Great time to be a developer: I am in awe of the free tools available to software developers today. It is amazing how fast, and cheaply, you can turn an idea into productive code. I was so pumped by a recent experience, I decided to share. (Via Los Techies) …
Read more →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 source software, though, for legal (if not technical) …
Read more →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 run on the Mac. So we did that – and customers loved it. Well, that isn’t exactly …
Read more →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. I probably still won’t change, though. I prefer the predictability of …
Read more →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 build software. We’ve got to stop dismissing people as …
Read more →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 apps, the less need they have to actually pay for apps. …
Read more →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 the cloud hinges on a fragile layer of trust. We poked that …
Read more →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 our app without a fast connection was eye-opening and humbling. I spent …
Read more →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 erratic. The net effect is …
Read more →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 Amazon. The premise of the book is to build a single app throughout the book, …
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