Mike’s Lookout – SPDY of the Future Might Blow Your Mind Today
Despite its coolness, there is an aspect of SPDY that doesn’t get much press yet (because nobody is doing it). Kudos for Amazon’s Kindle Fire for inspiring me to write about it. I spent a fair amount...
View Articleinessential.com – Fantastical and language detection
I like this. The best Mac developers have been famous for taking the extra steps. Most people won’t need this — but those who do it will delight.via inessential.com – Fantastical and language...
View ArticleMichael Tsai – PDFpen and iCloud
It’s no longer possible to write a single app that takes advantage of the full range of Mac OS X features. Some APIs only work inside the Mac App Store. Others only work outside it. Presumably, this...
View ArticleApple Outsider – Hollywood Still Hates You
Hollywood continues to completely ignore that lesson. It continues to punish the people who play by the rules with an insufferable customer experience. This is the sole reason piracy is up and profits...
View ArticleIncubaid Research – Rediscovering the RSync Algorithm
Don’t walk the folder and ‘rsync’ each file you encounter. A small calculation will show you how bad it really is.Suppose you have 20000 files, each 1KB. Suppose 1 rsync costs you about 0.1s (reading...
View ArticleBackups, Automated and Off Site
One of the biggest issues in running a server1 is making sure if everything disappears you can be up and running as quickly as possible. So how do I do it?Simple answer is I use a cron job that runs...
View ArticleMailinator™ Blog – How Mailinator compresses email by 90%
Given the title of this article, the first thing that should pop into your mind is probably — “well, use a compression algorithm — right?”.Right! Well, yes, well, not exactly. Read on.via Mailinator™...
View ArticleThe Word of Notch – On Patents
But there is no way in hell you can convince me that it’s beneficial for society to not share ideas. Ideas are free. They improve on old things, make them better, and this results in all of society...
View ArticleDataGenetics – The Two Egg Problem
You are given two eggs, and access to a 100-storey building. Both eggs are identical. The aim is to find out the highest floor from which an egg will not break when dropped out of a window from that...
View ArticleApp Cubby Blog – The Sparrow Problem
Given the incredible progress and innovation we’ve seen in mobile apps over the past few years, I’m not sure we’re any worse off at a macro-economic level, but things have definitely changed and...
View ArticleUsers’ Pagination Preferences and ‘View All’
When providing a choice of display options, the computer should almost always respect the user’s stated preference and employ it as the default the next time around. I am amazed at how many sites and...
View ArticleHow To Make Your Open Source Project Really Awesome
If you plan on releasing a library as open source, please make sure it has Clear dependency/installation instructions At least one brief documentation guide A change log and tags in the repo Some...
View ArticleIdeal Column Width For Paragraphs Online
Are there any type of guidelines to help me size the width of paragraphs on the screen? I want to take into consideration: Major web font faces (i.e. Arial, Verdana, Georgia, Times) A range font sizes...
View ArticleNetflix, Reed Hastings Survive Missteps to Join Silicon Valley’s Elite
On a normal weeknight, Netflix (NFLX) accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That’s more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com (AMZN), HBO Go, iTunes, and...
View ArticleTips And Tricks For Testing WordPress Themes
Whether you offer free or premium themes, testing should be a major part of your development process. By planning in advance, you can foster a development environment that deters some bugs by design...
View ArticleJSON Generator
All we ever faced the problem of lack of information in our app. All interfaces seem lifeless and empty. Debugging with no data is also not simple. I think that each of us has at least once in their...
View ArticleMaking Google’s CalDAV And CardDAV APIs Available For Everyone
In March we announced that CalDAV, an open standard for accessing calendar data across the web, would become a partner-only API because it appeared that almost all the API usage was driven by a few...
View ArticleRequiem for a Back Button
If you ask me, that back button, the one that has been with us since the iPhone debuted, was the best back button design of all time. Most back buttons, like the ones in desktop browsers, are just an...
View ArticleHow To Be A Program Manager
Having a good program manager is one of the secret formulas to making really great software. And you probably don’t have one on your team, because most teams don’t. Spolsky may not be writing as often...
View ArticleCage Match — EmberJS vs. Angular
This is a battle between EmberJS and Angular. Tom Dale (project lead for EmberJS) vs Rob Conery (angular). The fight is hosted by Peter Cooper. You don’t want to miss this! An interesting hour showing...
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