Archive for April 2008

sapiosexuality

In Around The Web on 30 April 2008 with no comments

sahil:

sapiosexuality is defined as:

(n.) A behavior of becoming attracted to or aroused by intelligence and its use.

Origins: From the Latin root sapien, wise or intelligent, and Latin sexualis, relating to the sexes. Subscribe to my RSS feed!

Hillegass Cocoa Programming 3rd Edition Available Now

In Cocoa on 30 April 2008 with 2 comments

It’s been a long time coming, but the sequel to the greatest Cocoa programming book is now available to read online.

Available in paper May 16 but available now through the Safari online book service. Subscribe to my RSS feed!

Summize - The Google of Twitter Search

In Twitter on 29 April 2008 with no comments

If you are on Twitter (and if not, then why not, join and follow me!) you might want to search for certain topics to find new people to follow.

Since Tweets are here and gone in a flash, searching has still been pretty lame. Until now.

Summize is the way to search Twitter. [...]

That’ll Teach Them Pirates

In Marketing, Registration on 29 April 2008 with no comments

Ken Humbard’s Yummy Soup app has a particularly entertaining shut down message when it detects that it has been cracked (via the MacSB list).

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NSButt

In Twitter on 29 April 2008 with no comments

@rentzsch cracks me up:

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WWDC Mailer

In Apple, WWDC on 29 April 2008 with no comments

As they do every year, the deadline to get the early bird special price for WWDC has been extended by a couple of weeks.

The more important question, have you ever had an IPhone chat that reached this level of geekiness?

(From the WWDC promotional mailer) Subscribe to my RSS feed!

It Doesn’t Scale

In Around The Web on 26 April 2008 with no comments

Ted Dziuba:

“Engineers love to talk about scalability. It makes us feel like the bad ass, dick-swingin’ motherfuckers that we wish we could be.“ Subscribe to my RSS feed!

Learning From Coda

In Design on 24 April 2008 with no comments

If you are even struggling with how to setup a good user interface in your Cocoa app, take a look at anything from Panic.

The Panic guys really sweat the details, as you can see in the first screen you see when Coda starts:

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Turn Off the Internet

In Around The Web on 20 April 2008 with no comments

Scoble:

“Want to get something done? Turn off Twitter. Turn off Facebook. Turn off blog comments. Turn off FriendFeed. Turn off Flickr. Turn off YouTube. Turn off Dave Winer’s blog and Huffington Post. Turn off TechMeme.

Turn off the distractions.” Subscribe to my RSS feed!

Quiet, Please, Programming

In Around The Web on 16 April 2008 with no comments

Greg Moreno: “Programming is one of the most pleasurable moments any software developer will experience aside from sex. Unlike sex where you need at least 1 partner to enjoy it, programming requires an extensive period of time alone — something that is often forgotten even by fellow software developers.” Subscribe to my RSS feed!