- Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site
Great tips on building non-native iPhone apps.
(categories: iphone javascript mobile optimization ) - google-caja – Google Code
Caja (pronounced "KA-ha") is "virtual iframes": it allows you to put untrusted third-party HTML and JavaScript inline in your page and still be secure. Caja
(categories: scripting widgets xss opensource )
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Links: 10-26-2008
- Coding Horror: The One Thing Every Software Engineer Should Know
Quote: "Just because you’re a marketer doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a marketing weasel. Sure, the two things are highly correlated — but at its core, marketing is little more than an intermediate level course on fundamental human communication. Not something us programmers have historically been so great at. "
(categories: software programming marketing engineering ) - Product Parenting
Mostly about product management. Quote: "Unlike your coworkers, software products deserve to be treated very much like children. They’re rebellious and wayward. They need to be given strict boundaries and lots of guidance."
(categories: productmanagement management software business ) - Google Enterprise website search solutions
Sheesh. If you want to develop against a Google Search Appliance, you pay $5k, attend onsite training and complete a certification and then… then they’ll send you one of the appliances. Retarded.
(categories: google enterprise search certification ) - BibliOdyssey: River Deep Mountain High
Some wicked cool maps / infoviz showing the relative heights of mountains and rivers.
(categories: visualization maps mapping rivers mountains ) - WordPress › Blog » The Visual Design of 2.7
I really like the dashboard. The top two widgets on that page (stats, right now) are money.
(categories: ui interface design blogs wordpress usability )
Links: 10-15-2008
- Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
Quote: "Now the bad news. None of the users had heard of OpenID before, and none of them even noticed the OpenID sign-in box displayed below the traditional email/password login form on the site. In many cases, the test subjects entered their Yahoo email address and Yahoo password to try to log in. We had told the test subjects that they could sign into the site using their Yahoo! account without having to register."
(categories: openid ux usability research fail ) - Rands In Repose: The Culture Chart
Quote: "Unlike the org chart, you’re not going to find the culture chart written down anywhere. It doesn’t exist. The culture chart is an unwritten representation of the culture of your company and understanding it answers big questions that you must know: * What does this organization value? * Who created this value system? * Given this value system, who contributes high value? * Who is most aware of how value is being created?"
(categories: strategy software culture value )
Links: 10-14-2008
- The Programming Aphorisms of Strunk and White – Coding the Wheel
Good stuff on programming from a book about writing.
(categories: writing quality programming softwareengineering style simplicity )
Links: 10-11-2008
Links: 10-8-2008
- Thoughts on the Financial Crisis – O’Reilly Radar
Quote: We don’t know yet how problems in the overall economy will affect our business. But what we can do now are the things we ought to be doing anyway: * Work on stuff that matters: Assuming that the world does go to hell in a handbasket, what would we still want to be working on? * Exert visionary leadership in our markets. In tough times, people look for inspiration and vision. The big ideas we care about will still matter, perhaps even more when people are looking for a way forward. (Remember how Web 2.0 gave hope and a story line to an industry struggling its way out of the dotcom bust.) * Be prudent in what we spend money on. Get rid of the "nice to do" things, and focus on the "must do" things to accelerate them.
These are all things we should be doing every day anyway. Sometimes, though, a crisis can provide an unexpected gift, a reminder that nobody promised us tomorrow, so we need to make what we do today count.
(categories: strategy economy future business quotes )
Links: 10-7-2008
- Ok Entrepreneurs, Time to Step Up
Quote (from comments): "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." – Ann Bradstreet 1655
(categories: quotes business )
Links: 10-2-2008
- The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Writing Your First iPhone Application
Check the free ‘Getting Started with Xcode and Interface Builder’ movie for a good start.
(categories: iphone screencast documentation )
Links: 10-1-2008
- scottberkun.com » How to run a bug bash
Good stuff on bug bashes. Funny though: we started bug bashes on Clearspace last year, I had no idea that bug bash actually has it’s own wikipedia page.
(categories: testing software quality qa ) - ongoing · Next POTUS
Quote: "You might push back, saying “It’s not him, he just hired the right experts” and I’d point out that the single most important skill in a successful executive is recruiting and team-building." Not making a policital statement one way or the other, but I think there’s a lot of truth there.
(categories: leadership politics ) - iPhone in the Enterprise: Lotus iNotes Ultralite – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Lotus made a web-based client for the iPhone. Read the comments to see why the whole "we did a web-based app for security reasons" is a bunch of baloney.
(categories: notes iphone lotus )
Links: 9-30-2008
- Focus on Things Under Your Control
Quote: Fear and anxiety comes from lots of places, including fatigue, misinformation, and the endless blathering on of talking heads on the television. If you start feeling your anxiety level increase because of things you have no ability to influence, step back and reconsider how you are spending your time. Go for walk around the block and enjoy a nice October afternoon. Take your best friend out to lunch at a restaurant you’ve never been too. Get a good night’s sleep. Take a deep breath and – as my dad once told me, focus on things under your control.
(categories: focus life ) - Website Optimizer
Google now offers A/B and multivariate testing. Nice.
(categories: a/b testing experiments experimentation )