Every time I use the iPhone App Store, a little piece of my soul dies.
I don't think I've ever been as conflicted about something as I am about the iTunes App Store. There are so many intersections at which it is both the... more »
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The Darker Side Of iPhone App Development
I’m in the middle of building an iPhone app (for eventual distribution in the App Store) and, given what happened recently with NetShare, I took a... more »
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Installing Erlang and a few libraries on Mac OS X
Lets start with installing the basic Erlang runtime.
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The Fall of Rome: The Microsoft Way
I’ve always been a fan of smart phones, and for the most part I’ve been a Microsoft faithful (there was that brief moment back around 2000 though when... more »
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PhoneGap Converts Webapps to Native Apps
A story about PhoneGap, a free open source development tool and framework that allows web developers to take advantage of the powerful features in the... more »
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Girl Developer wants to know why we all just can't get along....
There are wars fought world wide over arbitrary ideals, developers will be the first people to tell you that. Why can't we apply the same unbiased... more »
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Apple and Ruby: iPhone Enterprise Config Web Utility on Rails, SproutCore tools written in Ruby
Ruby pops up in some recent software provided or used by Apple. The iPhone Configuration Web Utility for Enterprises is built on Rails. SproutCore,... more »
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Enthusiasm Makes Programmers
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Reading typical pro-Apple drivel is quite a common experience for anyone who frequents websites like Digg or Reddit, or the internet in generel. So no... more »
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Separation of Model and View Web Frameworks
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A long-time friend and co-worker wants me to help him prototype a web application. I started on web app programming but most of my time now goes into... more »
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Flash'In'App - Cocoa framework, which lets you easily implement Flash Player Component in your application
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Flash'In'App is a free Cocoa framework that lets you load and fully manage Adobe® Flash movies directly from your own applications for Mac OS X.... more »
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JavaFX Preview Released: When Will the Madness Stop?
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I with many have been a believer in Java on the client. I was excited to learn at JavaOne 07 about JavaFX, and even more excited by the great demos at... more »
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Cocoa Tutorial: Windows OOP vs Cocoa MVC
Encapsulate everything! Right? Or not. I was watching the Cocoa developers email list today and saw a post asking for help getting two views to... more »
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IPhone Apps: Why We Still Need the iPhone App Black Market
we need more than Apple's official app store—we still need jailbreaking, Installer.app (now Cydia) and the best unauthorized third-party apps to make... more »
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How to: Recreate apple.com menubar
Apple.com menubar is really an exemple in terms of clean, semantic code and very cool design. In this tutorial, I propose you to recreate Apple’s... more »
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SoyLatte To Be Integrated Into OpenJDK
That means that all of the BSD Java changes, including the SoyLatte Mac OS X port, can now be sent to the OpenJDK project, and an official BSD porters... more »
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The New Apple Walled Garden
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Geeks and enthusiasts wearing Wordpress t-shirts, using laptops covered in Data Portability, Microformats and RSS stickers lined up enthusiastically... more »
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1200 Baud Archeology: Reconstructing Apple I BASIC from a Cassette Tape
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The audio file that was posted two weeks ago is indeed a very important artifact of computer history: It is a recording of the “Apple I BASIC”... more »
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Hypenotized by Apple
Watching the cloud of hype around last week's release of the new iPhone, I was struck by the way Apple's psychological influence over the tech... more »
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Swing applications and Mac OS X menu bar
Every once in a while i get questions on using the Mac OS X menu bar for Swing applications running under Substance look-and-feel. This refers to the... more »
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Don't compare GNU/Linux with Windows or MacOS - they are not in the same game
Recently a blog post entitled “Why Desktop Linux is its own worst enemy has come across my feed-radar a few times. It’s yet another in the long line... more »
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Touching and Gesturing on the iPhone
Everyone who owns an iPhone (or who has been holding out for an iPhone 3G) is bound to be excited about a lot of the new things the device can finally... more »
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Web Development in Mac OS X - Complete Guide
I will try to write this guide as complete as possible. I will cover the following key aspects: * Installing Apache, MySQL, PHP and configuring... more »
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Way beyond cool: autotest + growl + Doomguy
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Here’s something that will amaze your friends to no end. Your male geek friends, that is. Type some code in your editor, save file and… a smiling Doom... more »
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Can’t Apple and Adobe Just Get Along?
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that it looks like all of those rumors of of Flash for the iPhone are wrong.
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100 Vim commands every programmer should know
Since the 70’s, Vi is one of the programmer’s best friend. Nevermind you’re new to Vi or not, here’s a big list of 100 useful commands, organized by... more »
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