Getting Things Done

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

OK … I mean this in the nicest possible way, because I have also considered (and may someday pursue!) writing my own ToDo-type application. But I’d like to offer my revision on a popular joke from academia… Those who can, do Those who can’t do, write ToDo apps. Those who can’t write ToDo apps … […]

Mail Smart Folders

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

Maybe this should be filed under “No Duh” but it’s taken me this long to figure out that Mail’s smart folders might actually save my life. For the past year or so, I’ve adopted the “save everything” approach, ala gmail, except on my Mac. So I have this huge “Received Mail” archive that actually, for […]

A Moveable Beast

Friday, February 9th, 2007

Implementing reordering table views is something of a first-time obstacle in Cocoa. The basic gist is you take responsibility for dragging from and to the table view in question, and thereby implicitly support drag reordering. This technique is demonstrated by Apple’s DragNDropOutlineView example. Faced with the desire to implement such functionality in a bindings-oriented application […]

OMG BBEdit HTML Code Folding

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

I’m doing some modest revision to my web site, when I notice one of those stupid HTML glitches where you’re just positive you must have forgotten to close a tag or something. Thanks to the generally forgiving nature of most web browsers, the page looks more or less OK, except that some table column is […]