Category: Development

Development / iOS / Mac / Rails / Ruby / Software

May 17, 2012

How Steve Ballmer Predicted the Downfall of Mac OS X

Back in the year 2000, Steve Ballmer danced, as they say, like a Monkey Boy, chanting, “Developers! Developers! Developers!” in an infinite loop. Sweating like an offensive tackle in August two-a-days, he hopped and...

Development / iOS

May 13, 2012

Daring Fireball: iOS Low-Hanging Fruit

Daring Fireball: iOS Low-Hanging Fruit: “iOS is by no means feature-complete. But it’s getting harder to identify the low-hanging fruit — the things you just know Apple has to be working on, not just...

Development / iOS / Software

May 11, 2012

Two Skeuomorphs: A Radio and a Weight Tracker

The 2007 Transformers movie showcased three stars: Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf, and an all-new, futuristic-but-retro Chevrolet Camaro. All men drooled over Megan Fox, but the car guys moved on to slobbering over the Camaro. Built to...

Development / Java

April 18, 2012

Eclipse: Insufficient access privileges to apply this update.

I use Eclipse for all my Java development (and Mac OS X for all my development). Today, a bug with portlet deployment to Liferay required me to update my Eclipse installation. For awhile, I’d...

Development / Software

April 17, 2012

Learn to Read the Source, Luke

Learn to Read the Source, Luke: No matter what the documentation says, the source code is the ultimate truth, the best and most definitive and up-to-date documentation you’re likely to find. This will be...

Development

April 5, 2012

Developer Interview Advice from a Designer

I was chatting with one of the designers I work with about his interview experience when he was hired, and he remarked how interesting it was that much of the interview focus was on...

Development / Java

April 3, 2012

Debugging Through Google is Rotting My Brain

A couple of weeks ago I built a National Provider Identifier (NPI) lookup app as a proof of concept for the Vaadin portlet stuff we’re doing. For the search portion, it used a publicly-available, for-pay...

iOS / Software

March 12, 2012

Check out my site later–I’ll remind you!

The creator of Faraday, the new calendar app for iPhone, posted about lessons learned from developing and publishing the app. It’s a good read, worthy of your time. I’m not in the market for...

Development / Mac / Software

March 9, 2012

Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys

Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys: When Bill Joycreated the vi text editor he used the ADM-3A terminal, which had the arrows on hjkl keys, so naturally he reused...

iOS

March 8, 2012

‘New Apple iPad Does Little to Fend Off Rivals’ Advance’

‘New Apple iPad Does Little to Fend Off Rivals’ Advance’: Even Research In Motion Ltd.’s much maligned BlackBerry PlayBook has seen some recent success after several discounts and promotions. (Via Daring Fireball) Seriously? They’re...