![]() ![]() Instead of the presumed max of 16 MC Desktop Spaces, where using more than about 5 or 6 becomes awkward, I currently have 45 Desktops, about 22 of which are in daily use. In this case, I use Mission Control a LOT. Just like those two historical examples, what I’m working on now is building a tool to smooth my own workflow to do things that I’ve been unable to find out there. I’m still learning when and how to use a Class is even though I took a course in Lambda Calculus in college. I have some experience with programming projects.īut that JavaScript and a little bit of Ruby for SketchUp is basically the limit of my Object Oriented programming. I showed it to Engineering and they incorporated some of my idea into Acrobat, but they had an overly simplified, canned list of statuses rather than letting the user define their own. When I worked at Adobe where we were required to “eat our own dogfood” and do all documentation review using PDFs, I wrote my own tools to tag other people’s PDF comments in the markups with my working status for their comments: To Do, Working, Completed, Postpone, Rejected, Questions to Research, Questions to Delegate. I had a half dozen people in my publications team using that macro set on a daily basis for a couple of years. Essentially I wrote a “context switcher” in Troff. QP) but rather I could end a macro’s influence with a standard “end of scope” macro that would close out that context because that macro was redefined every time a scope macro was invoked. I was able to write macros that defined a scope and that could end, not with a separate macro for each ending as was the common practice (e.g. If you know anything about Troff, you probably know that it does not have parentheses or brackets or anything that nests the way we’re used to in modern languages. ![]() If it develops into something I can share with other people, great, but my first goal is my own use.Īs for my programming background, I have a degree in Information Science and I’m “officially” a UNIX Guru because I wrote my own Troff macro set, way back when, that even included macros that redefined other macros. ![]() I’m building a tool to help me manage how I work on my Mac. I am not trying to “learn how to program” nor am I trying to learn how to write Mac apps to sell or even give away on the App Store. It’s not a simple goal, but the goal is simplicity.Īs Pacal and other have famously said, please forgive the length of this note, I don’t really have time to make it shorter. It would help if we knew what your goal is. ![]()
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