Nit-picking Google Chrome UI Design
What is the worst part of Chrome's user interface design? There is one candidate I'd like to nominate.The user interface to change the default font in Google's Chrome browser makes me cringe. To see...
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Intel CPU vs. NVidia GPU: Video transcoding
There are some new benchmarks that imply Intel’s new CPU (Sandy Bridge) may actually match dedicated GPUs at video transcoding.Intel today showed for the first time special new CPU instructions in...
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Live from New York
A Surface application I’ve been working on has just gone live to the public in Manhattan, NY. You can check it out at Bloomingdale’s in the Clinique area. All the real products you see in the photo...
View Article! The Beauty of Creating iPhone Apps
Most people would agree the iPhone is pretty far ahead of Windows Phone 7; however there is a harsh irony that is only known to developers who use both platforms. The irony is while the iPhone user...
View ArticleiPhone / iPad OAuth for LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter
Most apps these days have some kind of tie-in to a social network of sorts. Which means your iOS code has to potentially authenticate a user to many different services. The good news is there is a...
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iPhone OAuth Starter Kit for LinkedIn
I've created a starter project for using the LinkedIn Api via objective-c and the iPhone/iOS. I'm sharing this because I don't know of anywhere else you can get these in one place:One project with...
View ArticleQuantum Mechanics, Negative Entropy, and Super-fast Computers
The overlap of computer science and theoretical quantum physics grew a little today when the journal Nature published a very cool new paper from scientists in Zurich.What entropy means to software...
View ArticleStartup advice and scavenger hunts
People who are interested in startups are always in need of feedback because the ideas they come up with on the first, second, or 100th iteration will probably still have lots of flaws. Our need to...
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Five things to know before you start developing Windows 8 Metro apps
The only way to build a mobile tablet app for all versions of Windows 8 will be to use the new Metro application framework, and it’s much different than previous Microsoft platforms. Developing Metro...
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Offline Capabilities: Native Mobile Apps vs. Mobile Web Apps
Many mobile apps could benefit from working without an Internet connection. Here, we take a look at how offline capabilities affect the decision of developing native apps vs. mobile web based apps.Apps...
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Stack Overflow Mass and Momentum
When evaluating new platforms and frameworks it helps to know how active the developer community is and how much it's growing.I've created a query page here that shows technology activity over time at...
View ArticleWhy does AngularJS sometimes use single braces { }, sometimes double braces...
AngularJS is the highest trending JS MVC Framework right now with lots of people picking it up. However as elegant as angular is you have to come to terms with what all the braces mean and when to...
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Why I Don’t Recommend Xamarin for Mobile Development
Let me say right up front, I have a lot of respect for Xamarin as a company and for Miguel de Icaza as a developer and as a person. I like Microsoft, .NET, and C# and have used .NET since it’s...
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Accelerated Hybrid Mobile Apps: The Sweet Spot
The best way to develop mobile apps may be to combine native and hybrid architectures Amazon recently moved to provide direct support for HTML5 web apps in its app store. It makes one wonder why the...
View ArticleIf you Hate JavaScript it’s Due to Ignorance
If you are a developer who hates JavaScript it’s most likely due to ignorance, or because you value purity over pragmatism.As of 2013 there are important reasons for developers to understand the good...
View ArticleOpenCV and Tesseract OCR from Swift and iOS
I wasn’t able to find any Swift projects that make use of the wonderful OpenCV (computer vision/image processing) and Tesseract (OCR) libraries, so I’m making one available for you to play with. There...
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How to Choose an Android Minimum App Version / API Level
When building an Android app, how should you choose the minimum Android version? This choice determines the oldest version of Android that your app can be installed on. For example, if you choose a...
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Review: Xamarin in 2015 - Data Corruption and Swift are Not Helping
The Promise In 2011 when Xamarin was founded, if someone told me the story of a .NET and C# platform that could create native mobile apps I would have thought it sounded great. Objective-C was a...
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Apple’s Christmas Wish: Alexa Gets Lumps of Coal
It's unusual for Apple to find itself playing catchup. Amazon has relentlessly improved its Alexa and Echo products by mining two years of continuous customer feedback. Here's why it won't be easy for...
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Best Json Formatter in the World
Pretty JsonSince json is one of the most common data formats developers work with, we appreciate being able to easily read it.It follows that many tools try to make it pretty, or beautified, when...
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