I always though about this, and never knew the answer to the question until now. This is what surprised me the most:
I have heard that it can take a new engineer at Google anywhere from 3-6 months to become accustomed to using these tools and services.
It requires lot of cash to have a developer at less than 100% for 6 months! This will someday come back and bite them in the butt.
(Via TechCrunchIT.)
Mark Shuttleworth:
Can we not only emulate, but can we blow right past Apple?
The problem with most Linux developers is that they want to make things because they are “cool” not because the regular Joe(target market for mass adoption) would find it practical. I doubt that well see anything that “blows right past Apple”, but I still like to be surprised!
BTW, hasn’t Ubuntu been trying to do this for a while?
(Via eWeek.)
I saw “The Dark Knight” this past weekend and couldn’t help notice some parallels with the original Batman. Now I find this:
It’s the trailers for both Batman and The Dark Knight in parallels.
“Let’s put a smile on that face!”
Brent Simmons approach to “incremental” software development:
Deleting features has always been a big part of the way I work on NetNewsWire — in some ways, it’s my favorite part, since clutter is the death of software.
This is why I am confident that NetNewsWire will remain my RSS reader for time to come.
(Via Inessential.)
This is a test post from my iPhone!
The post funtion is not that cool and the app could use a better UI flow. But hey, at least it’s open source, though I couldn’t find the code(they have a post saying they would release it when it goes 1.0, that happened but still no code)
Btw the About section, in the iPhone as well as the iTunes descrption says that the app’s address is iPhone.wordpress.net even when it is clearly a .org. What’s up with that?
Anyhow, thanks for the app Matt!
As we saw with earlier iPhone releases, Apple is adding “hidden” features in keyboard buttons, like foreign letters or in this case URL terminations like “.edu” or “.org”.
I am all for making things easier and typing less, but what is the visual cue for this? Can developers do this on any button, or does it have to be a keyboard button? Should a corner of the button have a little mark? Doesn’t seem intuitive enough for me since I learned about it on Gizmodo!
(Via Gizmodo.)
Their site reads:
Yuma is a powerful new web scripting tool. It features a strongly-typed, object oriented language with clear, clean syntax and native compiled-to-machine-code speeds on Macintosh, Windows, and Linux.
Like PHP and ASP, Yuma is an HTML preprocessor. You build web applications by embedding executable Yuma code in your HTML documents. The Yuma server compiles that code on the fly and serves the results with impressive speed.
Have any of you heard of a language called Ruby and a great framework for it called Rails(even DJANGO or Symphony for that matter)?
Why would anybody go into an embedded scripting language in 2008. MVC is taking over the web! Besides, who would even dare to learn a proprietary web development language…..oh wait.
Trying to learn something like Yuma is like punching yourself in the nose, while using a nicely padded glove. It will eventually hurt like hell!
I love how John Gruber chases details this small but which are really meaningful.
(Via Daring Fireball.)
Cool article from Paul Stamatiou describing how to use your MediaTemple account for an SSH tunnel with Meerkat. Simple and effective interweb security.
(Via PaulStamatiou.com.)