Usually when I get an email message with HTML content, I reach for the delete key faster than you can say “spam!” But there are some messages I receive which contain important HTML content. For instance, the invoicing system one of my large corporate clients uses (why, I don’t know), is completely unusable in most […]

Since I’m a little obsessed with AppleScript, I end up pasting AppleScript code into my blog. I recently decided it was a real shame that I couldn’t easily replicate the way AppleScript code looks in Script Editor, in my blog. I thought about this situation for a while, and then did some experimenting. If I […]

Most Mac developers have, by now, given Apple’s CHUD Performance Tools Suite at least a cursory run-through. These tools, and in particular Shark, are incredibly effective for pinpointing performance problems that may be plaguing your application (or other code). The presence of these tools has helped many developers inside and outside of Apple produc more […]

Many system services on the Mac rely on command-line tools either stored in public paths or stashed away in hard-to-find places. When I’m curiously poking around on my system (as I’m a bit too often likely to be doing), I often discover one of these master-slave relationships and wonder exactly what’s going on behind the […]