February 2010
11 posts
Anonymous asked: If, for example, I was making an app that used a table view and when you tapped a cell in the table view, you would drill down to a fairly long (3-4 pages) scrollable view, how should the data be stored? Should I use just store the text in a simple UITextView or should I use a more code-based, complex system of storing the data? I will not be using anything other than text and will have many...
“Once you catch the UX disease, life changes. Doors open the wrong way. Machines...”
– Cennydd Bowles, via Twitter (via nikf)
Anonymous asked: Hello, I understand that you're living in Canada, but you're from UK.
Just wondering, how did you ended up there?
Is it because of your own immigration effort, or you're employed by a Canadian software company?
Just wondering, how did you ended up there?
Is it because of your own immigration effort, or you're employed by a Canadian software company?
“Would U.S. troops obey presidential orders to deploy against the American people...”
– The Troops Don’t Defend Our Freedoms (via marco)
Or to put it more simply: that’s their job. This is the armed forces we’re talking about. You’re taught to follow orders, not to question them (and for good reason). If the morally-active soldiers you see in movies like Avatar were...
“In a civil procedure on a technical matter, it amounts to blackmail; the cost of...”
– House of Lords: Record Companies have been harassing innocent users : DigitalWrong
Gawd bless the House of Lords sir. Gawd bless ‘em
Aside: This is why I’m heavily opposed to the House of Commons trying to abolish the House of Lords. The House of Lords doesn’t give...
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stevenf:
shutup.css is a custom user stylesheet you can install in your web browser which will automatically hide the comments section of many popular web sites. My gift of a quieter, saner web to you.
I’ve added a little tweak to work for C|Net News.com on my copy:
/* C|Net */
.commentwrapper {
display: none !important;
}
Also, an alert to any Tumblr users whose themes include...
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Tantalizing
mrgan:
In English, “tantalizing” means “arousing interest and desire”. It’s a good thing, a sort of Christmas-Eve teasing rich with the promise of eventual joy. A plot point in ABC’s ‘Lost’ may be tantalizing, a new restaurant going up in your neighborhood may post a tantalizing menu.
The word comes from Greek mythology, where Tantalus is a mortal who repulses the gods by serving them the...
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iPhone-to-iPad development: How's the timing going...
marco:
Either I’m missing something, the initial iPad apps are going to suck, or we haven’t yet been told that iPad-native apps won’t be available for some period of time after the iPad’s launch.
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The problem, of course, is that before day one, we won’t have iPads ourselves for development and testing. … [I]f we want our apps to be in the store at its launch, we have to do the...
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Agency, Pricing and the Seven Things Publishers... →
A detailed post from Michael Tamblyn of Kobo about the pricing metrics of eBook publishing, particularly focussing on the agency model being proposed by Macmillan, to which Amazon ‘capitulated’ after cutting them off over the weekend.
Michael includes some interesting information for those following Amazon’s line on the Agency pricing model, particularly this snippet countering...