Jan
26
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Bespoke — Custom Tailoring Software

Bespoke: Can you imagine a future where, for a price, a key software tool that you rely on can be bespoke? (Via patrickrhone / journal) Interesting idea–one [...]

Jan
25
By Rob Warner  //  No Comments

Dr. StrangeUnix Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mac

Dr. StrangeUnix Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mac: But what the fact that “It’s just UNIX now” got us was the ability [...]

Jan
23
By Rob Warner  //  No Comments

Why tabs are clearly superior | Lea Verou

Why tabs are clearly superior | Lea Verou: “If you follow me on twitter or have heard one of my talks you’ll probably know I despise spaces [...]

Jan
20
By Rob Warner  //  1 Comment

On the Usability of Codecademy

On the Usability of Codecademy: Usability is hard because real users use our UIs and software in different and unexpected ways. (Via Zen and the Art of [...]

Jan
19
By Rob Warner  //  No Comments

App Cubby Blog – Free and Low-Cost Apps

App Cubby Blog – Free and Low-Cost Apps: “The pool of time users spend on smartphones is staggering and growing rapidly, but it is not infinite. The [...]

Jan
17
By Rob Warner  //  No Comments

Trust is fragile – (37signals)

Trust is fragile – (37signals): So let’s start with first things first: We’re sorry. We made a mistake. We should have thought it through and remembered that [...]

Jan
4
By Rob Warner  //  No Comments

Immobile Apps

Immobile Apps: One of the most painful things we did when developing Glassboard was ban ourselves from Wi-Fi for a week. I live in an area where [...]

Dec
15
By Rob Warner  //  2 Comments

Kindle Fire Does Not Fire the Imagination

Kindle Fire Does Not Fire the Imagination: The Kindle software itself is a lousy reading experience; the justified, un-hyphenated typography is an eyesore, the font selection is [...]

Nov
4
By Rob Warner  //  No Comments

Beginning OS X Lion Apps Development

The writing, editing, and reviewing are done, and Beginning OS X Lion Apps Development is set to go to press. The publication date is listed as November [...]

Sep
21
By Rob Warner  //  4 Comments

“An Introduction to MapReduce” by Pete Warden; O’Reilly Media

Founder of OpenHeatMap Pete Warden provides a simple introduction to MapReduce, the Google-created framework for examining large datasets. This video tutorial includes four videos: an intro to [...]

Sep
13
By Rob Warner  //  No Comments

Automator for the Web: ifttt

A new web service, If This Then That (ifttt), allows you to wire web triggers to web actions. Go check it out. I just wired this blog [...]

Sep
10
By Rob Warner  //  3 Comments

My Review of Larry Bird

Originally submitted at Fathead Larry Bird NBA Legend. Real.Big. Fathead Wall Graphic Larry Bird Greatest Player Ever By hoop33 from Jacksonville, FL on 9/10/2011   5out of [...]

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