Writing XHTML on Mac OS X

I’m using Textmate on a daily basis for editing XHTML because of its rich and intelligent auto-completion features. Since I started using it I wrote twice as much code (at least) with a lot less actual typing. For those who wonder »how?« there is a screen cast online showing some of the many features of […]

Web 2.0? – more like Web 1.0 RC2!?

Now its 2006, Google Maps and Google Mail are interesting like cold coffee but the hype these projects started is still going on. Everyday there are new »Web 2.0« apps popping up. None of them is doing something really new, right now they are busy combining all of the early »Web 2.0« apps like flickr, […]

Mac OS X on Intel

Yeah I know, this is a little late but I just browsed through the arstechnica website and found a very old article which reviewed the second »Developer Release of Mac OS X (DP2)«. The Review itself is really interesting but what struck me was the Epilogue which says on Tuesday, December 14, 1999: »The OpenStep […]

Preparing Photos for the Web

This post is about the weird problems that can occur when you try to publish your photos on a website. Everything looks fine in your Photoshop but when you look at the pictures with your web-browser it looks almost completely different. Of course it is still the same picture with the same objects on it […]

Website Editing on OS X

I started building and designing websites in the mid nineties when I got my first computer. Back than there were only very basic WYSIWYG editors available and you were better off knowing how to actually write HTML in an text-editor of your choice. When Dreamweaver came out I walked away from writing HTML because the […]