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 the stuff you hope they are.” Good post by John Gruber that …
Read more →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 hearken the muscle cars from …
Read more →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 seen (and ignored) an error when I ran Eclipse’s Check For Updates: …
Read more →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 true forever, so the sooner you come to terms with this, …
Read more →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 how his personality and work patterns would fit with the team, and less on his …
Read more →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 REST service to search for a provider’s NPI. Our …
Read more →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 another calendar app for my iPhone–I have the built-in Calendar …
Read more →I’m calling it: Ubuntu is finally ready for the world.: Following instructions from Linux geeks feels like trying to read Charles Dickens while having a stroke (Via Hacker News) Perhaps a bit hyperbolic, but great line!
Read more →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 the same keys. And that’s the whole story! (Via Hacker News) Even cooler is where …
Read more →Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts ‘cloud’ in your house: Space Monkey uses storage devices located at its users’ premises, not in data centers paid for by the company. When you sign up for Space Monkey, you get a physical networked hard disk with 1TB of storage …
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