When I first heard about plans to create a word processor for web browsers I was really skeptical, mostly because I feared too see clones of real applications that don’t add anything new and maybe even struggle to replicate the originals performance and feature set. However, after playing around with Writely for a while, I’m […]
Apple has posted a guide on moving a project from CodeWarrior to Xcode which every Mac developer should read in order to get ready for Intel Macs next year (as early as January as the latest rumors suggest).
As Apple transitions the Mac platform to include the Intel architecture, software developers who have been using the […]
The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the worldwide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors. Here’s the current top ten:
1. Java 22.267% +7.46%
2. C 18.361% +0.37%
3. C++ 10.804% -3.06%
4. PHP 10.780% +3.19%
5. (Visual) […]
Do you develop for yourself or for your target audience? In case you’re not the main user of what you create, here’s a friendly reminder to make technology simple and not just expand your feature set to impress your friends and a small group of geeks. From the following article:
This leads me into my main […]
Do you miss the times when you were visually hunting for a music album that reflected your current mood? While there’s support for album covers in iTunes, the problem is that you just see the album of the current song you’ve selected, so it’s not exactly helpful to get that special visual feeling you had […]
Technology companies have turned “beta” into a long-term label, with some products and Web services remaining in test mode for months, or even years. A marketing professor says, “I can’t come up with anything else in the entire marketing world where marketers knowingly introduce a flawed or inadequate product and it helps grow your user […]
Apple just released the Broadband Tuner. It allows you to take full advantage of very high-speed Internet connections that have a high latency (5 Mbps or greater), but can be used for slower broadband connections as well. The little installer tweaks some system parameters:
What does the Broadband Tuner do exactly?
The installer increases the default values […]
Edit: Version 1.2 is out, more info and download link over here.
As announced a few hours ago, here’s the second OS X Code (r,s) application based on Platypus. The name of the app is phpPackageScan and while I’ve created the app for myself, it should be useful for almost any PHP developer out there that […]
Ever wondered how many files and functions there are in some of the biggest web-applications? How many classes, lines of code and other useful stats? Last week I was struggling to find a WordPress function that made some problems with one of the WordPress plugins I’m making, so I decided to make an OS X […]
Ok, this is really cool. Have a look at the video on this site. It’s an application called Filegazer that lets you browse your filesystem like a menu and it lets you preview most of your pictures, movies and text files directly while you browse through your files.
This app is one of those things you […]
A podcast (and transcript) of an interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. He talks about his vision of “part two” of the web (not to confuse with Web 2.0), called the Semantic Web. For those of you that didn’t follow the semantic web idea, let’s hear what Tim has […]
Everything becomes tagged these days, but are there any negative consequences that could arise or that already materialized? Liz Lawley from a group weblog on social software writes:
Unfortunately, too many of the paeans to tagging that I’ve read have completely ignored some of the key social and cultural issues associated with public and collaborative labeling […]
To gain maximum knowledge of the network world, go for some online courses like N10-003 and SY0-101. You will easily be able to play with the wireless cable concept. It will not be hard to install a computer software without any instructions. Not only this, you will also be able to work on a remote pc software. Sounds too good? Bet it is!
