I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
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Last update for today: You can now get dsandler.org in RSS format, for use with a
headline fetcher such as NetNewsWire for
MacOS X.
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How could I have missed Daring Fireball
brand Mac punditry and curmudgeonry? For shame, Dan!
A Foam user writes:
I just wanted to thank you for the simple install of your Foam
screensaver, viz. “(drag saver here to install)”. Too often, I see
complicated installers that don’t tell me what they’re doing. Your idea
is excellent.
Credit where credit’s due: This technique (of including an alias to the
final install directory in the software download, with a name
like drag software here
) was pretty common for small
BeOS software packages. It’s only possible on operating environments
(like BeOS and MacOS X) where you really can drag software to install
it!
Despite my no-coffee rule, I tried making a latte in the cafeteria today
(free espresso service!). Overall opinion: perfectly OK, but not great.
The worst part was the espresso beans themselves, which were burnt; this
is to be expected, since we get our beans from char*bucks.
BeOS icons seem to be the most stolen OS icons
ever. Now it appears that OmniWeb has burgled
the NetPositive icon (Net+ was the BeOS built-in web browser).