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Google's Android platform: not so open after all am 17. Juli 2008 unter android google mobile

Third-party Android application developers, who have grown increasingly frustrated with the lack of SDK updates, were shocked to discover that Google has been secretly making new versions of the Android SDK available to the Android Developer Challenge (AD

The Database Programmer: The Wonderful Awful Browser am 15. Juli 2008 unter design programming usability

When a desktop programmer tries to write database applications for the browser, he faces a great many challenges, both technical and cultural. Both sets of challenges appear because the browser and the web were invented for purposes different than our own

Dr Nic » 8 steps for fixing other people’s code am 13. Juli 2008 unter opensource programming

So here’s how to fix other people’s code. It has Ruby-specific examples, but I’m sure the process is the same in all OSS communities.

SEOmoz | Reddit, Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us and Hacker News Algorithms Exposed! am 13. Juli 2008 unter algorithms chillitwister datamining delicious for

Although humans power social media, it is algorithms that provide the frameworks that make user input useful. As proven by the countless social sites online, finding the correct mix of participation and rules can be extremely difficult. Below are some of

ESPN Dev Blog » Blog Archive » Scaling lessons learned from the Bumpersticker app am 13. Juli 2008 unter chillitwister facebook for linkedin rails scaling

Basically when trying to scale a rails app (or really any web based app) there are three core rules to live by.

selling the - multiple multiples am 10. Juli 2008 unter art

Bei Manifestation eines Unikats mit der Seriennummer x, erhält der Käufer des Unikats mit der Seriennummer x Minus Eins, welches Teil des selben Multiples ist, seinen vollen Nettokaufpreis zurück.

paean to wanderings - review: Cultivation am 9. Juli 2008 unter game

You control a gardener, a googly-eyed circular critter. You claim a plot of land on a small island, plant seeds on it, water them until they grow into mature plants, and periodically harvest the fruit. Fruit give three types of nutrition - Red, Purple and

Erlang: The Movie am 9. Juli 2008 unter chillitwister for language video

Demo of the Erlang programming language

TripLog/1040 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! am 9. Juli 2008 unter design for iphone palm rallllle ui

I don't know who everyone here is, whether you're developing for the iPhone, have ever developed for any handheld platform, or are just iPhone users (actually one of the comments elsewhere online was clearly made by someone who wasn't even that). I'll tel

A dangerous conflict of interest between Firefox and Google | Surveillance State - CNET News.com am 8. Juli 2008 unter firefox google

However, the open secret in the tech sector is that at the end of the day, Google calls the shots. As this blog post will explain, when a pro-user security feature in the browser threatens Google's business model, it is the feature that is made to comprom