Jakub Pawlowicz – Thoughts on life

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• Jakub Pawlowicz 5:38 pm on July 30, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: apple (7), human interface guidelines, macos x, undo   

  Warning does not mean undo 

  There’s a really interesting article recently posted on A List Apart called “Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo”. Generally speaking it is about overuse of warnings and not allowing users to undo the operations.
  It is (as always?) already clearly stated in the Apple Human Interface Guidelines that the only reason to display a warning is an unrecoverable or a very long operation. That simply implies the fact that undo should be available to most of the system commands. As always Apple was first, but what have been obvious in the desktop space (MacOS X at least) hadn’t been so in the web space till Web 2.0 arrived.

  If you are interested go ahead and check the ALA article. If you want more, then Apple HIG site covers even more than needed.

   

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• Jakub Pawlowicz 6:09 pm on February 14, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Disco, FMPP, macos x, SQLGrinder, TextMate   

  A small update 

  Recently, I’ve been so busy that I even didn’t have time to post something there. Here’s what I’ve been playing with (and discovered) in the last 2 weeks.

  • TextMate – now my programmers’ editor of choice.
  • MacGourmet and SQLGrinder – two nice apps from Advenio for managing recepies and SQL data respectively.
  • Cha-Ching – money manager
  • Merlin2 – project management tool – looks very interesting, but unfortunately I don’t have a chance to use it
  • FMPP (FreeMarker PreProcessor) – an open source, text file preprocessor – I’ve been using it for preprocessing HTML files directly from TextMate
  • Disco – that one is very cool burning utility for MacOS X. It’s not because I don’t like burning discs with Finder, but because it makes it in so cool and easy way. And that smoke makes my colegues really angry… He, he, he…

   

• Jakub Pawlowicz 6:25 pm on January 2, 2007 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: IE (2), macos x, Parallels, Windows XP (2)   

  Parallels rocks 

  That’s a hot topic recently in the Apple world. Parallels made installing virtualized OSes really easy and fast. Thanks to it I’ve already played with Gentoo, Fedora, Ubuntu, Windows 98 and Windows XP on my MacBook Pro. Now I can install Ubuntu while reading installation manual in Safari, playing songs with iTunes and chatting with iChat at the same time.
  Even better I can install two OSes simultaneously. I can test my software under Linux without having second box, share my network connection with it, boot or install it directly from CD image, and do tons of other things. If it won’t be enough, there something really, really cool left out there…

  Parallels + Windows XP

  That’s the main reason Mac community loves Parallels. Tight integration with Windows makes life a lot easier for some people – like for those using Windows-only apps, testing websites in bull-crap IE or playing Solitaire ;-)).
  It’s now even cooler as some time ago Parallels team published a beta of the new Parallels Desktop software which offers a Coherence mode which (almost) completely hides Windows and allows running Mac apps and windows apps side-by-side and launching Windows apps directly from the dock!

  If that wouldn’t be enough recently I’ve discovered a program which allows me to install multiple IEs on one Windows installation. So good bye Windows 98 and multiple XP instances! Now I have Windows XP with IE 5.5, 6.0 and 7.0 installed, all running alongside each other. That rocks!!!

  My next wish would be to let Parallels tell me some jokes, but that’s probably too much…