Recent Blog Entries

May 7 2008

Auditing User Experience with Documentation

End-user documentation has always been a thorn for many developers. We’d much rather be writing working software than explaining how that software works. It is especially difficult working in an agile environment where things change so quickly that writing extensive end-user documentation just slows down application development.

Apr 5 2008

Configuring Sphinx on OS X Leopard

I ran into a few small errors when installing Sphinx on my Mac Book Pro. I’ll share my install instructions along with a couple troubleshooting tips for others that may have the same problems.

Apr 5 2008

Syncing to Time Capsule from Terminal

I got really excited about the Apple Time Capsule when it was released. I had two 500GB duplicate external hard drives chained off of my Mac Book Pro to backup my rather large collection of media. I typically use rsync to copy files to the drives and keep them in sync.