Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Coda release panic…

May 8th, 2008

Panic’s Cabel writes on Coda’s mailing list, after someone asks when the next release is gonna be:
A company like Adobe, which has hundreds of engineers working on Photoshop, releases ONE version every two or three years, and maybe a single bug fix release in the interim. For the most part, we’re all cool with that, […]

Cocoalicious Photoshop

April 3rd, 2008

Scott Byer of Adobe on John Nack’s blog:
Don’t assume that we don’t use Cocoa and CoreImage. Photoshop CS3 already does in places.
Interesting.

What’s with the iPhone SDK FUD, O’Reilly?

March 26th, 2008

I just came across a hack job of an article on O’Reilly’s Network regarding Apple’s iPhone SDK.
It’s by Jonathan A. Zdziarski and you can read a printer-friendly version of it here.
Let’s examine mr. Zdziarski’s claims.
With the release of Apple’s SDK for building iPhone applications, many have plunged head-first into this new platform for the […]

Joel on Software, OK. Joel on Web Standards? Meh.

March 18th, 2008

I am a fan of Joel (of Joel on Software fame). Hell, I even bought two of his books.
Still, his latest post regarding IE8 standards support is, to put it succinctly, lame, what with the contrived examples about martian headphones et al.
I just don’t understand what the whole problem about some pages being broken on […]

I can has Wordpress 2.5?

March 12th, 2008

Wordpress 2.5, the new version that was due on March 10 seems to have slipped its’ deadline.
Nothing official on the WordPress blog yet, but according to a post on Planet Wordpress there are code quality problems at the moment and the new release date is 3/17/2008.
Just a week more then. Nice. Although the lack of […]