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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Last Minute Gift Ideas for the Programmer in your Life
If you’re in need of one last gift for the techie on your holiday shopping list, we suggest the following. Caffeinated Soap No, we’re not making this up. http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/giftsunder10/5a65/ Between end-of-year project deadlines, gift shopping, and other holiday preparations, a coder can get really squeezed for time. And you don’t want to back a programmer [...]
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Monday, December 5th, 2011
SlickEdit for Mac doesn’t look like iTunes
Last week we released our first public beta of SlickEdit v16.1 for Mac. This version replaces our previous iterations that used the X11 windowing system. Although we are using a cross-platform UI library which uses Cocoa for UI, and we’re writing quite a bit of our own Cocoa code for other Mac features like the [...]
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Friday, October 21st, 2011
I Didn’t Buy Your Book
Dear Computer Book Publisher: I didn’t buy your book. There are several reasons I walked out the door without shelling out for your title. First off, fifty bucks on the sticker price subjects a book to a lot of extra scrutiny. When I think of all I can do with that sum, the bar gets [...]
