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Also: Why I'm learning to code

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:08:30 -0400

I run a company whose product is written in code, and I don’t yet speak the language. I sometimes feel like a newspaper publisher who has to take his editor’s word for it that the articles are good. You trust your people, you know you could never write the way they do, but it would still be good…

jmak: Thanks, Steve. Posting designs like this one makes me...

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:42:31 -0400

jmak:

Thanks, Steve.

Posting designs like this one makes me paranoid, because I can’t shake the feeling that it’s not original. I enjoyed the process regardless, but please let me know if somebody else beat me to the idea!

Thoughts?

Folyo: "How much does a website cost?" and other pricing questions

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:20:37 -0400

Folyo: "How much does a website cost?" and other pricing questions:

folyo:

If there’s one thing nobody seems to want to talk about, it’s pricing. Most designers don’t publish their rates, and good luck getting a company to tell you how much they paid for their site.

The results of this situation is that it can be pretty hard to know how much to spent on design. Spend…

thomforsyth: LIVING IN DIGITAL | Justin Livi The piece...

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:36:48 -0400

thomforsyth:

LIVING IN DIGITAL | Justin Livi

The piece represents the passage from analogue to digital and the inevitable loss of information. The squares represent pixels and are restricted to a simple five-color scheme.

Chris Eidhof: "I've got an idea for an app"

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:33:03 -0400

Chris Eidhof: "I've got an idea for an app":

chriseidhof:

I’ve been an iPhone developer for over three years now. The first app I built was CookieCombo. We sold enough copies to go bowling twice, but still it was completely worth it. We tweeted about it, and got some awesome gigs out of that. Everybody was in need of iPhone developers, and there was a…

corwood: Matchbox.

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:51:01 -0400

corwood:

Matchbox.

Chris Eidhof: Why I develop for iOS

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:47:02 -0400

Chris Eidhof: Why I develop for iOS:

chriseidhof:

Sometimes I ask myself the question: why do I develop for iOS? I could also do Haskell development, do cool HTML5 stuff, or build compilers. As an indie developer, these are some important reasons for me.

High-end platform

The iPhone and iPad are the high-end of the smartphones and tablets….

1000drawings: (by Nate Frizzell )

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 02:58:33 -0400

1000drawings:

(by Nate Frizzell )

An iOS Developer Takes on Android

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 02:56:21 -0400

nfarina:

Recently, we released the Android version of Meridian, our platform for building location-based apps.

We didn’t use one of these “Cross Platform!” tools like Titanium. We wrote it, from scratch, in Java, like you do in Android.

We decided it was important to keep the native stuff native, and to respect each platform’s conventions as much as possible. Some conventions are easy to follow, like putting our tabs on the top. Other conventions go deep into the Android Way, like handling Intents, closing old Activities, implementing Search Providers, and being strict about references to help the garbage collector.

Now, our platform leverages HTML5 (buzzword, sorry) in many places for branding and content display, so we got a fair amount of UI for free. But there was much platform code written in Objective-C that needed translation into Java, such as map navigation, directions, and location switching.

So, we rolled up our sleeves, downloaded the Android SDK, and got to work.

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idrawnintendo: I wanted to draw at least one comic where Link...

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 02:45:39 -0400

idrawnintendo:

I wanted to draw at least one comic where Link looked like a badass.

Eric Bjorndahl's Blog: How We Have Attempted to Recover from Google Panda

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:05:55 -0400

Eric Bjorndahl's Blog: How We Have Attempted to Recover from Google Panda:

ericbjorndahl:

BACKGROUND

My main site, TravBuddy, was hit in February by Google’s latest “Panda” algorithm. This post isn’t really meant to complain about the issues we’ve noticed - we’ll save that for a later post ;) - but to openly talk about some of the things we’ve done to try to recover.

First off,…

Source Code

Wed, 11 May 2011 09:27:34 -0400

Three things came from watching this movie:

Upon arriving home I realised how stupid one specific thing in that movie was and decided it was worth the following.

