June 2009
24 posts
All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions →
In programming, abstractions are powerful things: Joel Spolsky has an article in which he states All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. This is overly dogmatic -…
Jun 30th
Coding Horror: The iPhone Software Revolution →
Jun 25th
IPhone 3GS JavaScript Performance Blows Away... →
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Jun 25th
Verifying that a string contains an email address... →
To celebrate the official release of iPhone OS 3.0 this week, I will show you how to verify that an NSString contains a syntactically valid email address using NSPredicate — a class that joins the…
Jun 23rd
iPhone 3G S Benchmarks: Up to 4x Faster than 3G →
We recently pointed readers to a performance comparison between the iPhone 3G S and the iPhone 3G carried out by Daniel Pasco of Black Pixel.  The test application was a pre-release build of …
Jun 23rd
The Mobile Web is Different From the Regular Web →
Summary of how companies like VW ‘get’ the mobile web.
Jun 23rd
Stack Overflow Developer Lair →
Remember Stack Overflow Valued Associate #00002? Me neither. Until I saw these photographs of his developer lair, that is: Never let it be said that I don’t practice what I preach — or…
Jun 22nd
Think your dataset is large? Search this! →
Interview with developer at Rackspace and how they use Hadoop
Jun 20th
The Real Lessons From Twitter →
Good article from director of engineering at Odeo, from which Twitter came.
Jun 19th
Interesting Questions Raised by Iranian Twitter... →
Development (4:10 PM CST): The State Department has been in contact with Twitter to make sure that the service remained available for protestors in Iran. (reuters) Last Friday, Twitter started…
Jun 17th
TED interviews Clay Shirky about Iran and Twitter →
related: Clay’s TED talk from last month at the State Department  
Jun 17th
IPhone 3.0 jailbreak and unlock already done by... →
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Jun 17th
Session Attacks and ASP.NET - Part 1 →
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Jun 17th
Interesting Questions Raised by Iranian Twitter... →
Development (4:10 PM CST): The State Department has been in contact with Twitter to make sure that the service remained available for protestors in Iran. (reuters) Last Friday, Twitter started…
Jun 17th
Trending Topics: Hot Wikipedia Topics - Powered by... →
Site built using Wikipedia logs, Hadoop, Hive, EC2, S3, and Rails
Jun 12th
Rails Edge Architecture (Rails 3) →
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Jun 11th
Lightning Strike Triggers Amazon EC2 Outage →
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Jun 11th
iPhone 3G S supports OpenGL ES 2.0, but 3G only... →
When we were breaking down the meaty differences between the old-school 3G and the 3G S yesterday, we made an assumption about support for OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics APIs in the original…
Jun 10th
Coding Horror: Unix is Dead, Long Live Unix →
Jun 8th
First impressions of couchdb →
using couchdb to store large amounts of reporting data
Jun 5th
Heroku | Radiant CMS in 5 Minutes Or Less →
Radiant on Heroku
Jun 5th
Security hole found in Rails 2.3's... →
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Jun 4th
China's success at erasing history →
James Fallows reports that China has been very successful in erasing the Tiananmen Square protests from the official record. I have spent a lot of time over the past three years with Chinese…
Jun 3rd
Homeless people and the Internet →
The Wall Street Journal’s Phred Dvorak has a thought-provoking feature on the use of laptops and Internet services by homeless people, who, like everyone else, use them for civic engagement with…
Jun 1st