Buggin' My Life Away
Musings of a Mad Mac Maven
Compound Statement Macros
I had thought this was a rather well-known trick, but, after reacquanting myself with Alexandrescu's...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 08/31/2005
Mac Messenger 5.0
I've had a number of people, both in comments and in private e-mail, ask me about continuing...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 08/09/2005
Feeling Antinomial
Today's theme seems to be names. Dave Winer and Kosso are wondering about Robert Scoble's middle...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 06/22/2005
Gettin' Published
Well, APress is advertising it, and Amazon is taking orders for it, so I suppose I can now publicly...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 06/22/2005
Got Frontier and MacBird Experience?
Dave Winer is looking for a Mac developer with knowledge of Frontier and MacBird to work on his...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 06/15/2005
Big Dave (Which One?)
Dave Winer provided this link to an article posted by Dave Luebbert. Dave Luebbert was the...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 06/14/2005
Flipping Out
I've seen quite a few people comment in blogs that the endian issue I mentioned yesterday won't turn...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 06/07/2005
The Beginning of the Endian
So the rumors have been true. Apple is moving to Intel processors, which, in some ways, makes sense....
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 06/07/2005
Microsoft Office Open XML Formats
Scoble dropped the hint, and Mary Jo Foley spilled the beans. C|New has also jumped the gun on this....
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 06/02/2005
C++ Function Objects
C++ provides us with a number of ways we can shoot ourselves in the foot. If you work as a developer...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 05/15/2005
iTunes Weirdness
OK, so I have a smart play list that I call "Random LRP". Basically, it's like the party shuffle,...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 05/06/2005
Kenny Wolf
Those of you who've been around a bit know that Kenny Wolf used to work in Mac BU. His last gig here...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 04/11/2005
Subtle Bugs
It wouldn't surprise me for people to wonder how it’s possible for reasonably competent...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 04/10/2005
Somethin' Phishy
Over the past couple of days, I've received some e-mail messages purporting to be from PayPal. Each...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 04/09/2005
New Digs
The MSDN blogs have moved to new digs. We're no longer running on .Text. We're now running on...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 04/03/2005
Do You Know the Way to San Jose?
I think Roz got tired of doing the twice-weekly commute between San Jose and Redmond. In any case, I...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 04/01/2005
MPW C Error Messages
Those of us who've been programming the Mac for a few years have some fond memories of the old...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 04/01/2005
Wes Montgomery
When I first started this blog, I said I'd talk about music from time to time. I've been searching...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 03/30/2005
Usability Survey
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County has an online usability survey of GNOME. The timing is...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 03/29/2005
Marketing are Bad
Todd Bishop’s story in yesterday's Seattle Post-Intelligencer about Professor Sandeep...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 03/29/2005
Want to Talk to Me?
Martin Sevior wonders how one talks to me. Well, you come over to my blog, and you leave a comment....
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 03/13/2005
Oops!
Due to a combination of server issues and a wetware problem on my part, a couple of my posts from...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 03/12/2005
Selection Behavior
I'm absolutely certain that something like this has happened to you. I was putting together some...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 03/12/2005
OSS and Deaf Developers?
I came across this rant about feature requests in Gnome. I have to confess a sense of siding with...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 03/12/2005
Hungarian Notation (Again)
Cyrus is having difficulty parsing out the example given in Simonyi's original article on the...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 03/11/2005
Variations on "Open" Source Licenses
Jason Matusow, Microsoft's director of open source licensing, has started blogging. His first post...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 03/10/2005
Shared Note-taking
Chris Pratley talks aboutOneNote Shared Sessions. A while back, I wrote about the differences...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 02/23/2005
Caponomics
Way off topic, but Bruce Stram is a cousin of mine, and Football Outsiders has published a guest...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 02/18/2005
Who is Responsible
We’ve kept the beta e-mail list for Word 2004 open so that we can stay in touch with any lingering...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 02/05/2005
The Case of the Missing Tab
One of the things we noticed when we first started doing some rigorous usability studies with Word...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 01/12/2005
Scoble's Getting Cheesy
Robert Scoble is having a cheesy birthday party. Supposedly the party is full, but one can always...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 01/08/2005
Aceh Aid at IDEP
I blogged about the Aceh Aid Bucket Brigade and some of their technology needs. Since then, I’ve...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 01/02/2005
Urgent Needs
Via Scoble and Keith Pleas, I’ve come across the Aceh Aid Bucket Brigade. Susi Johnston has posted a...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 12/31/2004
Can't Write
Can't Write I had wanted to post the follow-up article I’d promised in my last post. But, like...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 12/30/2004
You Don't Need Word
You Don’t Need Word Back in late August, my article on the Anatomy of a Software Bug got...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 12/23/2004
Ode to Word
Ode to Word One of my coworkers received this from a friend. The author is the friend’s daughter. I...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 12/03/2004
Getting Personal
Has it really been three months since I’ve posted? Well, it’s been three months since we...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 12/02/2004
Let Word Do It
Following up to my last post on outlining, Marc Hedlund, one of the co-authors of Peer-to-Peer...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 08/31/2004
Adumbrating in Word
Whenever I used a word like adumbrate, my Grandmother would say, “Your high ejaculations are too...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 08/28/2004
Tent City Four
I’ve shied away from blogging about social issues, but I can’t let this one sit. Larry Osterman...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 08/07/2004
AppleScript and VBA: the Story of Sid and Nancy
In the few spare moments I’ve had over the past several weeks, I’ve followed some...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 08/05/2004
Snowballs in Summer
Snowballs in Summer They always start with something small. You take a three-day weekend to spend...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 08/03/2004
Scripting Word
Scripting Word Now, this is weird. My more recent tasks have involved working with both the Word...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 06/25/2004
Not Das Boot
Not Das Boot Matt Evans, a developer in the Great Plains group, has started blogging, and he opens...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 06/21/2004
From Bravo to Word
From Bravo to Word Not long after the Wired article about Word 5.1, someone sent me a link to this...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 06/20/2004
Word 5.1 Plus
Word 5.1 Plus I got wired yesterday with a refrain I hear often: Word 5.1 was the epitome of word...
Author: Rick Schaut Date: 06/18/2004