Category Archives: Programming

SubEthaEdit for $0 is a great deal

Posted on April 25, 2006 by Russell Finn

SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys is an excellent collaborative editor that I’ve used to help create session notes at past PyCons. Many people also use it as a programming editor, although to date I’m still in the BBEdit camp. Now, as part … Continue reading →

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New Tiger window style documented… sort of

Posted on June 20, 2005 by Russell Finn

The new “unified title and toolbar” window style I previously commented on has now made an appearance in Apple’s documentation. Unfortunately, it just tells how to activate the feature from Carbon. We’re still waiting guidance on when to use it…

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Exclusive: New Tiger window style deciphered

Posted on April 15, 2005 by Russell Finn

Paul Thurrott accidentally wrote a pretty favorable review of Mac OS X 10.4 (“Tiger”). Towards the end, he apparently realized he was losing all his street cred in the Windows world, so he threw in some gratuitously negative comments — … Continue reading →

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EA Spouse speaks out

Posted on November 19, 2004 by Russell Finn

I’m only just hearing about the EA spouse who spoke out about the increasingly extreme conditions under which the SO was working. At last count this single weblog entry had 2780 comments. Reading the description of the EA development process … Continue reading →

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Followup to first annoying C# thing

Posted on August 13, 2004 by Russell Finn

My friend Nick dashed off the following quick reply to my previous screed (in its first incarnation as an email message to him): I think it’s the difference between thinking of it as a verb or a noun. That would … Continue reading →

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The (first) thing annoying about C#

Posted on August 12, 2004 by Russell Finn

[I haven't gotten too far into the language so I can't presume there won't be more...] I want to like C#. I think it has a lot of advantages over the widely used languages that come before it. When it … Continue reading →

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