I know that I should have these committed to memory by now but I don’t and I can never find them on the Web. Now I’ll never loose them! (Those sound like famous last words…) Symbol Command ⌥ option ⌃ control ⇧ shift ⇪ caps lock ⌘ command ⌧ clear ⌫ delete ⌦ del (erase [...]
Imagine my joy when the company owner decided (for reasons that I care not to divulge here) to swap his year old MacBook Pro for my nearly two year old Dell X1! I hadn’t been using the Dell since I also had a year old MacBook (white) and although I was giving up 20GB of [...]
To many of you this information will come as no surprise, but I’ve searched (perhaps not hard enough) for succinct definitions of the various “types” of software development tests and I recently found these which I have paraphrased. Unfortunately, I do not now recall the source from which I derived these notes. If you believe [...]
As I am want to do, I became involved in an exchange on Twitter with the lovely and talented Cal Evans concerning his thoughts about forsaking his current OS/hardware choice and going Mac instead. While this seemed like a slam dunk to me, one person’s experience seemed to be giving him pause. With Twitter’s 140 [...]
I will never write an “enterprise” software application; web-based or otherwise. Thus, BIG design makes little sense in my world. I’m a “scratch your own itch” developer. The problems that most interest me are closest at hand and, frankly, “traditional” software design practices would be wasted solving such problems. As the days, weeks, months, and [...]