May 30th, 2004 | Published in Mac
Apple Software Design Guidelines
Apple posts some notes on developing software for Macs. I recommend this not only for other developers but also for anybody who enjoys thinking about software.
May 26th, 2004 | Published in PHP
taking the red pill WordPress XML-RPC Fixes for ecto WordPress 1.2 delta and ecto play well together - if you carefully educate the former to accept and work with the latter’s XML-RPC requests.
In my case (WordPress 1.2 delta, Ecto 1.1.4), I had to modify the xmlrpc.php file in order to sanitize the post_content and post_excerpt variables for the MySQL requests.
While I was at it, I also put some archaic support for the Markdown plugin into the xmlrpc.php file. This way, ecto will process your post entry through Markdown when previewing.
May 26th, 2004 | Published in Uncategorized
Al Gore (you remember him, he was the guy who was actually elected President of the United States), gave a major speech today in New York. It is absolutely worth reading. Here’s the text of the speech.
It is a good speech
May 26th, 2004 | Published in Uncategorized
backup/restore tool for files, folders, apps…
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23514
invesitgating backup solutions, when my current crisis is over I will have a story to tell…
May 25th, 2004 | Published in Uncategorized
maricopa learning exchange (MLX)
This is a site of learning objects
May 25th, 2004 | Published in Uncategorized
A previous hint discussed how to get PHP syntax coloring in Project Builder, and I wanted to do the same for XCode. I found a link buried in the comments of that previous MacOSXHint, pointing to this file:nnwww.knaub.info/Dow…nnhttp://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040522001330570
May 25th, 2004 | Published in Uncategorized
A healthy discussion on smart playlists over at the Apple iTunes forum has yielded this tidy little piece of AppleScript, which refreshes a specific list of smart playlists (as long as they have “live updating” checked):nnset…
May 24th, 2004 | Published in Blogroll, HTML
An article by Carolyn Snyder (author of Paper Prototyping) on web surfing habits and tricks that users don’t know. (Some gotchas that she encountered were not found by usability testing professionals in the Bay Area; the users from there seem to be a more web-savvy bunch because they have closer association with web developers, perhaps?) [via PapaScott]
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