Nick Gravgaard has come up with a pretty simple solution to the “tabs vs. spaces” problem. He proposes a system for the elastic interpretation of tabs (via Joel) by text editors. Basically it comes down to treating tabs as indicators of a “new column,” instead of assigning an arbitrary number of spaces to them. The […]

It’s been a little while since I critiqued (or mercilessly attacked, depending on your perspective) an application’s UI. Actually, it hasn’t been that long at all, but I just downloaded and tried the Mac OS X version of Meetro, and we might as well learn from some of their successes and mistakes. Let me just […]

This post is part of my MacBook Pro Complaints series. Instead of (or in addition to) linking directly to this post, consider linking to the series link, which includes a summary of all findings to date and direct links to the pertinent downloads that users may find useful. Thanks for reading! I got my MacBook […]

I have never gotten very good at any of the popular shell scripting languages. Over the years, I’ve dabbled in Bourne sh scripts, Perl, awk, and sed. I was never one of those magical guys who could make anything happen in a few seconds. But I’ve always wanted that to change. I’ve decided to learn […]