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API Design - Matt Gemmell
cool  api  software  design  advice 
yesterday
Hacked! - Magazine - The Atlantic
google  web  security  advice 
3 days ago
Subtle Patterns | Free textures for your next web project
cool  free  graphics  texture  image 
9 days ago
Gamasutra: Chris Hildenbrand's Blog - 2D Game Art For Programmers - Part 1 [updated]
"Creating your own art work is a necessity for most independent developers."
software  graphics  advice 
9 days ago
UIKit Particle Systems in iOS 5 Tutorial | Ray Wenderlich
"with iOS 5, you can use particle systems directly in UIKit"
ios  particle  graphics  software  tutorial 
9 days ago
Coding Horror: Can Your Team Pass The Elevator Test?
"Software developers do love to code. But very few of them, in my experience, can explain why they're coding."
software  business  advice 
10 days ago
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
"code is art that does something"
web  business  advice 
10 days ago
[Infographic] How People Use iPhones and Androids in China
"China has the largest mobile-phone installed base (by volume) in the world, and just as it is in the U.S., the Chinese market is an Android vs. iPhone war."
china  ios  business  statistics 
11 days ago
9 Deadliest Start-up Sins « Steve Blank
software  business  advice 
11 days ago
Introduction to Databases
"A bold experiment in distributed education, "Introduction to Databases" is being offered free and online to students worldwide, October 10 - December 12, 2011. Students have access to lecture videos, are given assignments and exams, receive regular feedback on progress, and participate in a discussion forum."
standford  programming  online  course 
11 days ago
edX - Home
"Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced edX, a transformational new partnership in online education."
mit  online  course 
12 days ago
MITx: MIT's new online learning initiative
"MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses for free to a virtual community of learners around the world."
online  course  mit 
12 days ago
Stanford School of Engineering - Stanford Engineering Everywhere
"For the first time in its history, Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes free of charge to students and educators around the world."
online  programming  standford  course 
12 days ago
Roger McNamee on the New Web: “Everything That Mattered Over the Last Eight Years Won’t Matter Anymore” | PandoDaily
"what the iPhone has enabled, a digital 'do-over' for the content world"
web  business  advice  video 
12 days ago
Cloud is a corporate strategy, not a tactical solution — Cloud Computing News
"Why the cloud management platform you choose is so important"
software  business  advice 
16 days ago
mikeash.com: Solving Simulator Bootstrap Errors
ios  xcode  advice 
18 days ago
Android Is Either “Winning” Because Apple Is Letting It, Or Losing | TechCrunch
mobile  ios  business 
19 days ago
Avid Brings Its "Pro-sumer" Video Editing App to iPad - Lauren Goode - News - AllThingsD
"The iPad app marks the Burlington, Mass.-based company’s first video editing application for tablets."
ios  video  app  business 
23 days ago
Pusher | HTML5 WebSocket Powered Realtime Messaging Service
"We provide a simple set of APIs and libraries that allow you to build rich realtime features in hours rather than days."
html5  web  service 
23 days ago
Const, RTTI, and Efficiency
"Const is an insurance policy."
software  programming  advice  scott  meyers 
25 days ago
Valve: How I Got Here, What It’s Like, and What I’m Doing | Valve
"If most of the value is now in the initial creative act, there’s little benefit to traditional hierarchical organization that’s designed to deliver the same thing over and over, making only incremental changes over time. What matters is being first and bootstrapping your product into a positive feedback spiral with a constant stream of creative innovation."

"Valve has no formal management or hierarchy at all."
software  business  management  advice 
4 weeks ago
Apple - Business - App Store Volume Purchasing for Business
"a way to purchase custom B2B apps built by third-party developers"
apple  appstore  business  tool 
5 weeks ago
SDK Adoption: Doubled Our Conversion Click Rates | Daniel R. Odio - Entrepreneur & LifeHacker in Silicon Valley
"Knowing how to successfully get developers to adopt and implement an SDK is a huge tactical advantage."
software  business  advice 
5 weeks ago
Copyright Notice Examples
software  code  reference  from notes
5 weeks ago
Mike Swanson's Blog
ios  developer  blog 
6 weeks ago
Duck Rowing » Documenting Objective-C with Doxygen Part I
"Documentation is what allows us to collaborate and use libraries written by people we’ve never met."
ios  software  documentation  tutorial 
6 weeks ago
Comparison of documentation generators - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
wikipedia  software  documentation  tool  list 
6 weeks ago
#AltDevBlogADay » The demise of the low level Programmer.
