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		<title>Snakes on Demand: How to write a Python Launchd Agent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I share what I've learned about writing a Launchd agent that is mostly written in Python. This includes a link to a sample project hosted on bitbucket.]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-mccracken.net/2010/03/snakes-on-demand-how-to-write-a-python-launchd-agent/</link>
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		<title>How BibDesk generates Apple Help and a web manual</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is something that had been on my old blog in 2006 and went away, so I&#8217;m reposting something I wrote to the macsb list a few years ago:

For the BibDesk open source project, we wanted to have legit in-app
apple help, as well as a web page (and PDF), without maintaining
separate sources, since we were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-mccracken.net/2010/02/how-bibdesk-generates-apple-help-and-a-web-manual/</link>
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		<title>Tinkering in the Sideshow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I chime in on the reactions to the iPad as a new wave of pleasantly functional but closed computing.]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-mccracken.net/2010/02/tinkering-in-the-sideshow/</link>
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		<title>App History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just saw Brent&#8217;s post from a couple weeks ago about an App History App &#8211; I think that&#8217;d be really cool. I especially like the screen shot idea, since I love seeing posts from a developer showing what an app looked like along the progression. It&#8217;s too easy to forget to document that kind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-mccracken.net/2009/11/app-history/</link>
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		<title>Measuring PDFs with Skim</title>
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I love it when I can guess how to do something new in a program.
Skim just did this for me &#8211; I needed to figure out how big the rectangle of text in a paper I&#8217;m working on is, in inches. I looked for rulers, and then decided I&#8217;d just see if I get any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-mccracken.net/2009/11/measuring-pdfs-with-skim/</link>
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		<title>If your childhood memories include an SG&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If your childhood memories include an SGI Indy set up underneath the coat rack downstairs, maybe you&#8217;ll get the same time-traveling wonder out of the Electropaint Screensaver. I found a Universal Build of ElectropaintOSX at vonBelow.com, and it&#8217;s just how I remembered. There&#8217;s a picture there, but you have to see it in motion. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-mccracken.net/2009/11/if-your-childhood-memories-include-an-sg/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;d like to see a community-run version&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to see a community-run version of the Apple Design Awards.

Anyone could nominate an app, and the developer community would vote on who wins, in just a few categories.

I&#8217;m thinking the categories could be a little more user-centric than Apple&#8217;s. For instance, I don&#8217;t really care about best adoption of OS X technologies, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-mccracken.net/2009/10/id-like-to-see-a-community-run-version/</link>
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		<title>Email Death Link Dump</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent Wall Street Journal article noted (pay link) the rise of alternatives to email. The article itself is balanced and mentions that new ways of communicating are likely to just add to how much time we spend with this stuff, not replace email and cure its problems. Whether that&#8217;s good or bad depends on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-mccracken.net/2009/10/email-death-link-dump/</link>
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		<title>Etiquette for the resend ping.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Merlin Mann&#8217;s flickr stream, I noticed the book &#8220;Time Management for System Administrators&#8221; hiding under there, and went over to the O&#8217;Reilly site to take a look &#8211; there&#8217;s a full google preview of the book, and it has a chapter with some good advice about handling email.

I&#8217;ll highlight the one piece of advice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-mccracken.net/2009/10/etiquette-for-the-resend-ping/</link>
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		<title>Better SVN workflow in Emacs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve found a way to get the 3-column window layout with vc-dir, vc-diff and vc-log I showed in my previous post about SVN workflow in Emacs by default, without the manual setup I was complaining about.

(Update: It looks like this customization only exists in Emacs 23.)

The key is that vc-mode uses a standard function, pop-to-buffer, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://michael-mccracken.net/2009/09/better-svn-workflow-in-emacs/</link>
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