iRonic: Super Meat Boy for iPhone
Apple puts itself in an untenable position trying to play gatekeeper while simultaneously having such a broad and deep marketplace structure. It's like watching a character from Alice in Wonderland attempt to beat Kurt Godel at a game of chess by trying to change the rules faster than those rules can be exploited.
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Derek Powazek - Thoughts on Designing for iPad
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Always show all form errors during development
You've been there: A form cannot be submitted, but you don't see a validation error because the field at fault has no corresponding input field on the form. Because this is usually a bug, you insert debug information listing all errors into the fo...
Remove resource fork files from a FAT volume on MacOS
Be careful!
The following solution will delete files on a volume. If you don't know exactly what you're doing, you can run into big trouble with your computer.
I play mp3 files on my car stereo that are stored on a SD-C...
Knowing .NET » Blog Archive » The Absurdity of Apple’s New iPhone Restrictions
You know how you tell when an app for the iPhone was written in MonoTouch? It doesn’t leak memory.
I’m Abandoning iPhone Development. Mobile Orchard To Stop Publication.
I’m a principled person. Apple’s offended my principles. Consequently, I’ve decided to abandon iPhone development. I won’t work in this ask-permission environment any longer.
Daring Fireball: Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1
So what Apple does not want is for some other company to establish a de facto standard software platform on top of Cocoa Touch. Not Adobe’s Flash. Not .NET (through MonoTouch). If that were to happen, there’s no lock-in advantage.
The Independent Gaming Source
A week after Tommy Refenes (Super Meat Boy) declared the Apple App Store to be the Tiger Electronics handheld of this generation (part of the Indie Game Maker Rant session), Apple has removed his zit-popping game Zits & Giggles from the App Store....
Communities Dominate Brands: Full Analysis of iPhone Economics - it is bad news. And then it gets worse
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Here’s what we’ve learned about doing UI for mobile web apps with WebKit
Lately, we’ve been exploring ways to offer web apps that perform like native apps on mobile devices. For this short sprint we targeted mobile WebKit browsers—especially the default browsers on iOS and Android—because of their widespread use and ex...
Read your mail in networks that forbid e-mail traffic
If you are connected with a network that forbids e-mail traffic but allows SSH, you can tunnel your e-mail connection through a trusted, intermediary server:
sudo ssh -i /home/local-user/.ssh/local-user.key -L 143:mail-server.tld:143 remote-...