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Brent Simmons’ Macintosh scripting weblog.
Friday, November 16, 2001
O’Reilly: Designing a Great UI the Aqua Way. “Most programmers will tell you they’d rather write algorithms all day with a dull crayon than even think of building a user interface.”
5:17:06 PM
Mac OS X Hints: Docked terminal windows and system performance. “My machine immediately became very very slow and hard to use. I managed to get a ‘top -u 10’ launched in my Terminal, and noticed that the Dock was using 70% of my CPU!”
12:18:26 PM
O’Reilly: Why Use a Command Line Instead of Windows? “Years ago, I took a class on computer user-interface design. Some of my professor’s words have stayed with me since then. One characteristic of a user-friendly system, he told us, is that it does what the user wants. In other words, the most user-friendly system isn’t necessarily the simplest one.”
10:33:15 AM
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s beta 2 release is beta 3 of MarshmallowLibrarian, a local search engine for developer documentation. A joke about ’smores ought to fit in nicely here.
9:34:39 AM
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