Jun
30
Blessings Upon the Mysterious Ways of Apple: Or,
Filed Under Books | Comments Off
Maybe Steve Jobs is the boss of me.
As my faithful readers (all six of ‘em!) know, I’ve been somewhat distressed over Apple’s decision to remove Wiley books from all Apple stores. Mostly, I’ve been distressed because the book The Spouse, Michael Cohen, wrote with his brother Dennis Cohen, The Mac Xcode 2 Book came out [...]
Jun
28
Xcode 2 Blog
Filed Under Books | Comments Off
The Spouse, also known as Michael E. Cohen, has started a new blog IDE of the Tiger. Michael’s been writing code since the days of punch cards, and using Macs since they were Lisas. I suspect, given his professional interests in multimedia, QuickTime, and instructional software, that there will be some overlap between our blogs. [...]
Jun
27
The Mac Xcode 2 Book Web Site
Filed Under Books | Comments Off
You can now read All About Dennis and Michael Cohen’s The Mac Xcode 2 Book here. Show Steve Jobs he’s not the boss of you, and buy a copy.
var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, digg, delicious, google, facebook, reddit, more’;
Jun
26
On Grading and Spreadsheets
Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off
I freely confess that numbers and I do not get along as well as, say, letters and I get along. I started using a spreadsheet for grading calculations very early on in my teaching. In a graduate pedagogy class I noticed a lot of concern about the numeric and mathematical aspects of grading. For instance, [...]
Jun
23
Unix Frivolities and The Language of Flowers
Filed Under Uncategorized | Comments Off
We all know Unix, even with the very user-friendly OS X GUI, is the realm of the serious user, especially when it comes to using Terminal, the OS X application for using a command line interface. But thank goodness that along with all the Unixy goodness OS X inherited from BSD, we also got the [...]