In a kind of déjà vu moment, two of my favorite blogs posted about the same thing, on the same day! The topic: How writing code is similar to writing prose. Christina Wodtke of Boxes and Arrows takes E.B. White’s “List of Reminders,” from The Elements of Style and compares them to web design. Matt […]
I’ve written before about our ExCodeWarrior dev shirts we got as reward for successfully moving our code from CodeWarrior to Xcode. Well, now you too, can pay your respects to CodeWarrior, in mournful black, as well as honor the great work the Xcode team has done, and all this in time for WWDC 2006! I’ll […]
After reading John Siracusa’s hilarious post about WWDC Buzz Word Bingo, I got to thinking about what I’d most like to see at WWDC. Here’s my list: 1. Make it brain dead simple to write multi-threaded applications. How simple? If my application runs fast on a dual core machine, I want it to run twice […]
Recently John Gruber wrote about the The Mac OS X Tipping Point and finished with this sumation: You can’t appeal to all people all the time, but Mac OS X comes remarkably close. The old Mac OS, as insanely great as it was, did not. I think what is so quickly forgotten about the transition […]
From the beginning I’ve liked what’s going on over at Make magazine. I love their video podcast and all the crazy projects they put on display. What they show are regular people, just like you and me, doing stuff, making things, being creative. I was just reading an article titled, Life is Not a Spectator […]
Dave Thomas posts about how Perl and Ruby are like glue that connect things together on the internet. The problem with Perl, he conjectures, is that it “sets”. When you read Perl, especially if you didn’t write the code, it’s difficult to discover what is going on and therefore difficult to modify. Now, you can […]
A while ago some friends and I took advantage of a spring day and went off road exploring. I took some pictures of some of the terrain. This picture above of the Jeep axle deep in mud reminded me a bit how things feel these days at work. It’s just part of the cycle. I’ve […]
Recently Schwieb wrote about what we are doing with Messenger on the Mac. In his post he makes this significant comparison: The MacBU is a medium-sized group at Microsoft (at least from my perspective) but compared to either the Win Office team or the various incarnations of the Messenger app on the Windows platform, we’re […]
Erik Schwiebert, one of our Dev leads here at MacBU has begun to blog. We sometimes develop nick names for folks, often because of duplication of first names, and I believe Erik fell in to this category sometime ago. He’s pseudonym became Schwieb and as you can see by his blog URL, the name stuck. […]
David Weiss 