Bespoke — Custom Tailoring Software
Bespoke: Can you imagine a future where, for a price, a key software tool that you rely on can be bespoke? (Via patrickrhone / journal) Interesting idea–one that would practically be limited to open...
Grailbox Blog
Dr. StrangeUnix Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mac
Dr. StrangeUnix Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mac: But what the fact that “It’s just UNIX now” got us was the ability to create an X11 application that would...
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....
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,...