A nice writeup of using BibDesk with Subversion: < p>BibDesk, BibTeX and Subversion – An academic’s necessity: I decided I’d choose based on 1) open formats, 2) documentation, and an 3) open development model (open source). After looking through RefWorks, vanilla BibTeX files, ProCite, EndNote, Reference Manager (the application) and BibDesk, I chose BibDesk.

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This is really cool: Fran Allen, a founder of the field of program optimization and compiler analysis, will be the first woman to receive the Turing Award. More info, including a description of her accomplishments, is at the ACM press release.

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If you use BibDesk, I want to hear how you use it – what features you use most, and how you have it set up. I’ve added a page to the BibDesk wiki to share User Screenshots – add a section there about what you do with BibDesk, and share your experiences. I added my [...]

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Daniel Jalkut’s Red Sweater acquires MarsEdit. Congratulations, Daniel, and good luck! I think this is great news for MarsEdit users. I’m looking forward to seeing what he does with it.

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If you only use X11 for XTerm, it might seem like the handling of the clipboard in Apple’s X11.app is broken. You can select text and paste it with a click of the middle mouse button (opt-click on my Powerbook), and that works when pasting into other X apps, but it doesn’t change the Mac [...]

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A couple days ago, Daniel Jalkut wrote a quick note wondering if the future is writing native desktop apps in languages like Python or Ruby, dropping down into C/Obj-C only for performance reasons. It’s been an interesting thread since then, in comments and other posts. Notably, today Bill Bumgarner responded with a long and informative [...]

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I usually like the link selection I get from the Joel Reddit, which usually has good software-related essays at the top. It seems to avoid links to uninformed rants about consumer electronics or industry politics, for which I have no use. I’d like a social links site for software professionals on the Mac – does [...]

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