July 2011
The Pickles Solution
The Pickles solution is – discovering the solution to a problem through the act of explaining the problem to somebody else. This is very common in programming where a developer spends a lot of time on his own trying to fix a problem to no avail. He calls over another developer and starts explaining the […]
“native vs web” is total malarkey
The web is dead. HTML5 is the be-all end-all of the future. Users are spending more time on apps and less time on the web. You can do anything on the web that you can in a native app. Yawn. Here’s how I feel whenever I hear/read anything about the overplayed “Native Versus Web” argument: […]
Improving iOS code with blocks and block programming
Programming languages are like people. Some are better at some things than others; some can do things other’s can’t. If they’re taken care of they get better over time. While I could look at a number of languages and frameworks for demonstration I’m particularly inspired by the relatively recent improvement of iOS development due to […]
Techniques for programming real-time updates
The history of internet and web development always fought against stateless connections between web browsers and servers. Programmers keep trying to create a more realistic experience in order to hide some of the protocol’s limitations. In order to give the user the feeling of live responses, we can go through several paths. There are a lot of […]
Bookmarklets and Javascript – A powerful combination
Do me a favor: copy the line of text below and paste it into your browser’s address bar and press Enter. javascript:alert(“Holy Moly! I can run code in this thing!”); Whoa! What just happened? Javascript. That’s what. And that’s all it takes to make those magical things called bookmarklets give you an awesome (and […]
