Ever since Apple published their (remarkably readable) App Review Guidelines the number of ‘Oh My God. My App Got Rejected!’ stories I’ve seen on a weekly basis from iOS developers has fallen dramatically. Along with this, I’ve seen a shift in applications being rejected on technical grounds to applications being rejected on the basis of real or perceived Terms of [...]
An interesting aspect of StackOverflow is that they don’t require you to be logged in / registered or identified to the site in any way to ask a question (because early on Joel and Jeff determined that having a constant flow of new questions was vital to the success of the site). However, this policy has some interesting side effects: [...]
Sean Cribbs led a very wide ranging talk on how to manage and contribue to an open source project at last weeks Raleigh Ruby Camp. Some things really stuck out to me: 1. The move to Github quieted the number of people who thought they were heavy handed as they could just fork whenever they wanted. 2. Plugins as a [...]
I hadn’t checked out any of the FastCompany.TV ScobleShows. The one that caught my eye is below and features a tour and some extensive interviews with various Rackspace higher ups as they tour and discuss their reasoning for taking over an abandoned mall and making it into a new high tech data center. What I found most fascinating wasn’t the [...]
MacApper is running a contest for the best “switcher” story: someone ditching Windows for the Mac. Today’s entry was interesting, Joe Goh founder of FunkeeMonk a windows programmer turned Mac software developer. Personally, I was less interested in his “switching story”, than in the story of how he got started with his business. As near as I can tell, Joe [...]
Found this on John Battelle’s Searchblog, legal precedent has now been set letting Google searches for a person act as actionable information regarding employment. That seems to be the crucial part of the ruling here, because it essentially means it’s acceptable for employers (or at least the federal government, as an employer) to check out workers’ backgrounds online. The judges [...]
One of the things I did to help manage Fabjectory mentions on the Internet was to develop a mini application that pulled in search results from a couple different sources and let me track and report on my responses to them. To pull this off, I used a number of free API’s whose results I brought in, stored and reported [...]
Another disturbing development from the Mac Shareware front: Garrett Murray developed an application called xPad (stickies, text edit replacement) for OS X and was selling it as shareware. He agreed to sell the website, application and some other bits of intellectual property to Brian Ball of macZOT, a shareware promotion website. Sales apparently weren’t as brisk as Mr. Ball would [...]
RiffTrax looks awesome. I was a huge MST3K fan and throught that Mike Nelson was hilarious (screw you CowBoyNeal). It’s a good concept: Mike Nelson as sarcastic commentary track on any movie. I simply can’t tell you the number of times I wished there was a MST3K button on my remote. I’d press it and the silhouttes of Crow and [...]
I wrote a previous post about an Essential Feature of online feedreaders. Unfortunately, NewsAlloy doesn’t seem to be tackling the “switching cost” issue with any sense of urgency. This is really too bad as the interface seems very responsive and well thought out. Underlying this though it would seem that they don’t really want people to switch over and use [...]
