December 2010
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Pit →
Pit is a command-line project manager that integrates with Git.
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Accessibility for iPhone and iPad apps →
Very good article by Matt Gemmell…
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Apple publishes six free e-books for developers →
The six developer guides may not be of much interest to non-coders, unless you’re simply gaga for titles like iOS Human Interface Guidelines, Object Oriented Programming With Objective-C, or Cocoa Fundamentals Guide. The other three titles are The Objective-C Programming Language, iOS Technology Overview, and its thrilling sequel iOS Application Programming Guide.
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Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us →
Time to switch to PinBoard, you guys.
dhotson:
So sad. ’-(
As usual, there’s more discussion mourning going on over at hacker news.
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How can a new programmer impress the software... →
Question:
Hi,
I’m working at my first programming job. My boss is a very smart software engineer, and I feel like I have very little to offer compared to him. Problem is, he is always busy, and needs someone to help him out. I feel like I’m not good enough, but I still want to succeed. I want to be a great programmer.
What can I do to impress him?
Thank you.
Answer by Joel:
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Top 50 Programming Quotes of All Time →
Some of my favorite ones:
“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.” - Rick Cook.
“They don’t make bugs like Bunny anymore.” - Olav Mjelde.
“Fine, Java MIGHT be a good example of what a...
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2 + 2 = 5 →
The phrase “two plus two equals five” (“2 + 2 = 5”) is a slogan used in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as an example of an obviously false dogma one must believe, similar to other obviously false slogans by the Party in the novel. (via Larson)
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iOS Fonts - A Place for Happy Typography →
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Untranslatability →
Untranslatability is a property of a text, or of any utterance, in one language, for which no equivalent text or utterance can be found in another language. Terms are, however, neither exclusively translatable nor exclusively untranslatable; rather, the degree of difficulty of translation depends on their nature, as well as on the translator’s abilities.
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I guess, Tumblr is like an iPhone: 25 percent drop out rate and we still love...
– create.live.love
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46.59.1.2
There is an internet without DNS - especially without EveryDNS.
And there is a world without amazon possible - even if it means you have to leave your house to buy stuff… WikiLeaks is still available :-)
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Xeround →
Xeround is an elastic, always-on database that lets you run your existing MySQL-based application in the cloud.
Xeround (pronounced zeh-round) is a service that seamlessly replaces your existing MySQL database and lets you run it in the cloud, scale it up or out on demand and maintain high availability, even in the event of failure. Currently, you can run your database on Amazon Web...
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SitePoint: What’s New in Firebug 1.6 →
Do you remember life in the dark days before Firebug? For many years, Internet Explorer only provided a dumb pop-up box with vague messages such as “Object not an instance of an Object at line 0.” The early Firefox and Opera consoles helped, but only for JavaScript issues.
It’s no exaggeration that Firebug revolutionized client-side coding. Many applications would never have been built without...
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The History of CSS Resets →
elastic threads: Thoughts on Reeder for Mac →
elasticthreads:
Reeder for Mac draft 1 was released last night, and I’ve been testing it out. You can download it here. You can read more about it here. The UI is beautiful and interesting, and Reeder shows a lot of promise. As a long-time NetNewsWire user/fan I have to say this is the first Mac RSS client…
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Create A Custom UINavigationBar Style →
quanganhdo:
With method swizzling you can substitute function implementations for certain functions like drawRect: and easily create a very custom look.