They don't teach you this in college, but the fundamental theorem of the software industry is the idea that...

Data, Context and Interaction (DCI) is a paradigm used in computer programming. The pattern separates the domain model (Data) from...

The hatred of the users for the Internet Explorer browser has reached such a height that now a Voodoo Doll...

Speech bubble icons have become synonymous with comments. When creating yet another one for a standard comment link, it occurred...

Imagine clicking “send” for an email message and watching your message appear in a brief queue. Perhaps it counts down...

Categorically that the most expensive question a manager can ask is "What are you working on?"

We’re not in the age of CD-ROMs now. Our price-points are all over the shop, and a...

The way you improve your iPad isn't to figure out how it works and making it better. The way...

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...

Code up top for quick reference, details down below—we’ll prepare typefaces for use on the web, go through...

Either way, nobody likes stepping in shit. And nobody likes cleaning up shit. So the whole interaction starts off on...

They can ship their own product and give it away till you go bust, then start charging for it; and...

It’s hard to build a business on a platform where you feel like you cannot trust the men in...

You know how you tell when an app for the iPhone was written in MonoTouch? It doesn’t leak memory...

What happens if the iPhone application you’ve based a business on is found to depend on a library that...

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...

Steak is like Cucumber but in plain Ruby.