Some time ago I had the great privilege of working for a week in New York City at the Fog Creek headquarters. Aside from getting a chance to meet Joel and the rest of the staff, I was also able to do some early exploratory work on the Mac version of Copilot, which went live […]

If you use Xcode often, surely you appreciate the “Code Sense Index.” This is the magic cache of symbolic info that allows tricks like command-double-clicking a variable name to jump to its declaration, or Opt-Period to complete a function name. Indexing makes life for programmers about one bajillion times easier. Unless. Ughh!!!!! Angst, angst, angst! […]

We in New England and points north were treated to a Leopard Tech Talk from Apple today, held in glamorous Dedham, MA. I was very shocked and pleased to observe a huge crowd of attendees, and when I asked a member of Apple’s staff, he suggested that the number of registered attendees was around 400 […]

While I’m busy turning this into a links blog, I should point to Paul Kafasis’s excellent writeup about exhibiting at MacWorld. Paul takes an “is it worth it” analytical approach that should be interesting to most of us and really useful to anybody considering exhibiting. File under: future fantasy reference.