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I know I shouldn’t be picking up another book while there are still several on my reading list, one I’m still half way through, and branching into a completely new arena at work. The upgrades to the MBP made me consider why I do all my development through the virtual machine and don’t do anything natively. This doesn’t count the time I’ve spent tooling around with another language. Yet another book started, but never finished.

I have no ambitions on reading this right away, but hope to get to it soon, if only in a diminished capacity. There is still the matter of finishing the last book I started.

While at the bookstore looking for something that might help with the new arena, I noticed a book that I couldn’t help but picking up and laugh. Behind it was this book, the only OS X programming book in the whole store. It must have been placed there as joke. 

Today, I was amazed yet again by the flexibility of Mac OS X. I was transitioning the color scheme from my text editor to the syntax highlighter for the blog and needed to convert the RGB values to Hex. The first couple I did manually, but realized there must be a utility out there that would do that for me. I found this nice little Hex Color picker.

What really amazed me was how easily extensible the Mac system color was. I dropped the plugin file in a folder, restarted my text editor and it was there. No installer. No registry settings. Pretty amazing.