First let me say, I love Netflix. When I’m not programming, sleeping, or running, I’m usually watching Netflix. What a life! A friend who also loves Netflix came to me with a puzzling problem. He’s coming out of a long term relationship, and among the other shared possessions to be carefully divided was the couple’s […]

(Note: The title of this entry is an homage to Aldous Huxley’s classic Doors of Perception.) Most Mac users and many developers don’t realize how extensively windows are used in the composition of the overall UI experience on Mac OS X. In the years since Mac OS X was first released, the basic “Quartz Window” […]

One of the aspects of being a professional software developer that is a real grind is the tedious, careful double-checking we must do in order to reduce the odds that our work will lead to some major metropolitan area bursting into flames. Double-checking means diffing. Diffing is hard. Even with somewhat friendly tools at our […]

I’ve decided to make a slimmed-down version of FastScripts available, starting immediately in conjunction with a minor 2.2.7 upgrade of FastScripts. FastScripts Lite [d/l] offers much of the same organizational and performance functionality of FastScripts, at an infinitely lower price. What you don’t get in FastScripts Lite is best summed up by what you do […]