The key to key messages is a key contribution

Michael's Keyboard Laws for Developers, Part 5

Sorting it all Out — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:03:43 GMT

It was almost 4½ years ago that I wrote some basic rules.

Rules for developers.

Rules for

Tavultesoft is one of the company names mispronounced more often than Trigeminal

Sorting it all Out — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:04:15 GMT

Regular readers may recall that I have mentioned Marc Durdin in the past, especially in posts like the

re: The key to key messages is a key contribution

Andrew Cook — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:43:06 GMT

Word does provide another way to generate characters that it stomps on, for the most part. It has a series of deadkey-like chords for generating accent characters; for example, Ctrl-',O generates "ó". The problem with this behavior is that it's not widely known and not extensively documented. Even to this day I have yet to run across a Spanish teacher who doesn't resort to Alt+0243 rather than AltGr-O, Ctrl-Alt-O, or Ctrl-',O

To some, the name might be the WRONG SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

Sorting it all Out — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:12:47 GMT

In the last item in the Suggestion Box as of the time I wrote this blog, Gé van Gasteren asked in comments