September 2010
1 post
“If I had to say one thing to those who wonder how to make their companies more...”
– Tom Coates (one of the outstanding presenters at last week’s dConstruct conference)
October 2009
1 post
New album from BT coming soon - here’s a...
August 2009
1 post
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
June 2009
1 post
April 2009
3 posts
Google App Engine and Groovy apps →
Google recently added Java application support to their Google App Engine platform. Getting Grails applications working on this platform also would be truly awesome.
“If there’s a formula to Apple’s success over the past 10 years, that’s it. Start...”
– Daring Fireball piece pretty much nails the iPhone and Apple’s recipe for success.
March 2009
2 posts
“It’s entirely your responsibility to make your dreams come through.”
– Tough love from DHH
February 2009
2 posts
Canonical URL tag →
Big 3 search engines have announced support for a new canonical url link tag - the article below is well worth a read for anyone working in this area (even if you’ve only a vague interest in SEO!)
January 2009
3 posts
Firebug 1.3 Released →
No more having to double submit POST requests to sniff the http traffic from within Firebug. Tons of other bug fixes & enhancements.
It’s hard to imagine what it was like for us all building webapps without Firebug. Awesome work.
Steve Jobs admits to health problems →
Remarkably honest and open letter from Steve about his ongoing weight loss. Get well soon.
October 2008
4 posts
“[Apple’s iPhone] is the most expensive phone in the world and it...”
– Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, January 17, 2007
(Many more examples of iPhone unbelievers over at MacDailyNews)
“JavaScript was the world’s most misunderstood programming language. Its...”
– Douglas Crockford - The World’s Most Misunderstood Programming Language Has Become the World’s Most Popular Programming Language
September 2008
12 posts
TraceMonkey vs SquirrelFish vs V8 - Round 2 -... →
“And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to...”
– History of the browser user-agent string. Hilarious. (via Daring Fireball)
Tracemonkey →
Yet more evidence of why I believe JavaScript is the most important programming language for developers today.
August 2008
2 posts
Steve Jobs fesses up to mistakes made over the... →
Open Source and Cloud Computing →
Insightful piece by Tim O’Reilly on the future of the internet, cloud computing and open source.
July 2008
9 posts
“Unfortunately, after a week of intense testing of the service, I can’t recommend...”
– Walt Mossberg is about as impressed as I am with Apple’s new MobileMe service.
Unfortunate product naming... →
“It feels a little like Apple got swept up in knocking down every single...”
– I’d been planning on writing a piece about my disappointment with the iPhone 2.0 software upgrade for a while but this DHH piece absolutely nails it.
Personal gripes
Spending an entire weekend with an iBrick after Apple’s iTunes activation servers died (Serves me right for trying to...
“You might be a big fish,
In a little pond,
Doesn’t mean you’ve...”
– Coldplay, Viva La Vida, Lost?
PDF is now ISO 32000-1 →
Adobe have relinquished control of the PDF format which is now an ISO international standard. Great news for the OpenWeb.
(via MacWorld UK)
June 2008
2 posts
Free iPhone 3G upgrade for O2 customers in the UK.... →
May 2008
12 posts
“When you’ve been living in Ruby-land for a while, Java’s verbosity starts to...”
– Tim Bray talking about a RESTful JavaOne
“Turkish Delight” Some music that I...
“The victims will only notice it when they purchase a new computer… At that...”
– Mark Pilgrim on Microsoft pulling support for MSN Music. DRM truly does suck.
“Virtually every useful tutorial in the world was written by a...”
– Archive post on Why Specs Matter by Mark Pilgrim. Made me smile. I am, of course, a moron :-)