created 04 August 2009 in links tagged programming, python and ruby.
These languages are interchangeable, especially for building web application. Neither are more awesome. They get the job done and they make programmers happy,
Amen. via Marco.
http://rapd.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/python-vs-ruby-sligh...
created 04 August 2009 in links tagged chemisty and danger.
Death! Disaster! Organic chemistry! It’s also worth reading the ‘How not to do it’ category.
http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_w...
created 31 July 2009 in links tagged apple, hate and iphone.
stevenf, unlike me, is prepared to take the pain of using something that isn’t the iPhone, simply because of the situation with the store.
after an entire year of continuous bad decisions that are hostile to developers and consumers alike, we’ve moved on from “working out the kinks” to good old-fashioned getting fucked
He’s moving to the Palm Pre. That’s not even an option in the UK yet, and even once they appear, I won’t be able to get an unlocked one.
Here’s a thought - none of the angry screeds I’m reading are because someone wants background apps, or a hardware keyboard, or any of the stuff that people seem to think we’re missing. They’re angry at the store.
http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/152606616/important-note-r...
created 24 July 2009 in links tagged development, iphone and mono.
the agreement to become an iPhone developer requires that the developer do not use any scripting engines or JIT technologies.
To satisfy these technical and legal requirements, MonoTouch is delivered as a static compiler that turns .NET executables and libraries into native applications. There is no JIT or interpreter shipped with your application, only native code.
created 10 July 2009 in links tagged newspapers and spying.
more-or-less every newspaper employed journalists whose specific skill was to obtain private phone records, or ex-directory telephone numbers or other confidential personal information
Of course, I suspect the gutter press aren’t being killed by the internet, only ‘serious’ news outlets. Not that I really care.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2009...
created 10 July 2009 in links tagged newspapers.
Very long.
The New York Times, via its reporters acting as proxies, steals documents. It violates laws that everyone else must follow. It uses the information in these documents to sell newspapers, and profits by it. And most important, it uses this process to exercise political power [..] The fact that the Times may commit this class of crime with impunity, while I can’t and you can’t, enables it (with the true press, of course, as a whole) to act as almost a sovereign force. [..] This is considered a normal and ethical practice in early 21st-century journalism. It is actually a criminal practice, which any other century would recognize as such.
In certain lights, the death of newspapers and journalism by the hand of the internet doesn’t look so bad. I’m also starting to consider Unqualified Reservations to be a very dangerous blog to read. I’m a suggestible person.
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/06/crim...
created 08 July 2009 in links tagged iphone, javascript, jquery and mobile.
File under ‘things to look at in my week off’, it’s another IUI-like library for doing iPhone web applications
created 08 July 2009 in links tagged chrome, google and os.
Now Google have another operating system. I guess this is their plan - keep introducing new and weirder operating systems / platforms until the OS market is so fragmented that the web is the only platform that has significant market share.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google...
