Archive for November, 2009
Monday, November 16th, 2009
Speaking of Hewitt and the app store approval process, Steve O'Grady chimes in with his two cents. This point in particular caught my attention:
Ultimately, Hewitt and I might differ on the potential value add of middlemen, because I am a firm believer in the value of marketplaces and centralized distribution. ...
Posted in Apple, Software |
Monday, November 16th, 2009
This might make a lot of people happy.
Posted in Apple, Software |
Monday, November 16th, 2009
The Coathangr iPhone app was rejected today for using private APIs.
The following non-public APIs are included in your application:
firstResponder
UITouch._previousLocationInWindow,
UITouch._tapCount,
UITouch._timestamp,
UITouch._touchFlags,
UITouch._view
UITouch._window
A quick Google search confirmed my suspicions: the Three20 library is to blame.
Three20, if you're unaware, is the library that the Facebook iPhone app is built on. Joe Hewitt, the man responsible ...
Posted in Apple, Social, Software, Web |
Friday, November 13th, 2009
Do you like seeing shit in a box get removed from said box? This is the site for you.
Posted in Video, Web |
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
David Pogue on Verizon:
That is, if you get a BlackBerry, Android or similar phone from Verizon, and you decide to switch phones before your two-year contract is up, you’ll be socked with a $350 penalty (it used to be $175)
What, you thought AT&T was the only phone company out to ...
Posted in Business |
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Matt Martel speaks up for the rest of us.
We work on the iPhone platform because it is awesome and cool and offers an amazing opportunity. We hate the Apple approval process just as much as the next guy, but at the end of the day developing for the iPhone far ...
Posted in Apple |
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
So true.
Posted in Television |
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Fontspotting may be old hat for the type nerds, but this Macworld article by Jay J. Nelson serves as a good "so you want to learn to care about typography" pamphlet.
Posted in Design |
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Of course they did.
Not because Fox is stupid (they are) or because they have a history of tanking quality, fan-favorite shows (they do), but because Dollhouse deserved to be cancelled.
Joss Whedon's work is entertaining because his characters have interesting relationships, and the dialogue is clever and fun. While Dollhouse had ...
Posted in Television |
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Kottke posted a fun story explaining his Amazon linking policy. In the spirit of such disclosure, I'll call out my own, similar policy.
Any time you see an Amazon link on Better Elevation, rest assured that my affiliate code is in there. I don't do quite the traffic that Kottke does, ...
Posted in Business, Web |
Monday, November 9th, 2009
Forbes follows the trend of covering this story without mentioning "jailbroken" in the headline.
Posted in Apple |
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Fraser Hess shares his thoughts on why version control is important, even if no one else is watching.
The most unexpected (and incredibly positive) side effect was that once I started using version control, the quality of my code went up dramatically.
We use Git for all Massively Overrated projects. I don't know ...
Posted in Software |
Friday, November 6th, 2009
Bizarrely honest.
(Via Gus Mueller)
Posted in Video |
Friday, November 6th, 2009
He gets really great reviews.
Posted in Web |
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Sometimes people ask stupid questions. Sometimes the Internet answers them.
(Via Aaron Bailey)
Posted in Social, Web |