Why tabs are clearly superior | Lea Verou
Why tabs are clearly superior | Lea Verou: “If you follow me on twitter or have heard one of my talks you’ll probably know I despise spaces for indentation with a passion.” Great arguments....
Author: Rob Warner
On the Usability of Codecademy
On the Usability of Codecademy: Usability is hard because real users use our UIs and software in different and unexpected ways. (Via Zen and the Art of Ruby Programming) Required reading for people who...
App Cubby Blog – Free and Low-Cost Apps
App Cubby Blog – Free and Low-Cost Apps: “The pool of time users spend on smartphones is staggering and growing rapidly, but it is not infinite. The more time people spend with useful/entertaining free...
Trust is fragile – (37signals)
Trust is fragile – (37signals): So let’s start with first things first: We’re sorry. We made a mistake. We should have thought it through and remembered that storing your data with someone else in...
Immobile Apps
Immobile Apps: One of the most painful things we did when developing Glassboard was ban ourselves from Wi-Fi for a week. I live in an area where cell coverage is really spotty, and using...
Kindle Fire Does Not Fire the Imagination
Kindle Fire Does Not Fire the Imagination: The Kindle software itself is a lousy reading experience; the justified, un-hyphenated typography is an eyesore, the font selection is depressingly homely, and the line-spacing is visually...
Beginning OS X Lion Apps Development
The writing, editing, and reviewing are done, and Beginning OS X Lion Apps Development is set to go to press. The publication date is listed as November 9 on both the Apress site and...
“An Introduction to MapReduce” by Pete Warden; O’Reilly Media
Founder of OpenHeatMap Pete Warden provides a simple introduction to MapReduce, the Google-created framework for examining large datasets. This video tutorial includes four videos: an intro to the topic, writing your first MapReduce job,...
Automator for the Web: ifttt
A new web service, If This Then That (ifttt), allows you to wire web triggers to web actions. Go check it out. I just wired this blog to Twitter: anytime I blog something (the...
My Review of Larry Bird
Originally submitted at Fathead Larry Bird NBA Legend. Real.Big. Fathead Wall Graphic Larry Bird Greatest Player Ever By hoop33 from Jacksonville, FL on 9/10/2011 5out of 5 Pros: Celtic pride, Crisply detailed Best...