Buggin' My Life Away
Musings of a Mad Mac Maven
The Glaring Hole in the NSTextInputClient Protocol
The fine folks at Apple generally do a pretty good job of designing the programmatic interfaces,...
Date: 11/28/2011
Steve Jobs
There's a lot being written about Steve's passing, but I'm afraid there's so much of it that truly...
Date: 10/06/2011
Usability and Styles
According to Pierre, I'm too ossified to discuss this subject. On the other hand, when Pierre uses...
Date: 05/30/2010
Managing Shared Code
Brent Simmons has some thoughts on managing shared code. Those ideas are a good start, the most...
Date: 05/27/2010
John Gruber Makes a Mistake
Over on DaringFireball, John Gruber points out an annoyance he has with icons used for "Save"....
Date: 05/11/2010
Am I Back?
OK, so Nadyne, after posting a nice article about using PowerPoint on Mac Mojo, spilled the beans,...
Date: 05/08/2010
What the Hell is That?
Seattle. Middle of January. Nothing in the sky but this huge, yellow thing. Looking at it hurts your...
Date: 01/21/2008
Trading Fours
I've had quite a bit of positive feedback on my last post, so I thought I'd do another musical post....
Date: 01/11/2008
Finding My Voice Again
Wow. What a stretch. We shipped the bits for Office 2008 off to manufacturing back in December, and...
Date: 01/07/2008
The OOF Infinite Loop
I'm surprised that I haven't hit this before at Microsoft, but I actually hit an OOF infinite loop...
Date: 07/27/2007
Your Text Here
On one of the many informational, internal e-mail lists of which I am a member, someone, today,...
Date: 05/02/2007
There Comes a Time
In every project, there's a point where you have to stop tweaking this and touching up that little...
Date: 04/04/2007
BBEdit 8.5
MacWorld has a decent review of BBEdit 8.5, but it fails to mention a new feature that is of...
Date: 12/14/2006
Open XML Converters for Mac Office
There’s been a bit of flak about the Office Open XML file format converters for Mac Office. Sheridan...
Date: 12/07/2006
Claiming Technorati
My profile is Technorati Profile. Nothing to see. Move along, now. Rick
Date: 08/25/2006
Vistas of Irony
There's an old ("old" by our industry's standards) urban legend about irony that actually found its...
Date: 06/15/2006
Two Years from Now
I predict that two years from now, my job will be exactly the same as it has been for the past 16...
Date: 06/15/2006
What's Wrong with this Code: The Answer
Bjarne Stroustrup is a brilliant man, which means he's very good at defining programming languages....
Date: 06/14/2006
What's Wrong with this Code?
A while back, Erik Schwiebert wrote about some of the travails of moving our build system from one...
Date: 06/13/2006
Scoble's New Adventure
The buzz around the bloggosphere is about Scoble's New Adventure. Robert adds his own words on the...
Date: 06/12/2006
Mac Office 2004 Resource Kit
Looks like we've updated the Mac Office Resource Kit to Version 2. The Resource Kit is a guide for...
Date: 06/09/2006
Mac BU's Lab on Your Mac Life
I just checked in on Your Mac Life to see what was in store for tonight's show, and it turns out...
Date: 05/24/2006
Flying Pigs
Last July, pigs flew through Hyde Park, and yesterday they flew through Cupertino. The only thing I...
Date: 04/06/2006
Of Intel Macs and Red Herrings
Scott Byer at Adobe put up a very nice post about the switch to intel and some of the growing pains...
Date: 03/24/2006
A Ghost from Mac World Past
As many people at Mac World pointed out to me, I've been rather silent lately. There's a reason for...
Date: 01/19/2006
Another Win Office Blogger
The list of Win Office 12 bloggers is growing. The latest addition is Will Kennedy, who is the...
Date: 11/15/2005
Dave Luebbert on Channel 9
What was the Ray Gram Memorial Feature that shipped in Apple's System 7? Who invented the combo box...
Date: 11/13/2005
Veteran's Day and Poppies
November 11 is my birthday. As a kid, I used to think it was cool that people would put flags out on...
Date: 11/11/2005
New Mac BU Blogger
We have a new Mac BU blogger this month. Nadyne is a usability engineer who works down in the...
Date: 10/21/2005
Hitting the Office Links
No, I'm not talking about a swing around the wing. Over the past several weeks, a handful of Office...
Date: 10/03/2005
Abriendo Puertas con XML
When Win Office 2003 shipped, there was a great deal of debate as to the “openness” of Microsoft’s...
Date: 09/29/2005
The MVP's are Coming!
And some are already here. Microsoft's global summit of Most Valued Professionals is this week. The...
Date: 09/28/2005
KatrinaSafe--the Entourage Connection
Dan Manrique tells part of the story of katrinasafe.com, with more to come. I thought you might like...
Date: 09/10/2005
A Meager Tribute
With all the political wrangling and the coulda-shoulda-woulda flotsam bobbing to the surface in...
Date: 09/08/2005