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Although I got the web application book for PHP, I'm starting with the online PHP Manual. It's probably the best step-by-step guide to a new language I've ever seen.

This is also confirming my long-held belief that languages are easy. APIs are hard. PHP is basically a tame perl. Nooooo problem. I bet it's going to take me a while though to get into the flow with the PHP APIs for things like database manipulation, networking, etc. That's where the book I picked up will help.

I'm in the process of updating my fink to a version that works with Mac OS X 10.2.

[via diJEST: a journal of extrapreneurial strategy and technology] Reporting a project's status upward shouldn't take more than 5 minutes. The technique is to boil everything down to a well structured, bullet-heavy, one-pager you can forward weekly or monthly.

diJEST: a journal of extranpreneurial strategry and technology headlines (link)

Another great software development article...

[via Disobey Nonsense Network] Wonderful Alan Cooper article: 14 Principles of Polite Apps. Read the article for explanations of: 1. Polite Software Is Interested in Me 2. Polite Software Is Deferential to Me 3. Polite Software Is Forthcoming 4. Polite Software Has Common Sense 5. Polite Software Anticipates My Needs 6. Polite Software Is Responsive 7. Polite Software Is Taciturn About Its Personal Problems 8. Polite Software Is Well-Informed 9. Polite Software Is Perceptive 10. Polite Software Is Self-Confident 11. Polite Software Stays Focused 12. Polite Software Is Fudgable 13. Polite Software Gives Instant Gratification 14. Polite Software Is Trustworthy (link)

Something poetic on hockey, of all sports...

[via Michael McCracken - Weblog] There's ma in hockey too... It just comes in shorter bursts. (am I missing a point here?) The ma in hockey comes while a pass is on its way, in the lull after a play, or the two seconds of nothing between a goal and the ensuing celebration when noone really knows whether it went in. You can see it in the center's faces before the puck drops on a faceoff. Most distinctly, you can see it right before a pass gets in place for a one-time shot. The puck's on its way to the shooter. (In my mind, it's Alexei Kovalev, but you can use whoever. OK, no Eric Lindros.) He's got his stick raised, everyone's looking toward him, but noone can move yet. The pass froze the defensemen, and the goalie can't see the puck. In that moment, nothing is happening, but everything's about to. It's ma, only shorter. (link)

-useful-objc-dev-tool

[via bbum's rants, code & references] A new version of Accessorizer came out today. It is a very useful little app that, given a variable declaration, generates the various random Obj-C idioms that developers have to create over and over and over again when building Cocoa/ObjC apps. (link)

[via bbum's rants, code & references] A new version of Accessorizer came out today. It is a very useful little app that, given a variable declaration, generates the various random Obj-C idioms that developers have to create over and over and over again when building Cocoa/ObjC apps. (link)

of some tweaked features in Sid.

Unsanity creates really cool Mac OS X interface hacks - haxies.

This means, being a shareware developer, we have to release things at a steady pace to get noticed by general public (link)

[via bbum&[#39](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/39);s rants, code & references] A new version of Accessorizer came out today. It is a very useful little app that, given a variable declaration, generates the various random Obj-C idioms that developers have to create over and over and over again when building Cocoa/ObjC apps. (link)

[via bbum&[#39](http://monkinetic.blog/tag/39);s rants, code & references] A new version of Accessorizer came out today. It is a very useful little app that, given a variable declaration, generates the various random Obj-C idioms that developers have to create over and over and over again when building Cocoa/ObjC apps. (link)

As several people have already noted, Google has made some major changes in their most recent update. The weblogging community was hit hard... (link)

One of my alpha testers just emailed me:

A big light bulb just went on in my head about Sid, NetNewsWire Lite, and Conversant. Wow!

[via Aaron Swartz: The Weblog] As you can see, copyright lengths go up as soon as Mickey gets a little too close to freedom. (link)

Heh. I released a new build of Sid to the alpha-victims today, and an hour later had 6 (!) emails from Clark Venable, tester extraordinaire.

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Feeling lost? Wondering, "What do I do next?" This site is for you. (link)

I finally got Sid's Applescript-powered email error reporting working today. It took ages to get it all right; it took getting the Applescript right, then making sure the Sid's Application Support folder was created, then writing out the error file, then finally reading in the script, filling in the parameters, can calling it. It works!!!

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