"a list of things I believe all console programmers (and recommend to all programmers as good reading) should fully understand"
software  programming  advice 
6 weeks ago
Testing like the TSA - (37signals)
software  testing  advice 
6 weeks ago
High Scalability - High Scalability - The Instagram Architecture Facebook Bought for a Cool Billion Dollars
If I'm reading this correctly, then apparently it was three engineers that built the architecture that Facebook purchased for a billion dollars.
software  business 
6 weeks ago
gitguru » Rebase v Merge in Git
"wondering what the difference is between rebase and merge and why you’d choose one over the other"
git  reference 
6 weeks ago
Android - Processing
"make it foolishly easy to create Android apps using the Processing API"
android  graphics  art  tool 
7 weeks ago
Paper | FiftyThree
"Paper was designed from the ground up for touch and creating on the go."
free  ios  graphic  app 
8 weeks ago
Call Me Fishmeal.: The Mac App Store Needs Paid Upgrades
"The Mac App Store has been a huge boon to Mac software developers, but has an enormous flaw: it needs to allow developers to charge existing customers a discounted price for major upgrades."
ios  mac  business  analysis 
8 weeks ago
Xcode 4.2 building for iOS 3.1.x and older devices
"The release of Xcode 4.2 and iOS 5 added a couple of extra hurdles if you want to support older devices and pre-iOS 4.2 releases."
ios  xcode  advice 
february 2012
148Apps.biz | Apple iTunes App Store Metrics, Statistics and Numbers for iPhone Apps
ios  business  statistics  reference 
february 2012
Dec. 19, 1974: Build Your Own Computer at Home! | This Day In Tech | Wired.com
hardware  history 
december 2011
How do I exclude my internal traffic from reports? - Analytics Help
google  analytics  advice 
november 2011
A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com
apple  steve-jobs  speech 
november 2011
The List that Sorts Itself - YouTube
short-list  youtube  video  demo 
october 2011
Otto's Demo Reel from AnimationMentor
june 2011
Mac OS X Lion Application Compatibility - RoaringApps
"a collaborative wiki community to track, discuss and dissect application compatibility for Mac OS X Lion"
mac  app  compatibility  list 
april 2011
CAShapeLayer Interpolation
"the Core Animation engine interpolates values from the current path to the new path and morphs the shape from one to the other"
cocoa  layer  programming  advice  article 
february 2011
The Road to Economic Crisis Is Paved With Euros - NYTimes.com
"Europe is in deep crisis — because its proudest achievement, the single currency adopted by most European nations, is now in danger."
europe  business  finance  nyt  article 
january 2011
Well-Placed Pixels
"a visual record of beautiful software"
software  interface  design  image  blog 
january 2011
YouTube - The Chase Film
hardware  youtube  video 
january 2011
Building Fancy DMG Images on Mac OS X - El Tramo
"how DMG files with a customized look can be built"
mac  software  programming  reference 
december 2010
Apple Publication Style Guide - December 2009
"editorial guidelines for text in Apple instructional publications"
apple  documentation  style  reference  pdf 
november 2010
Lab color space - Wikipedia
"Lab color is designed to approximate human vision"
color  analysis 
november 2010
Color quantization - Wikipedia
color  analysis 
november 2010
Touch Gesture Reference Guide - LukeW
"for software designers and developers working on touch-based user interfaces"
iphone  gesture  design  reference 
august 2010
Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence - New Scientist
"We're showing how complex traits like memory can be built from the bottom up, from things that are really very simple."
machine-learning  genetic-algorithm  research 
august 2010
rooSwitch.app
"Shuffle Your Settings Around" "a multi-user environment for just one application"
mac  user  settings  testing  tool 
july 2010
ADC—Introducing Blocks and Grand Central Dispatch
june 2010
Thoughts on Flash
Steve Job's thoughts on flash. As is typical, direct and brutal.
