If memory-starved tablets become ubiquitous, we’re looking at a future in which there are “normal” computers, and then...
So what Apple does not want is for some other company to establish a de facto standard software platform on...
Apple puts itself in an untenable position trying to play gatekeeper while simultaneously having such a broad and deep marketplace...
Either way, nobody likes stepping in shit. And nobody likes cleaning up shit. So the whole interaction starts off on...
It’s hard to build a business on a platform where you feel like you cannot trust the men in...
What happens if the iPhone application you’ve based a business on is found to depend on a library that...
I’m a principled person. Apple’s offended my principles. Consequently, I’ve decided to abandon iPhone development. I won...
If you need to "originally" write your code in Swahili, while listening to Milli Vanilli, while reclining in a patch...
Though we ended up switching to what I consider to be a technically superior product based on simplicity, we arrived...
Unfortunately vanilla Ruby modules lack support for many idioms popular in modern Ruby. Most importantly, we have become accustomed to...
Next in our series on not shooting yourself in the foot: Doing a sudo shutdown -h now on the main...
I love Cucumber, but I hate writing step definitions. They are ugly, awkward to write and very, very boring: Most...
Rails plugin which adds a convenient way to override attr_accessible protection.... You can mark certain attributes as trusted for...
Pretty much everyone who claims to have a REST API, in fact, does not. The closest I’ve found is...
When so many obviously spammy and trademark-infringing apps are getting through, it makes every trivial rejection by real developers...
The Aves Engine is a software development kit to generate spectacular isometric browsergames without the need for third-party plugins...
This seriously limits the kinds of applications you can develop on the iPhone. One notable exception, however, is the support...
"You're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes...
But then there are those posts where the author pastes 10 pages of confused code with no context whatsoever and...
ShamRack mounts a Rack app locally, just for your tests. It goes one further: it “mounts” it using Net::HTTP...
Seems like there's no way to do it in Capybara, unfortunately. But if you're running your tests with...
Because javascript has something called "Hoisting" which makes your code do things it doesn't look like it should be...
When is a global variable not a variable? When it is a property of the global object.