I read various live blogs during the Mac World event today. It was interesting to see servers melt and the strategies people used to cope. A busy day in the Apple universe.
I just want to point out that the Mac mini comes with Apache and PHP pre-installed.
If you want, compiling a [...]
Mac Mini and PHP
January 11th, 2005Installing Web Applications
November 24th, 2004Mac OS X has made an art of the process of installing an application on the desktop. For a properly packaged application, the process is:
Download.
Locate the application icon in your download directory and optionally move it to another location.
Double click on the application icon to run.
This is the essence of what apple calls Drag [...]
Watchng my Grandmother use Software
October 27th, 2004I just got back from helping my grandmother with her computer. We got her an iMac and she uses Apple’s Mail program pretty effectively. Watching her use Mail is a real education in software usability. I’ve written before about some problems she had with mail. Apple has pretty much fixed every [...]
GUI Patent War Brewing
May 14th, 2004Apple is going mad on UI patents while Microsoft assembles hefty patent Arsenal.
Is this a patent arms race? I am not a fan of UI patents.