I suppose I’m pretty slow realizing this, but in reading Dave Hyatt’s post “High DPI Web Sites” and then John Siracusa’s excellent post “Declaration of resolution-independence” I finally realized what all this means for developers: one more expensive transition and lots of work for great graphic artists. Typically when you purchase your graphics you buy […]

Wow. There are quite a few comments and email feedback on my last post and some great questions too. Let me try to answer some of them. First and foremost… Question: What does it sound like when you reboot all those Macs at the same time? Answer: Very cool. It’s the most interesting BONG you’ve […]

I’m sure there’s lots of folks out there who know all about this, but I didn’t, so I thought I’d share. When trying to debug a nasty issue sometimes you’ve got to get creative and even employ some “magic” to help get to the root of the problem and that is exactly what Tech Note […]

MacTech has a very interesting benchmarking article on how well Office 2004 performs in Rosetta. Check it out here. One of my jobs here at work is to build and maintain the automated performance test we run on Office. We worked with Apple to make sure Rosetta worked well with Office 2004 and Apple did […]

I think regular, non-tech people have a fairly good, if rudementary, understanding about what a software tester or software developer does at Microsoft. These positions kind of fit some generally well known stereo types. One position that is easily forgotten is the program manager position. Steven Sinofsky has writen about what it means to be […]

I’ve been at MacWorld for Microsoft on and off since I was 18, and this was the best booth we’ve ever had. The openness allowed for lots of customers to be there. The in-facing booths really protected the 1:1 conversations from noise contamination and made working the booth stations much easier on the voice. Not […]

When we first heard about the switch to Intel and the corresponding requirement of also switching to Xcode someone came up with the great idea of the shirt above. The idea being that once a team has their application working in Xcode they get the shirt. Since the internal tools I write are infinitely less […]

What happens when you remove everything from a car that doesn’t contribute to driving performance? You produce my new dream car. Thanks to Brammo Motorsports and Ariel Motor Company for reminding me what can be done with just 7 employees focused like a laser on a single goal: driving performance. What did they name it? […]

Of all the blog posts on Boot Camp these two are must reads: 1. Cabel Sasser co-founder of Panic 2. John Gruber at Daring Fireball Together they pretty much sum it all up.

So Apple’s Boot Camp Assistant beta software announced today allows any Intel based Mac dual boot with Windows XP SP2. Very cool. They’ve even announced that this capability will be a part of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Some things to note: 1. If you already have multiple drive partitions, the Boot Camp Assistant will […]