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Scalability fun…
Since its launch two weeks ago, we have been able to discover firsthand that Adobe Reader 9 is an amazingly effective device for generating traffic – twice as good as we expected it to be, in fact. So...
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Mozilla TraceMonkey speeds javascript
I think it is very cool how much progress is being made on Javascript performance in both Firefox and Safari – very exciting times. It will be interesting to see if/how/when Microsoft can step up to...
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Mock up your app with Balsamiq Mockups
This post is a plug for a great new tool: Mockups. It makes it brain-dead simple to create quick sketches of your application design, and it integrates with Jira and Confluence. I bought a copy to do...
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Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing
I recently installed CruiseControl.rb on my MacBook Pro, and its been a great help. But I’ve also been looking at “Continuous Testing” tools like the autotest feature of ZenTest. I don’t find autotest...
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Apple and “Cinematic Experiences”
An interesting discussion is going on about the “iPhone Black” UI over at Paul Goracke’s Corporation Unknown blog. The post itself is really about how the current trend to ‘all-black’ iPhone apps is a...
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SousChef: When is a native app worse than a web app?
Thanks to John Gruber’s post, I went and downloaded SousChef, a recipe file for the Mac that has some interesting new features: it lets you “Tap the Cloud” – you can search for recipes other SousChef...
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SugarTrip: Mobile Collective Intelligence
Its funny: the other day, I was driving my new car with its fancy traffic-aware nav system and thinking: man, this traffic system is lame. I wish that there was a way I could get real information from...
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On Evangelism and other Isms
I discovered the other day that James Plamandon had started a blog discussing the art of Platform Evangelism. James has achieved a modicum of infamy when some of his work came to light during the Iowa...
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Convergence: Smartphones vs. Netbooks, or Consumption vs. Creation?
Lately, there has been a lot of discussion about the future of the computer. There are people discussing how popular netbooks were during the holiday season. The CEO of RIM says the BlackBerry Storm is...
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Open Government and PDF
Daring Fireball just linked to two equally foolish articles about how PDFs are “bad” for Open Government. The premise of these articles is that the world would be a much better place if all governments...
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