Old developers are wary of frameworks and assume something about them will end up biting them in the end; they are wary of using features they haven’t created. Young developers assume that frameworks and tools work, use them without hesitation, and are surprised when things go wrong. The truth, as usual, rests somewhere in between.
January, 2011
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This is a little insane; 56° to 6° in 2 days?
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Confession #94: Now Sellng on the Web: You – great stuff from Dave. BlackBerry 6 Now Officially Available For Verizon BlackBerry Bold 9650 Curve 3G 9330 Users – the main feature is a webkit browser. How Lack of Common Sense Costs Businesses Thousands – smart people find lessons everywhere, and apply them. Interview: Marco Arment…
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There are two essential steps for productive bookmarking. Remember to bookmark the site/page before you leave it. Remember to look in your bookmarks next time you want to find it. Failure to follow either of these, and you have a failed system. It’s a commitment.
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I don’t get this commercial. Regardless of service quality/speed/etc., the way it’s presented doesn’t make sense. Wouldn’t it be more effective if the rest of the group (all using AT&T) got the email quickly, then one remaining person got the email later? Isn’t the incentive to avoid being left out? Getting the email first and…
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Should I be offended that my mail filters flagged this as “obvious SPAM”? I looked at your picture and im seriously wanting to know more about you is it possible? About me if you want to know i just like honest people and i am a very loving girl
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I registered for SxSW (Interactive) last fall to get the early bird pricing. Fortunately, Shane’s panel was selected and now I have a comp’ed pass for the event. If anyone would like to buy my Interactive pass, I’m happy to let it go for the price I paid ($450) rather than the $675 that it…
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WordPress HelpCenter will be ceasing operations on February 28th. Between now and then we will be working with existing customers to wrap up all of our committed projects, but we will not be taking on any new projects. For customers that purchased WPHC support for the Carrington Business theme, we have created a special premium…
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I guess this is a pet peeve of mine, but why don’t any of the major browsers open a requested URL in the frontmost tab if that tab is empty (about:blank)? Camino got this right years ago, but Firefox, Safari and Chrome still open up a new tab next to the empty one. I can’t…
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Managing Nerds – I had a hard time reading this because my head was bobbing so vigorously in agreement. Too many gems in here to pick just one to quote. Just go read it, this is Rands at his best. :Ni! and :help! – heh. Report: iPhone 5 will be “Completely Redesigned” – an iPhone…
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Corey mentioned it on Twitter a few weeks back: @alexkingorg it’s the whole concept of new vs unread. I knew to open mail for new mail. Unread is a meaningless number. BlackBerry, Android and Palm all have a notification system that allows the user to know when new email has arrived. The notification remains present…
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A little background: I spent the last few months with a Droid 2, just switched back to a BlackBerry and I expect to have an iPhone again pretty soon (currently sporting an iPod touch).1 My experiences across each of the platforms has shown me the strengths of each. Or put another way, it’s made it…
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As VLC for iPhone, iPad Pulled from App Store, What’s the Future for GPL Apps? mir.aculo.us JavaScript with Thomas Fuchs DOM Monster Bookmarklet – looks useful. (thanks Joseph) A Thought on Communication – interesting ideas here. Twitter for Mac, Worth the Wait? – pretty thorough review. I’m not a huge fan, but also have issues…
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In the last 5 years I’ve spent time on all 4 of the major US carriers here in Denver.1 During that time I’ve also done some traveling while carrying phones on multiple networks. If there’s one thing that I’ve learned, it’s that mobile coverage is a very dependent on location. In Denver you can’t connect…
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The Perception iPhone apps are beautiful and exhibit consistent user interface conventions while Android apps are functional, but lack elegance, polish and consistency. The Truth iPhone apps are beautiful and exhibit consistent user interface conventions while Android apps are functional, but lack elegance, polish and consistency. The false promise of Android is that any day…