Articles Posted During February 2004

regex tips

Good ONLamp article: Five Habits for Successful Regular Expressions.

It's never occurred to me to use whitespace and comments to enhance readability, and I simply wasn't aware that Perl and PHP were so flexible regarding their regex delimiters. Turns out you can use any non-alphanumeric or whitespace character. To my recollection, I've only ever seen pipes and slashes.

2004-02-25 11:13:47

enduring os x

Matthew Thomas has listed 48 of OS X's shortcomings, and I've gotta say, he's spot on - from what I can tell. (I don't use Mail.app or iChat, so can't comment there.) A goodly portion are examples of Apple's own engineers ignoring the HIG and the frustrating inconsistencies found between apps. The bottom line:

Apple's human interface has declined and continues to decline. That other current platforms, both Free and non-Free, continue to be even worse does not make this situation any more satisfying. Mac OS X is like Sir Winston Churchill's description of democracy: the worst possible system, except for all the others.

2004-02-23 14:08:51