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First Adium / Twitter integration thoughts in 1.4 beta 1
May 19th
It’s quite funny to see that, as I finally got some time to finish my first post on Twitter OS X desktop clients yesterday, a new one appeared the same day in the shape of Twitter support in Adium 1.4 beta 1. Well, to be fair, there already was support for Twitter in Adium but it wasn’t as widely available as a public beta. Here are some thoughts about Adium as a Twitter desktop client for OS X that I gathered as I used Adium exclusively for Twitter access yesterday.
First impressionFirst, there are some details on how this would work More >
OS X desktop Twitter clients: Twitterrific and beyond!
May 18th
I’ve had a Twitter account at the beginning of 2007 but it took me a while to really start using it. For one thing, I admit that I failed to see its potential then. Of course, it didn’t help that I didn’t know anyone with a Twitter account, thus not helping building interest… Any social application has to reach a critical mass, via positive feedback, where each new subscriber makes the whole network more valuable. I eventually got around to use it more intensively, as I started discovering usefulness to it and building a network. I do think though that the biggest More >
The joys of C++
Mar 1st
I have been working on some C++ code lately at work (among lots of other things) and to put it mildly, it’s been a frustrating experience coming from the Java world. Sure, I studied C++ in school. However, there’s a big difference between having studied a language and actually practiced it. I never really did anything more significant than school projects with the language and wasn’t really complaining about it, being pretty happy with Java. Not that Java is perfect either but that’s a different story…
There are lots of annoying things in C++. At least, things that annoy me. I’m More >
Del.icio.us user interface design
Dec 3rd
How do you approach user interface design?
Lots and lots of iterations until something feels right. Avoiding features until the interface for them is apparent. Seeing how users use the existing features to do things I didn’t expect, and then making those things easier.
Joshua Schachter, answering a question from Rands in A Del.icio.us Interview
If it doesn’t feel right, the job is not done. Until your software feels natural, until interacting with the computer just flows, without having to think about it, tweak the interface. And when you think you’re done, watch your users: nothing is more rewarding for a software developer than More >
The Ruby on Rails conspiracy
Oct 6th
Seems like there’s a conspiracy going on for me to look more closely at Ruby on Rails. It all started with Brian McCallister’s post.
Then, while looking at the Rails website, I noticed that references were made to Basecamp, which I had previously put in a corner of my mind a while ago as something to look at, being in a similar application segment than Mesquite. Basecamp was developed using Ruby on Rails. The plot was thickening…
Just recently, I got to meet Brian personally and he tried to convince Robert and I to use Rails to develop Mesquite…
