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Old and new photos merged together. Brilliant. - akosma

Another programming language index - akosma

"submitted by reddit to blog." - akosma

While SQL databases are insanely useful tools, their monopoly of ~15 years is coming to an end. And it was just time: I can't even count the things that were forced into relational databases, but never really fitted them. But the differences between NoSQL databases are much bigger than it ever was between one SQL database and another. This means that it is a bigger responsibility on software architects to choose the appropriate one for a project right at the beginning. - akosma

"You're forced into this non-blocking style," Dahl says. "Anytime you want to talk to this remote back end or something, you have to give a callback. You can't say 'Database give me the result and then in the next line use the result.' You have to somehow have a callback, so you get indented a bit or you jump into a different function. - akosma

"JavaScript is based on Sun's programming language called Java"... no comments. - akosma

I bought a WebOS device and went to Taiwan. Now I understand why the Web on Mobile is a pretty big deal. - akosma

Interesting comparison of both platforms - akosma

Every Apple product ever, with HD photos. - akosma

Kiwi is a Behavior Driven Development library for iPhone and iPad development. The goal is to provide a BDD library that is exquisitely simple to setup and use. - akosma

Mobile Application Development with Sencha Touch - akosma

Sous ce titre qui peut paraitre provocateur se trouve un constat plutôt amère, d'autant plus amère que tout cela était prévisible depuis bien des années. L'Agile est devenu mainstream, on en parle régulièrement dans les journaux de décideurs (c'est bien la preuve de sa reconnaissance non ?), les développeurs disent le pratiquer au quotidien, les responsables de projet assurent en faire. Alors pourquoi ce pessimisme ? - akosma

“It’s not like Android’s free. Android has a patent fee. You do have to license patents.” - akosma

One notable omission in the iPhone SDK is the lack of a Web Services framework like WebServicesCore from the OSX SDK. Given the iPhone’s emphasis on online connectivity, it is at least surprising that there is no native framework stack for SOAP web services. So, what’s a developer to do? You have to roll your own. - akosma

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iOS contains a number of 'secret' debugging facilities, including environment variables, preferences, routines callable from GDB, and so on. This technote describes these facilities. If you're developing for iOS, you should look through this list to see if you're missing out on something that will make your life easier. - akosma

It’s no secret that the Mac App Store is a terrific new distribution channel for developers. Apple also provides plenty of documentation on how to prepare your app for submission. Unfortunately, there’s not much information on how to create a product that can also be distributed through more traditional channels, such as your own product website. This guide will help you update your Xcode projects to make it as simple as possible to create products for both channels simultaneously. - akosma

The purpose of this webpage is to provide information (a majority are secret or are hard to find) on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. It will mainly concentrate on the more feature rich iPhone, but sometimes information on the iPad and iPod Touch will be added if it is not too distracting. If you think you know all there is to know about the iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, read the following and you might learn a thing or two that you didn't know before. - akosma

Considering that he invented Twitter and is about to launch another potential game changer with his new company, Square, Jack Dorsey has one of the lowest profiles in tech. But from his childhood obsession (city maps) to his dream job (mayor of New York City), Dorsey’s eclectic, ascetic vision has focused on the flow of human interaction. David Kirkpatrick gets the press-shy visionary talking about his taxicab inspiration, his ejection as Twitter’s C.E.O., and his ambition to make Square the payment network of the future. - akosma

Collection of techniques for working with bitwise enums - akosma

Links to JSON parsers for iOS - akosma

This one is for authors and writers. Those who teach us how to use our tools and code in new programming languages. They ought to know what we think about their writings. Are you writing for programmers? Good. Stephen King once wrote his formula for good writing as: Read a lot. Write a lot[1]. Consider this a small contribution to your own Read a lot. - akosma

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Lately it seems more and more evident that the general population expects software to be free or at the very least cheap. This is reinforced when companies like Apple, who make a tremendous income off of their hardware, the iTunes store, and many other revenue streams, heavily discount their software. I’m thinking of the iWork suite in particular. - akosma

Working with software engineers is not quite this difficult, or (barring certain industries, like medical devices and air traffic control) potentially life-threatening. But it can be equally frustrating, if not more so. If you are a project manager, client, business developer, sales rep, recruiter, or belong to any other profession that regularly deals with them, you have your work cut out for you. What follows is my gift to you: a primer on working with software engineers for the everyman with no iPad and little understanding of what they do. - akosma

If you’ve worked at enough companies in the IT industry, you’ve probably noticed that the most talented software developers tend to not stick around at one place for too long. The least talented folks, on the other hand, entrench themselves deep within the organization, often building beachheads of bad code that no sane developer would dare go near, all the while ensuring their own job security and screwing up just enough times not to get fired. Earlier this month, Bruce F. Webster aptly named this phenomenon the Dead Sea Effect. Today, I’ll discuss a solution to overcoming it. In short: embrace turnover, encourage separation, and don’t even think about saying “careers, not jobs.” Oh yes, it’s Employment 2.0. - akosma

Company from the Swiss Post that issues SSL certificates - akosma

Instructions on how to install SSL certificates on Site5 - akosma

Imagine a widely used and expensive prescription drug that promised to make us beautiful but didn't. Instead the drug had frequent, serious side effects: It induced stupidity, turned everyone into bores, wasted time, and degraded the quality and credibility of communication. These side effects would rightly lead to a worldwide product recall. - akosma