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Application Design Mistakes
Sep 21 2008

I just read Jakob Nielsen’s “Top-10 Application Design Mistakes” and thought I’d post some notes on it here and encourage everyone to read it since it is a great summary/categorization of the common issues.  Why am I qualified to comment on this list?  Well, I’ve made a lot of these mistakes in my own work and had to figure out how to avoid them the hard way!

Symfony 1.1 Installation OS X Leopard
May 16 2008

I decided to give the recent Symfony 1.1.0 RC1 a try on my macbook. Here are the steps I took to get it working.

Installing CakePHP on OS X Leopard 10.5.1
Jan 24 2008

I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard this week and wanted to provide a writeup covering everything you’ll need to know get to a good development environment ready on a fresh (clean) Leopard installation.

NOTE: Due to the subject matter contained in this post I am not providing any support for the following steps.

iWork ‘08 - My Quick Take
Aug 17 2007

I have been using iWork ‘08 since Friday as a part of their 30 day trial program and I love it.

One of the things I’ve always bemoaned about my beloved MacBook is that I have to run Crossover Mac + Office 2003 to get office suite interoperability in a nice package. iWork now features an application called “Numbers” so that I have interoperability between Word (Pages), PowerPoint (Keynote), and FINALLY Excel (Numbers).

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