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Linked List: January 2, 2006

Monday, 2 January 2006

Jens Alfke: Sweet Fifteen ★: Jens Alfke, who’s worked on everything from AppleScript to iChat to Safari’s RSS reader (and who wrote the original Stickies app) is celebrating his 15th anniversary working at Apple:

I’d say “it doesn’t seem like that long”, only it does! Things have changed so much. When I started, on January 2nd 1991, there was no Apple campus. I was in De Anza Six, a building that later became Taligent and then IBM, and now sits empty, apparently awaiting demolition. My first machine was a Mac IIfx, a wicked-fast 33MHz 68030 with 8MB of RAM. (I bought my own for home, at a crazily-discounted price of $1800.) The very first piece of code I wrote at Apple, a utility called AEBuild, still survives to this day as part of the AppleEvent framework in OS X.
Suck.com Back in Action ★: No longer pointing to a porno directory; still no word on how last week’s fiasco happened.
FastScripts Lite ★: Speaking of Daniel Jalkut, he just released FastScripts Lite, a freeware version of his nifty FastScripts system-wide scripts menu utility, both versions of which offer much more functionality than the scripts menu that ships with Mac OS X.
Daniel Jalkut on Verizon’s Shitty Yahoo Installer ★: Great write-up and analysis of a truly bad installer. Jalkut’s is turning into one of my very favorite Mac weblogs.
Guy Kawasaki’s New Weblog ★: “Let the Good Times Roll”, a new weblog by the ever-readable Guy Kawasaki.
Blech on Mount Manager ★: Blech at 2lmc Spool:

I’m afraid this is going to be one of those spool entries where I give some poor unsuspecting Mac developer a good kicking. Just thought I’d warn you in advance.