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Accepting responsibility for bugs
When I make a mistake, I take full responsibility for the issue. While some people think I never make mistakes, I am human. The same goes for bugs in my software; software will never be perfect and I make my share of mistakes. I acknowledge these mistakes in my release notes where I say "Fixed". If it wasn't broken, then how could I fix it?
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ScreenSteps, cool idea, but not quite a Mac app
On Friday I stumbled across ScreenSteps, a program for doing documentation by quickly and easily capturing screen shots. While I no longer do documentation for my own software, I am starting to do some internal documentation for work on things like connecting to our VPN, setting up connecting to a file server, etc. I put together one "lesson" in maybe 15 minutes and was able to stick it on our internal web site. One thing that bothered me was that there were some dialogs that didn't look like Mac dialogs like the following (The icon looks funny and it should have been a sheet):
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NekFit, hokey but useful
At Macworld, I saw an iPod Nano case called nekfit. I have been running with my iPod Nano using an armband, but the wires always got in the way, so I was intrigued by nekfit. When I stopped by their booth, the marketing guy said if I didn't like it, give him a call and he'd make it right. So, I went ahead and ordered one. I received it a few weeks back and must say that it looked like something that was slapped together in a garage. If you take a pair of sunglasses, but them on backwards around your neck and attach an iPod to it, that's what the nekfit looks like.
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iWeb, the hidden gem?
I bought iLife '09 and installed it, but all I've had time to do is launch iPhoto a few times and play with the facial recognition which is pretty cool. The other night I was watching CNET's weekly TiVo videocast and they reviewed or at least introduced iLife '09 (which is kind of surprising as they seem to not like Macs). One of the things that was mentioned is that iWeb '09 now has the ability to upload to FTP. Hmmm...I only played with iWeb a few times way back when, but ignored it as I don't have a .Mac/MobileMe account. I fired up iWeb '09 and immediately looked for the FTP export. Not only did I find it, I found that it also did SFTP (Secure FTP, which is FTP over SSH). To top off that, it lets you specify the SSH port (I changed the port on my server from the standard 22 to another port to reduce the number of attempts to get in; while people we're getting in, it bogged down the system denying the requests). Very, very cool. I played a little more with iWeb and am quite impressed; I like the ability to place pictures wherever as it seems more flexible than anything else I've used. Publishing worked well and this might be my new web tool of choice (for the little web work I do).