Friday, December 12, 2003

Hiring Programmers
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A parody (kinda) of this eacanada.com billboard (thanks kasia!)

Using Perl would have made it more obscure to the non-technical, but I try to stay away from Perl.




How to make really good bug reports

Brent Simmons' take on what makes a good bug report [inessential.com]

Also a link to a Joel Spolsky article on bug reports




Quit the Apple Installer to allow multiple installs

Multiple installs without rebooting [Mac OS X Hints]

This sounds scary, as your system isn't in the most stable state after you've installed software. But, I guess Software Update installs multiple things per pass, so it can't be that bad.




Change Firebird useragent (or anything) from browser

MacOSXHints: using about:config in Mozilla Firebird to change settings [Mac OS X Hints]

It specifically talks about the useragent string, but there are other attributes you can modify through this interface




Old Habits

John Gruber writes an AppleScript to reset OS X's New Folder keyboard shortcut to Cmd-N [Daring Fireball]

Like Gruber, I have two mental pathways - one that says Cmd-N creates a new folder, and one that says Cmd-N creates a new finder window.

Although I guess Create New Finder Window makes sense - Cmd-N creates a new document in every other app, why shouldn't it create a new window in the Finder?