Author Archive
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 [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Code Editors,SlickEdit Products by Matthew E
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 [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in Programming by Matthew E
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Geek Artifacts
Look at this. It’s worthless – ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless. Men will kill for it. Men like you and me. – René Belloq, Raiders of the Lost Ark Whether it be changing jobs, [...]
