Like all developers, I hate giving estimates as to how long it will take to write some code or fix it. The real problem is that you can’t really honestly know how long it will take something until you’ve solved all the known-unknown and (worse) unknown-unknown problems. And by that time, well–you’re done. There are, [...]
Anatomy Of A Feature
I forgot how much I hated Windows Mobile.
I just got a DS409+ from Synology. What a perfect little unit for a small business! The upshot of this is that for about $1500 you can have a 6TB RAID-5 box which allows you to run a small local web site (and runs PHP, so you can install a blog or wiki), allows you [...]
It appears to be H in HSV space for Apple’s standard color. I thought 210° was just the magic number for iPhone software: the gray-blue color that appears throughout the UI is variations of H=210°. But it also appears that the Apple Mail application uses the same light blue-gray color for the side panel, and [...]
I’m not quite sure I’m happy with it. But it’s better than the plain Jane theme I was using before. Borrowed from wordpressthemesbase.com.
At work an interesting tempest in a teapot arose. And in my personal hacking life, another tempest in a teapot. The former I cannot discuss. The latter, however, I can: my little protest in code has come to bite me on the ass. Or rather, more specifically, it has come to bite another poor fellow [...]
Verizon Drafts Developers Into Mobile Software War on Apple The companies appear to be responding to Apple, which announced this morning that its iPhone App Store, now only one year old, has surpassed 1.5 billion downloads and is serving 65,000 applications. “The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both [...]
Actually, it’s not my fault. I got the following message from Al Jeyapal, pointing out the error of my ways. From: Al Jeyapal To: woody@chaosinmotion.com Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:29:36 +1000 Subject: BerUTC Parsing in ASN.1 Library G’day mate, I’m not sure if you’re still maintaining the code for this library, but thought I’d [...]
John Gruber: Google’s Microsoft Moment It makes no sense to me why Chrome OS isn’t based on Android. Maybe there’s a good answer to this, but Google hasn’t given it. While I don’t understand why Google has two completely separate operating systems, one based on Davlik (a Java VM clone) and another based on Javascript [...]