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Documentation Sucks

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

A recent mailing-list discussion has raised my hackles about documentation. So at the risk of offending all the tech-writers out there, let me restate my thesis: Documentation Sucks! I’m not just saying that because I’ve been very slow to provide substantial documentation for my two in-house applications. The only thing worse than lack of documentation […]

Noooooooooo!

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

It looks like my dreams of replacing my Dell with a new MacBook are (temporarily?) shattered. [Via DaringFireball.net]

Kagi Universal

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Now that Apple has announced the immediate availability of Intel-based Macintoshes, the developer community needs to get serious about adjusting our projects so that they build and run natively on the machines. For a long time, Apple has made available the required SDK for “dry running” our projects as Intel-compatible builds. Some developers even took […]

Fake Video with iTunes Chapter Markers

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

The other day as I walked home from the gym, listening to my iPod Nano, I started to feel jealous of the iPod Video owners. I love my Nano, but it would be cool to be able to watch video on it from time to time. In spite of having a pretty good color screen, […]