Archive for November, 2008
Friday, November 28th, 2008
Nick commented on my earlier post claiming that the cost of a development machine (a Mac) is simply too much to sway him to develop for the iPhone. This mentality ignores the principle that good apps on the iPhone MAKE money.
CONNECTED DATA writes about why they develop for the iPhone:
When ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
About a hundred years ago in 1995 I was being taught Modula-2. And I loathed it.
One thing I took home from it was to somewhat intelligently name your variables.
This is why the Hillegass Cocoa bible is causing some upset for me. They use terms like 'tableView' and I'm never ...
Posted in Code, cocoa | 12 Comments »
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
I was forwarded this link by @surfsofa:"Chief executives still don't get the web".
A recent Heidrick & Struggles poll found that 56pc of senior business people had never logged onto Facebook. Clearly there's a generation gap issue, as most CEOs are in their 40s or older. CEOs who got burnt in ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
ITNews Australias writes:
What do you get if you take an iPhone, remove the clean UI, user friendliness, nice industrial design, battery life, cachet, functional OS, and in general everything else that makes it worthwhile?
The new Microsoft phone, powered by Nvidia.
I'm sceptical of the truth of this but it does ...
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