Archive for November, 2006

Supporting Apple Help

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
I recently wrote my first draft of documentation for my upcoming application. Integrating this documentation into Apple Help was much easier than I expected. The Apple Help Viewer simply displays HTML files. More impressively, cascading style sheets (CSS) are supported. I hope this will allow me to share the identical HTML files between my application and the support section of my web site and simply have different CSS files for each. …

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The Delicious Generation

Monday, November 6th, 2006
Today, Paul Kafasis wrote about the good, bad, and ugly of the Delicious Generation. Having developed software for Mac OS X, and Mac OS before that, and System 7 before that, I certainly feel that I have an “old school” perspective on Macintosh software. (See, I still use the word “Macintosh.”) That said, I welcome positive change and agree with Paul that we old-schoolers shouldn’t feel that we are fighting this Delicious Generation but, rather, see what we can learn from them. …

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