Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Recently some colleagues of mine were asked the question:
"Given the (relatively) small percentage of OS X installations today, why would it make sense to write something using Cocoa? Any time you've tied yourself to an OS you are in danger of marginalizing yourself."
This is a good question, worthy of ...
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
Just going on record as saying TextMate is my best friend right now. Writing SQL with this thing is a snap. Select column of field names with Option key, press backtick, and it snaps the backticks around your field names. Go on - continue typing. Typing is matched for all ...
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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
PDF is a poorly-understood medium for most developers. In fact, I'll go as far as to say that 98% (not scientific - you get the picture) of the PDF creators out there have any idea of what is going on underneath the hood when they produce a PDF. I'm talking ...
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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
I received this email today from the University of Denver. The essence of it is: Don't upgrade to Vista or Office 2007. I thought I'd repost it here, with my own emphasis added for flavor:
To: University of Denver Students
Fm: Ken Stafford, Vice Chancellor for Technology
Re: Microsoft Vista and Office 2007
As most of ...
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
In my Database class this evening we were watching the instructor do some database modeling using Visio. I was playing along using Omnigraffle, but after a while it didn't go as far as Visio did in terms of automatically creating relationships, foreign keys, and that sort of thing. I wanted ...
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