apple  flash  iphone 
may 2010
Lansing Area Macintosh and Lisa Users Group
"LAMALUG meets on the third Thursday of the month in the basement room 165 of the Arts & Sciences (A & S) building at Lansing Community College. The meetings begin at 6:30 with a general Question and Answer session."
lansing  michigan  mac  social  group 
may 2010
Sifted Videos
"videos from the best video hosts from around the Net to be voted on by other Sifters with only the best being "sifted" up to the front page"
social  video  reference 
may 2010
Password Manager + Automatic Form Filler for Mac OS X
security  management  software  product 
april 2010
TEDxLansing | ideas worth spreading
lansing  social  event 
april 2010
iChat Video Problems + Solutions
"iChat has a serious problem: more than any other program most people use on the Mac, it depends on a properly set up network to work"
mac  chat  diagnostic  tutorial 
april 2010
Pixelmator
"image editing for the rest of us"
mac  image  software  tool 
april 2010
DCT 2000 Digital Consumer Terminal (PDF)
Comcast cable box manual
comcast  cable  manual  pdf 
april 2010
Chris Hanson - Xcode: Debugging Cocoa framework unit tests
cocoa  independent  target  testing  tutorial  @work 
april 2010
Apple Open Source - Releases
work  apple  opensource  resource 
april 2010
iPhone Screentaker updated with iPad templates
"Fabian Kreiser has recently updated his screen capturing app for Mac OS X to include support iPad screen captures."
work  ipad  screen  software  tool 
april 2010
KAYAK
"Cheap Flights, Hotels, Airline Tickets, Cheap Tickets, Travel Deals - Compare Hundreds of Travel Sites At Once"
travel  price  search  resource 
april 2010
Big Think
"a global forum connecting people and ideas"
social  culture  technology  activism  blog 
march 2010
Tick
"Track time - Hit budgets"
time  management  online  tool  service 
march 2010
Next Mobile Web
"customer service numbers of over 600 companies and skip directly to a person"
iphone  customer  service  app 
march 2010
Pay to Play: Some iPhone App Sites Demand Money for Reviews
"Soliciting money in exchange for a product review is not illegal, but the practice should raise questions about the credibility and independence of the review sites."
iphone  software  review  business 
march 2010
An Ode to DiskWarrior, SuperDuper, and Dropbox - Daring Fireball
"Hard drives are fragile. ... Assume that yours are all on the cusp of failure at all times."
apple  hardware  failure  advice  article 
march 2010
GDC: Refenes’ & Saltsman’s Baffling $350 App Store Success
"Refenes decided to test its resilience by boosting the game’s selling price every time at least one copy was sold."
iphone  software  price  article 
march 2010
6 ways iPhone and Android users differ
iphone  android  hardware  market  analysis 
february 2010
On switching away from Core Data
"Core Data is the right answer, except when it’s not, and hopefully I’ve made it a little easier to figure out when it’s not the right answer"
iphone  programmer  database  advice  article 
february 2010
John Gruber at Macworld 2010 - YouTube
"Daring Fireball's John Gruber at Macworld 2010 in San Francisco."
gruber  mac  business  youtube  video 
february 2010
An Interview with Daniel Jalkut, Red Sweater Software
"the sixth in a series of interviews I've held with indie software developers about marketing Mac software"
mac  software  programmer  marketing  advice 
february 2010
Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial
"user-friendly, six-part tutorial, Joel Spolsky teaches you the key concepts"
joel  mecurial  tutorial 
february 2010
iPhone prototyping, custom widgets, custom icons and more
"FlairBuilder comes with dedicated support for iPhone applications prototyping"
iphone  software  interface  design  tool 
february 2010
TechSmith Podcast - MyMac Magazine
"Interviews include President Bill Hamilton, Tony Dunckel, Dave McCollom, Dave Cheng, Troy Stein, and Amy Hagerstrom."
techsmith  podcast  audio  interview 
february 2010
13 Lucky Marketing Tips for Indie Developers - Part 2 of 3
software  programmer  business  marketing  advice  list 
february 2010
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