Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 28th, 2008
From iPhoneDevelopment by Jeff LaMarche:
Third rule: insulate your team from corporate silliness to the fullest extent of your power. Nothing will make these people leave your employ faster than making them sit in unproductive, boring meetings that don't directly further the project. The kind of person you want, wants to ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
For a long while now I've been a proponent of 'Bedouin' working, which is known a little more in the mainstream as 'co-working'. Whereas co-working speaks to me of a common, shared space for individuals to work, Bedouin speaks of multiple spaces, some of them dedicated and some of them ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
'Perry' wrote (on the RogueAmoeba blog post "Code Signing and You"):
"...the case for Code Signing on a Mac - in the service of its administrator/owner - is very compelling. In a sense, the Mac is living on borrowed time - viruses and worms and other nasty bit-critters will surely come ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
John Gruber writes a short entry about top posting.
Top posting is the process where you reply to an email by adding your comments at the top of the email and not editing the content beneath. In many cases it means that you need to scroll to the bottom of the ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Content theft in the age of RSS and aggregation happens every day. I delete a dozen spam links every day which have scooped my content and used it to attract visitors to their site.
Something.ie has done this to Damien Mulley. Mulley, remember him, he's an amiable loudmouth from Cork. It ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
McBarCamp is an idea by Fraser Speirs to have a Mac/iPhone/Cocoa Development Camp thing somewhere near Glasgow during the summer months.
Apart from the wee detail about getting married, I'm game for a laugh.
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
We've nearly been there for just over two months and I can think of no downsides. At the moment, the commute from Bangor takes about twenty minutes (leaving the house at 7 am) and the commute home takes about forty minutes (leaving at 4:20 pm). In short my commute time ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Codeweavers writes: " Today we shipped CrossOver Games. I am very excited by this change; I have enjoyed computer games all of my life, and I like the idea that we can help others enjoy their new computers fully."
Oh noes!
I need more free time!
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
David Owen in the New Yorker wrote: "In 1940, an average one-pound loaf of bread sold for eight cents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That means that a penny in those days bought enough bread to make a good-sized sandwich. These days, a penny doesn’t buy much more than ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
One thing that is nice about John Dvorak is that he truly has a visionary streak. In all the years I've read about technology, Dvorak has seldom been right. He's managed to cherry-pick the absolutely wrong from the blatantly obvious for years. That has to count for something.
The rant this ...
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