May
17
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How Steve Ballmer Predicted the Downfall of Mac OS X

Back in the year 2000, Steve Ballmer danced, as they say, like a Monkey Boy, chanting, “Developers! Developers! Developers!” in an infinite loop. Sweating like an offensive [...]

May
13
By Rob Warner  //  No Comments

Daring Fireball: iOS Low-Hanging Fruit

Daring Fireball: iOS Low-Hanging Fruit: “iOS is by no means feature-complete. But it’s getting harder to identify the low-hanging fruit — the things you just know Apple [...]

May
11
By Rob Warner  //  No Comments

Two Skeuomorphs: A Radio and a Weight Tracker

The 2007 Transformers movie showcased three stars: Megan Fox, Shia LaBeouf, and an all-new, futuristic-but-retro Chevrolet Camaro. All men drooled over Megan Fox, but the car guys moved [...]

Apr
18
By Rob Warner  //  No Comments

Eclipse: Insufficient access privileges to apply this update.

I use Eclipse for all my Java development (and Mac OS X for all my development). Today, a bug with portlet deployment to Liferay required me to [...]

Apr
17
By Rob Warner  //  No Comments

Learn to Read the Source, Luke

Learn to Read the Source, Luke: No matter what the documentation says, the source code is the ultimate truth, the best and most definitive and up-to-date documentation [...]

Apr
5
By Rob Warner  //  No Comments

Developer Interview Advice from a Designer

I was chatting with one of the designers I work with about his interview experience when he was hired, and he remarked how interesting it was that [...]

Apr
3
By Rob Warner  //  No Comments

Debugging Through Google is Rotting My Brain

A couple of weeks ago I built a National Provider Identifier (NPI) lookup app as a proof of concept for the Vaadin portlet stuff we’re doing. For the [...]

Mar
12
By Rob Warner  //  No Comments

Check out my site later–I’ll remind you!

The creator of Faraday, the new calendar app for iPhone, posted about lessons learned from developing and publishing the app. It’s a good read, worthy of your [...]

Mar
12
By Rob Warner  //  No Comments

I’m calling it: Ubuntu is finally ready for the world.

I’m calling it: Ubuntu is finally ready for the world.: Following instructions from Linux geeks feels like trying to read Charles Dickens while having a stroke (Via [...]

Mar
9
By Rob Warner  //  No Comments

Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys

Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys: When Bill Joycreated the vi text editor he used the ADM-3A terminal, which had the arrows [...]

Mar
8
By Rob Warner  //  1 Comment

Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts ‘cloud’ in your house

Dropbox rival Space Monkey puts ‘cloud’ in your house: Space Monkey uses storage devices located at its users’ premises, not in data centers paid for by the [...]

Mar
8
By Rob Warner  //  No Comments

‘New Apple iPad Does Little to Fend Off Rivals’ Advance’

‘New Apple iPad Does Little to Fend Off Rivals’ Advance’: Even Research In Motion Ltd.’s much maligned BlackBerry PlayBook has seen some recent success after several discounts [...]

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