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Packaging Upgrades

This weblog entry details the opening of the FreeAgent external drive from Seagate. As the blog entry title suggests, it’s clear that Seagate’s been influenced by Apple’s packaging habits. What I found interesting isn’t so much the overall look (white boxes with decent design) but that they also seem to have done a [...]

Rejoined the Mac Nation

The first computer I ever purchased with my own money was a Macintosh LC which, if I recall correctly, cost about $2000 back in 1990 or so. I bootstrapped that LC into a consulting gig that kept me occupied with Mac development for a number of years. A number of Macs [...]

Efficient Syntax

My day job is pretty interesting On some projects, over the course of fixing one bug or adding one feature I may write or modify code written in C++, Java, Python and Lua. If our code generator is involved, you can add Perl to that mix. None of those languages is used trivially so I [...]

Smalltalk for Everyone

My latest article, “Smalltalk for Everyone” is up on O’Reilly’s OnLAMP site. With this I article, I’m hoping that someone who is initially approaching Smalltalk will get their bearings on the language and the environment in a way that helps them navigate the vast array of information about Smalltalk that’s available.

Croquet Videos

Mark McCahill has some nice videos/screencasts up relating to the Croquet SDK. The first two are a brief introduction to the environment. The third is a rather nice, quick introduction to developement in the Squeak environment on which Croquet is based.
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