Finale PrintMusic: Can’t RTFM?

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

This is such a simple thing, and I call this a major oversight on the part of the software vendor: I kept getting errors when trying to access the user manual or tutorials from within Finale PrintMusic 2006, getting errors that read something like "Could not open PMTOC.pdf". I found ...

Zend/PHP Conference, days 3 & 4

Friday, October 21st, 2005

We wrapped up the Zend/PHP conference today and overall it was quite a good show. At the very least, I have my work cut out for me here. I have a stack of books that I picked up at a nice show discount from the Sams booth, based on recommendations ...

Zend/PHP Conference, Days 1 & 2

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

I've been here the past couple of days at the Zend PHP conference in Burlingame. Quite a good show all around so far. This is the first event of a planned annual series, and from what I hear the attendance has greatly exceeded expectations. Looking forward to many more of ...

Blueberry Tiger

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

While my old PowerBook waits in the shop for a new motherboard (yes, the PB12 shall rise again), I am using a blueberry iMac. This was a low-end 350 MHz type, and it has a decent 576 MB RAM installed. I had no problem wiping the system and installing Panther. But ...

DW8

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

What I love about the new Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: The Mac installer is a smaller download than the windows version. CSS code completion improvements PHP coder improvements and support for PHP5 Improved CSS rendering CSS visualization of margins and padding Faster than the last ...