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"Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it...."

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:57:15 +0100

“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.”

- Edsger W. Dijkstra

South Park in CSS3

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:35:05 +0100

South Park in CSS3:

This is great! Not a single image on the entire site.

maniacalrage: At least Amazon’s developers have the balls to...

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:53:21 +0100

maniacalrage:

At least Amazon’s developers have the balls to call it what it is.

Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:31:56 +0100

Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think

Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month Late

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:42:30 +0200

Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month Late:

So, 24 years ago, Apple predicted a complex natural-language voice assistant built into a touchscreen Apple device, and was less than a month off.

Best press release ever.

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:57:53 +0200

Best press release ever.

MicroJS

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:19:23 +0200

MicroJS:

Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries in JS.

Unobtrusive Ruby

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:33:14 +0200

Unobtrusive Ruby:

Thoughtbot:

Unobtrusive Ruby is any Ruby code that stays out of your way. It does not make you write lots of boilerplate, or stub methods, or open classes. It is decoupled. Its tests run quickly, its classes fit on one screen, its methods are tiny, and it is quickly refactorable.

LeapFrog releases a PlayBook competitor

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:54:07 +0200

LeapFrog releases a PlayBook competitor

Where the nerds meet the hippies

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:35:32 +0200

Where the nerds meet the hippies:

Neelie Kroes:

In summary, Silicon Valley offers a lot of insights for Europe. We should not try to replicate it, but we can learn from its example, and devise our own models. We need to inject a more entrepreneurial culture in our universities; invest in stronger trans-European networks of researchers, venture capital, and entrepreneurs; and stimulate our ‘old’ multinationals and incumbents to be more innovation friendly and to embrace, not fight, new technologies and disruptive business models. Going to the Valley is a breathtaking experience and anyone in Europe interested in developing an ICT business should go; hopefully they will bring back ideas to build the new global businesses of the future here.

GitHub Flow

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:52:00 +0200

GitHub Flow:

Scott Chacon has a nice write-up on Github’s workflow with Git: GitHub Flow. In his post he describes how GitHub deploys to production several times a day and how that clashes with Vincent Driessen’s excellent git-flow.

Scott Chacon:

One of the bigger issues for me is that it’s more complicated than I think most developers and development teams actually require. It’s complicated enough that a big helper script was developed to help enforce the flow. Though this is cool, the issue is that it cannot be enforced in a Git GUI, only on the command line, so the only people who have to learn the complex workflow really well, because they have to do all the steps manually, are the same people who aren’t comfortable with the system enough to use it from the command line. This can be a huge problem.

Having recently managed to introduce git at work, I have encountered this exact issue myself. I’m the only developer who is comfortable with the command line. My colleagues all use some sort of IDE plug-in to enable them to use git. Therefore I haven’t even bothered to introduce git-flow. Although I certainly wish I could. A Git GUI which enforces the git-flow branching model would make my quest a lot easier (I hope your listening git-tower ;) ).

Scott’s article is great and gives a lot of insight into the workflow of one of the companies I hold in high regard. Check it out!

It has a cursor!

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:10:58 +0200

It has a cursor!:

After realizing Flash wasn’t as big of a selling point as they initially expected, Android tablet makers have to find new unwanted features to market their products with. Lenovo, is the first to uncover a new ‘iPad-killing’ feature to include in their Android based ThinkPad: A cursor/mouse. Check the second video in the source link around 01:48 to see for yourself.

And boy does the first video look painful.

Tim Stevens:

Ultimately the usability is reasonably good

Really Tim? Look at that first video again (especially the first 30 seconds) and think about that statement. Would you seriously consider that usable if you were forced to work on that ?

Content Management Systems Rap (via Shawn Blanc)

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:25:58 +0200

Content Management Systems Rap (via Shawn Blanc)

minimalmac: Not what we believe in. (via the entire internet)

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:06:09 +0200

minimalmac:

Not what we believe in.

(via the entire internet)

"While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to..."

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:49:05 +0200

“While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

- Think Different (via minimalmac)

Steve Jobs: ‎”I think if you do something and it turns out...

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:41:50 +0200

Steve Jobs:

‎”I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.”

(via Dave Morin)

(via Alexander Klöpping)

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:14:34 +0200

(via Alexander Klöpping)

Facebook partners with Stackoverflow

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:09:17 +0200

Facebook partners with Stackoverflow:

This partnership replaces our existing forums, which, while worked effectively at the beginning of Platform, have begun to show their age. We spent many months looking at the right long-term solution and decided that a partnership with one of the best technical Q&A sites on the Web was the best approach for our community.

Good move.

UX Job Title Generator

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:57:45 +0200

UX Job Title Generator:

Need help coming up with a job title for your UX job opening? Use this generator.

Mozilla takes on PhoneGap

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:06:45 +0200

Mozilla takes on PhoneGap:

Joe Brockmeier:

Robert Nyman, technical evangelist for Mozilla, says that the API would be used for any application needing to interact with information or other applications; for instance, any application that needs to dial the phone, use the camera, control phone settings or access the contacts on the phone.

Sounds a lot like PhoneGap to me.

Another alternative is PhoneGap, which Nyman says has been “tremendously useful,” but it isn’t considered a standard. PhoneGap is also limited to iOS, Android, WP7, BlackBerry, webOS, Symbian, and Bada – and doesn’t have uniform support for hardware across all OSes.

Although I’m not a fan of cross-platform development, I do applaud efforts to make it better. But why another framework ? Here is a thought: PhoneGap is open-source. Why not just contribute to that ?

Apple, for example, has little incentive to provide companies like Amazon an even better escape hatch out of native iOS development.

I couldn’t agree less. Apple currently offers the best support for web-apps in the industry. Apple is concerned about user-experience, not web development vs iOS development.