The announcement of the iPad, and the recognition by some (e.g. Steven Frank, Frasier Spiers and Dan Moren) that this represents a new era of computing, gives me a powerful sensation of déjà vu.

I read a lot of articles online, and sometimes the ads and navigation links make it difficult to concentrate on the text of article, much less on the ideas that the text is trying to communicate. The folks at arc90 have come to the rescue with Readability, a JavaScript bookmarklet that reformats the current web page as a clean page of text:

The default behavior of Subversion when tunneled over SSH works well for simple cases. I encountered some more complex situations which required digging into advanced SSH features, and built some simple tools that make our Subversion life easier.

Upgrading an application can be an annoying process. In the best case, you click an Upgrade button and go on with your work; in the worst case, you spend hours in frustration trying to make the new version work. For some applications — such as Fetch — the upgrade experience is made simpler by code signing, a Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard technology.

Since the day Snow Leopard came out, much has been said about creator codes, preferred applications, and Universal Type Identifiers. Regardless of whether you favor the Leopard behavior — in which a Mac OS 9-style creator code trumps a file‘s extension — or the Snow Leopard behavior — in which a Mac OS 9-style creator code is completely ignored — you, as a developer, may run into a case when you need to make sure that a particular file will open with a particular app when the user double-clicks it in the Finder.

I started with the idea that we could redesign our website in 6 months. It took over two years.

No longer were we asking ourselves who we were or what shade of blue we liked; now we had to write code.

This is part 5 in a series on the redesign of fetchsoftworks.com; the series starts at Part 1: My Original Sin.

This is part 4 in a series on the redesign of fetchsoftworks.com; the series starts at Part 1: My Original Sin.

This is part 3 in a series on the redesign of fetchsoftworks.com; the series starts at Part 1: My Original Sin.