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The Death of Files by Dustin Curtis The iPhone OS completely removes the concept of a “file.” It promotes apps to being the primary level of user interaction, and it stores related things inside databases that are content-specific. When you pick up your iPhone and want to view photos, you open the Photos app, which […]
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Launch MAMP without Password Was annoyed by MAMP inquiring for my password at every startup. Did a little Google work and found the solution: two Applescripts. Difficulty level: Novice. Time: 1 minute. Satisfaction: Achieved.
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Project Oolong: The Sencha Website Redesign Dave Kaneda wrote about our website redesign for the Sencha Blog. This is definitely a sophisticated website workflow: Git versioned, SASS compiled, and with some clever JS magic to make sure it works in all browsers. Read all about it!
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The Swimmer by John Cheever Nice short story.
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Jobs Talks About His Rise and Fall — Newsweek One of the best Steve Jobs interviews I’ve ever read.
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Gene Roddenberry’s original pitch for Star Trek The 16-page first draft of Gene Roddenberry’s pitch for Star Trek. STAR TREK is a “Wagon Train” concept – built arround characters who travel to worlds “similar” to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which becomes our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser “S.S. Yorktown”, performing a well-defined […]
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Comparison of Star Trek and Star Wars I love that this Wikipedia entry exists.
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Comparison of Star Trek and Star Wars I love that this Wikipedia entry exists.
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List of CSS Cursors for WebKit Need this every now and then. Thought I had archived it here but I guess not…
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Differing Border-Radius for iPhone Icons Thank god for Forrst for things like this madness: different border-radius for the different sizes of iOS icons. Oy.
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Useful iTunes Smart Playlists Peter Hosey shares how he funnels lots of music into limited storage.
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Love mobile dev? Live in the Bay Area? Let’s kick it. Come hang out with me, David Kaneda, and the Sencha crew in our Palo Alto offices tomorrow. We’ll be hacking on Sencha Touch from 1 to 5pm.
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How to Develop a Rich, Native-quality User Experience for Mobile Using Web Standards Dave Kaneda for WebKitBits: This is the presentation I gave last week at Web 2.0, in which I discussed some of the ways to take a web page, and make it feel more like an application using HTML5, CSS3, and a variety […]
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Internet Explorer usage falls below 50% Finally!
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Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator cameronmoll: This will look familiar to Photoshop users. /via @bbodien