August 2011
5 posts
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"Streamlining" →
parislemon:
I’m sure it’s purely coincidental that just as iMessage is about to hit in iOS 5, AT&T is removing all of their lower-priced text messaging plans.
It’s not like the masses were about to rush to downgrade their rip-off SMS plans or anything.
Now it will be all or nothing — meaning most won’t downgrade. How weird, this timing.
A cynical person may think that AT&T are being...
Broken Bride: Story Teaser: Because I Felt Like... →
brokenbride:
Broken Bride is a love story. The kind where the main character learns something about himself and hopefully, eventually finds peace. Physicist meets paleontologist, they fall in love, paleontologist dies tragically, physicist moves into the garage, talks to himself, and lives off of Easy…
Broken Bride: How I Got Here (a poorly structured... →
brokenbride:
Hey everybody,
So I’ve been holed up in my office since I got back from my honeymoon in November, trying to write “Broken Bride” the novel.
I’m working in a sound-proof room (well, it’s sound-resistant) that I built myself in our basement. The ceiling down here is only 6 feet high (and…
An iOS Developer Takes on Android
nfarina:
Recently, we released the Android version of Meridian, our platform for building location-based apps.
We didn’t use one of these “Cross Platform!” tools like Titanium. We wrote it, from scratch, in Java, like you do in Android.
We decided it was important to keep the native stuff native, and to respect each platform’s conventions as much as possible. Some conventions are...