Dear Terrorists,

Please be so kind to include Geiger counters with your dirty bombs. See you know that it’s a dirty bomb, but chances are that those finding it, might not. Nobody likes to unknowingly playing with radio-active material.

Thanks in advance.

That scene just didn’t sit right with me when I thought about it.

Secondly, how can one be “inside the Source Code” ? That statement makes no sense at all. Break it apart, a placement and an object. How can you be inside the starting state of an object? The object hasn’t begun to take form.

Somewhat spoiler after the read more.

Left the cinema thinking…

Trainception - We need to go deeper.

Jyo's Note: Former Google VP Kai-Fu Lee Got a Nickname, Start-Copy Lee

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:44:43 -0400

Jyo's Note: Former Google VP Kai-Fu Lee Got a Nickname, Start-Copy Lee:

jyorr:

The story

Beijing, China-based startup, DianDian, has recently raised $10 million from big names like Sequoia and Ceyuan. With more than $1 million capital it seized from Kai-Fu Lee’s Innovation Works in Feburay, DianDian has raised a total of $11 million or more in just several months.

You might wonder what kind of service DianDian provides. Actually it is a

If GoDaddy had a command line interface

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:12:02 -0400

If GoDaddy had a command line interface:

thechangelog:

Funny stuff from ernie:

$ godaddy buy wynn.fm
-- Reading CC Info from .godaddy...
-- THANK YOU FOR PURCHASING YOUR DOMAIN WITH GODADDY!
-- WHILE OUR SERVERS THINK ABOUT REGISTERING YOUR DOMAIN
-- NAME, PLEASE GIVE CAREFUL CONSIDERATION TO THE
-- FOLLOWING SPECIAL OFFERS!!!

Would you like to also register the following and SAVE 64%?

  wynn.net
  wynn.com
  wynn.org
  wynn.info
  wynn.us
  wynn.mobi

(Y/n)? n

Would you like to certify this domain for ONLY $4.99/YR (Y/n)? n
Would you like a protected registration for ONLY $24.99/YR (Y/n)? n
Okay, how about a private registration for ONLY $11.99/YR (Y/n)? n
Would you like 10 email addresses & unlimited storage, Online Calendar, 10GB online
storage for mobile files, back up & more for ONLY $4.99/MO (Y/n)? n
Okay, how about 10 email addresses & unlimited storage for ONLY $2.99/MO (Y/n)? n
Okay, how about 5 email addresses & 2GB storage for ONLY $2.49/MO (Y/n)? n
Would you like^C

It appears you have attempted to interrupt this process.
IF YOU DO SO, WE CANNOT GUARANTEE THE FUTURE AVAILABILITY OF WYNN.FM.

ARE YOU SURE (y/N)? 

GREAT! Let's start over, then!

*headdesk*

-- THANK YOU FOR PURCHASING YOUR DOMAIN WITH GODADDY!
-- WHILE OUR SERVERS THINK ABOUT REGISTERING YOUR DOMAIN
-- NAME, PLEASE GIVE CAREFUL CONSIDERATION TO THE
-- FOLLOWING SPECIAL OFFERS!!!
....

Before I die

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:12:05 -0400

Before I die

Photo

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:50:04 -0400

Tron Legacy

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:59:00 -0400

Tron Legacy:

I spent a half year writing software art to generate special effects for Tron Legacy, working at Digital Domain with Bradley “GMUNK” Grosh, Jake Sargeant, and David “dlew” Lewandowski. This page has taken a long time to be published because I’ve had to await clearance. A lot of my team’s work was done using Adobe software and Cinema 4D. The rest of it got written in C++ using OpenFrameworks and wxWidgets, the way I’ve always done it with this team ;)

Interesting read.

Photo

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:10:55 -0400

Photo

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:29:48 -0400

Photo

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:09:13 -0400