First of all I have to say that I am not a big fun of Spotlight. It looks to me nothing more that a textbox where to find items in the system, with an horrible and unusable list of results. To find and system items in a fast way I use launchbar, which I believe is a power and well designed tool.

Once again, Mathew and Tim showed me how wrong I was, explaining very well that behind Spotlight there is a lot more power using a sort of query language, that lets you filter by the existing, created and automated metadata that lives inside our system items, and how to take advantage of it to make it work in our favor without, once again, taking your hands out of the keyboard.

This post belongs to a series about Mac OS X Productivity Tips for Developers. Next post will be about Viewing with Quicklook and Moving with Finder, two short chapters that I am going to review together.

Package Management is one of those thing you never pay attention to until the moment you really need them because you need that utility or that others and there is no other way to obtain them. I’ve been using package managers since meany years but, to be fair, I never had a good reason to use one or another. In this chapter you get information about a couple package managers and also some tips on how to use them and why. It is all focused form the perspective of the terminal usage as it is the rule since now and in a very understandable and wasy to follow way, it is another pearl in the course.

This post belongs to a series about Mac OS X Productivity Tips for Developers. Next post will be about Searching with Spotlight.

The title of this video does not give you a clue about what’s inside. This chapter is all about mark up languages to write documents from README to complete books. To be fair I have never gone beyond Markdown and Multimarkdown, and in the past I had some problems when writing a book with those formats that lead me to choose visual editors that made me lose that plus in portability of the documents. Now, after seing the video, I’d choose another option that would have change things a lot. Again, and in the same line of the other chapters, it’s a great value video, don’t lose it.

This post belongs to a series about Mac OS X Productivity Tips for Developers. Next post will be about Package Management.