I’m teaching beginning programming using C# to university business students (CIS) in the upcoming Fall semester.
It’ll be doubly fun, as I’ve never used C# until about a month ago. Sure, I’ve used plenty of other languages, but for some reason, never anything from .NET. (Partly it’s because I’ve used a Mac as my primary machine [...]
It’s probably old hat to anyone doing design for a living, but I found a couple of new color tools for OS X that are making my web design work easier.
I use TextMate for coding, and wasn’t thinking about the CSS bundle item that brings up OS X’s default color picker (Command-Shift-C; the TextMate bundle [...]
Via Gruber, who posts following a TechDirt article.
A federal judge denies an individual of property (contents of an email account) without notification, with no opportunity for appeal (the person is not a party to the matter), and with no cause to suspect wrongdoing.
Saith Gruber, who dubs U.S. District Court Judge James Ware “Jackass of the [...]
For years, I’ve kept a personal (and unfortunately, unwritten) list of books I think every manager, programmer, and [insert category here] should read.
A book every programmer should read
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master. Every programmer I hired was required to read this book. It’s a great resource for people managing programmers too. The book [...]
As I was driving in to school this morning, I had a mini-revalation on the difference between power-users and “regular” users. This thought may have been spawned by a research paper used in one of my classes [1], where power users became the de facto trainers during the implementation of an ERP system.
Maybe this is [...]
I recently updated to OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard. I’m liking it—most things feel a little bit snappier. I also prefer the tweaks to editing events in iCal (which didn’t go far enough; 10.4 was better), and the changes to Exposé.
However, several apps (or “hacks,” if you prefer) broke with the update:
WindowShadeX, a better minimizer. [...]
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