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Archive: December, 2002

December 2, 2002

They’d apparently rather fight than switch.

I’m not sure which is more revealing of the current state of the whole InDesign vs. XPress tug o’ war, this article over at MacCentral concerning Adobe and Quark scrimmaging for both mindshare and workflowshare, or the vociferous pissing match taking place in the MacCentral discussions. Oh yeah? Yeah!

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

December 2, 2002

Frustrating Transfer Protocol

Following a fairly common web development practice, we work with duplicated HTTP and FTP instances set up on a co-located server. One instance is our staging environment and one is the production or live environment. Today, I can’t transfer any binary files to the staging server if those files are larger than 16KB or if … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

December 2, 2002

What’s for lunch?

Why, it’s a cut of leftover herb-roasted pork, a dollop of home-made jalepeño mustard, sliced button mushrooms and Cheez Whiz® on a bagel, of course. Thanks for asking.

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.