly well – Steve was impressed as well. The sessions I attended today: API…
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I’m back in the Bay Area again for a couple of days to attend Mashup Camp. I’m quite looking forward to it. Note to self: if you played doubles volleyball earlier in the day, remember to ice your knees before getting on a plane. Overheard on the plane, producing some snickering from Steve and myself:…
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I’ll be fielding questions at the Colorado PHP meeting downtown tonight – feel free to come by and ask me something. 🙂 The meeting details are in the mailing list (which I assume has archives somewhere), however if you want to come and can’t find the info – drop me a note and I’ll send…