Tag Archives: Software Development

Perceived complexity

Matt Gammell of  Instinctive Code on a developer’s perception of their software’s complexity.

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OpinionSpy

The Mac Security Blog: Applications that Install OpinionSpy. Mac spyware. Not anything you’re likely to run into.

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Matt Gemmell: iPad VGA output

Matt Gemmell (author various open source libraries, including Twitter engine used in Twitterrific) on iPad VGA output.

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Benchmarking the iPad

Craig Hockenberry (Twitterrific) benchmarks the iPad. The speed just blows away the original iPhone.

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Adobe and Flash vs. Apple and iPhone

Mike Chambers, in a more rational posting than the usual from Adobe employees. But I have a comments on it anyway: They want to tie developers down to their platform, and restrict their options to make it difficult for developers … Continue reading

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A one day project

I started work today on an iPhone project with a friend. I figured it would take only a day to get to a reasonable 1.0. I’ve only put in about a half day on it so far, but at this … Continue reading

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Apple's Mistake

Paul Graham (Wikipedia article) on Apple's Mistake, with a great comparison: What would happen if every update to Mac OS X had to go through an opaque, fickle intermediary?

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Joe Hewitt

Joe Hewitt, creator of the iPhone Facebook application and Three20 framework, has moved back to web development. A blog post explains, placing on Apple’s App Store process without using so many words. But he makes an observation on how little … Continue reading

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Loren Brichter on Tweetie reload

Joshua Kaufman interviews Loren Brichter on Tweetie’s reload gesture. A good, non-technical read on finding the right way to present a feature, adding a custom gesture, and providing feedback.

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Learning a new programming language

It took me a while to learn Objective-C. I started at the most basic level, wondering at the language. What are these brackets? What’s with the @ signs? What’s the difference between a – and a +? These aren’t hard … Continue reading

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