On 11/18/05, Matt Henderson matt2@makalumedia.com wrote:
On Nov 18, 2005, at 2:29 PM, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:
I didn't know him, but further reading shows that he is a software developer at Freshly Squeezed Software... Somehow I find that very hard to believe.
Erik Barzeski, the owner of the nslog() weblog was the owner of Freshly Squeezed Software, before he sold it earlier this year. He conceived a lot of innovative stuff during that time, including the Pulp Fiction news reader, and the "magic mirror" FTP feature, which has since been copied by most of the other FTP clients.
His opinions (or more particularly his expression of those opinions) are often considered annoying by people, but in general, as a Mac OS X technologist, he's pretty well respected in the community.
Yeah. I find his tone pretty snotty at times, but I have to say I agree with most of his underlying points. I know people who really like TextMate and own it and use it all the time who find the Find/Replace dialog a bit underpowered compared to BBEdit's; or who, to paraphrase Darth Vader, find its lack of AppleScript support disturbing.
I think that it's important when one is a fan of something (as we all are of TextMate) not to adopt a knee-jerk, dismissive attitude toward criticism -- even when the criticism is gracelessly phrased.
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