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 [...]
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 [...]
One of my favorite websites, Worse Than Failure, today posted an article slamming the Agile Programming methodology. Their basic premise: Good people can build good software no matter what methodology they use. We don’t need a weight-loss pill for thin people; we need to solve the real problem behind failure in our industry. The bar for “acceptable� is far too [...]
So ProductDose has the scoop about the new half-height and double density improvement to the barcode, the DataBar. (though I’m not sure why, maybe because all their other stories are about items with barcodes?) While I think the ideas good, if you’re going to go through all the trouble of switching everything around, how about just biting the bullet and [...]
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 [...]
While the phrase “Software is Hardware, Hardware is Software” is perhaps not literally true; it does highlight a larger truth: that over time what were once hardware functions have increasingly become software ones. As part of Om Malik’s writeup of Akimbo’s decision to drop their actual hardware offering and become a software and service player in the online video space [...]
TechCrunch just posted about Guy Kawasaki’s newest venture: Truemors (I’m not including a link as all you get are annoying login messages at the moment). It was described as a “rumor reporting bulletin board with twitter-like capabilities.â€? Which sure hits the buzzwords nicely; really, is there a startup that is not trying to either: become the next twitter, subvert twitter, [...]
