The photos are mostly dated, the place is given, and they are consistently tagged with keywords. I’ve now digitised all my negatives from the past 20 years and have put all my favorite photos, drawn from both the scanned negatives and my more recent digital photos, on a photo album site. I’ve taken a lot of photographs that I like, almost exclusively nature images, but have only recently thought of putting a few on the Web. Recently, I’ve started posting miscellaneous thoughts and technical musings through a sort of non-blog, just as a way of remembering things and blowing off a little steam. I also do use Google Plus occasionally, particularly when I’m working on a book, so that readers can follow my progress. I have a Twitter account but I don’t post anything much except for notices about my books. My thoughts are private! Besides, I’m not about to commit a half-baked fleeting thought to print, not even ephemeral Web print. I am constitutionally opposed to tweeting, blogging, etc. Seen on : “I’ve gotten much more help from Matt Neuburg than I could ever return.” Whoever the author is, Adobe Photoshop really needs them to write their manuals.” (That author would be me.) It was simple, easy to understand, with a minimum of jargon, and a surprising sense of humor. But, I very quickly realized that it had been written so much better than any software manual I have ever read. “Better than any software manual I have ever read.”įrom an email sent to MacSpeech: “Initially, the PDF instruction manual appeared intimidating. Your stuff and it doesn’t just work, it rocks.” Top maintenance and troubleshooting toolsĭan Frakes: “MemoryStick 1.5 (free Matt Neuburg) lets you know if you’re running short on RAM or if you’ve got too many apps open, by displaying your Mac’s memory allocation.”Įmail from a satisfied downloader: “I love stuff that just works. That really explains precisely the basics linguistic concepts of the Reader email: “Your book is the only one I have come across Reading it will make you far better prepared to use AppleScript productively.” To sum up: this book is a deep, thorough exploration of all the quirks, dusty corners, and skeleton-filled closets of AppleScript. More to the point, it’s a deep and thorough job of documenting the actuality of AppleScript: what syntax works, what the tricks and traps are, and what to avoid… He looks into AppleScript’s baroque scoping rules and its inconsistent rules for implicit coercion of types.Īll of Part II is meat and drink to a fan of programming languages, and I read it through like a good novel. has taken the time to test out every corner case and exception of the language, and he lays them all bare. “I don’t know how Matt Neuburg does it differently from other authors, but when I read his books on programming, I just understand the topics at a whole new level of comprehension.”ĭavid Cortesi, on : “The first AppleScript book that tells the deep truth… Affrus’s help isn’t just good when compared against the deplorable state of your average help book - it’s just plain great by any standard.” (And every question I’ve ever had about Affrus is answered in the help documentation.) But if you want to read the documentation linearly, from beginning to end, it’s easy to do that too. If you have a specific question, it is easy to find the answer and jump to it directly. It is cross-referenced and cross-linked out the ying-yang. It’s that it truly takes advantage of the nature of hypertext. It’s not just that it’s well-written, detailed, accurate, and complete. “ is quite simply the finest software documentation I have every encountered. How do we know who these people are? You tell us! Once a year, we open up voting to you, the Macintosh community.”īest technical writer John Gruber: “I consider the best technical writer in the business…” “The MacTech 25 honors the most influential people in the Macintosh community.
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