I wasn’t all that familiar with Sproutcore, Apple’s JavaScript framework prior to reading this article, but after thinking the arguments over, I think Apple has been flanking the other players in the application marketplace (both online and desktop) for a…
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SproutCore: Apple’s Flanking Move?
6/16/2008 – 10:46 am
The Beatles, Radiohead and Our Musical Tastes
2/26/2008 – 11:25 am
Michelle has posted a great wrap up of Tim Westergren’s speech at Pandora’s Get Together here in Austin. Pandora sent me a number of reminders about the event, but I chose not to go, which is a shame because it sounds like it was…
Politics and Open Source
2/9/2008 – 8:49 pm
Whurley has created a poll to gather feedback on the question of who would be an ideal candidate for those of us who rely upon and value source software. As he says, “Assume for a moment that a knowledge of open…
Secure Passwords and Your iPhone
1/31/2008 – 9:58 am
1Password, an amazingly useful password manager for the Mac has just released a beta version which provides the ability to auto-fill and submit your passwords on the iPhone. This is a massive improvement for anyone who uses even slightly secure…
Print to PDF on Windows Without Acrobat
1/15/2008 – 3:15 pm
I recently needed to produce a PDF on my XP box at work, but as I didn’t have Adobe Acrobat Professional installed I had to do some digging. Luckily it didn’t take too long to find a convenient solution. Even…
Sandy Twitters
1/7/2008 – 9:09 am
Sweet, I Want Sandy, which I’ve covered previously supports interactions via Twitter! This makes it even easier to quickly capture something that should be remembered later. While the supported options are a subset of Sandy’s full capabilities, all of the major…
Giving Purpose to Old Flash Memory Cards
12/31/2007 – 1:35 pm
On the Refresh Austin mailing list, Paul asked a really good question - what to do with old Flash Memory cards that are small compared to today’s needs. Often these are just thrown in a drawer, box or backpack and forgotten about, but…
Know Your Nerd
11/12/2007 – 8:08 am
Your nerd’s insatiable quest for information and The High has tweaked his brain in an interesting way. For any given piece of incoming information, your nerd is making a lightning fast assessment: relevant or not relevant? Relevance means that the…
IE to Eliminate the Click to Activate Requirement for Flash & ActiveX
11/8/2007 – 4:14 pm
About six months back, Microsoft was forced to hobble the usability of Internet Explorer as a tactic in their legal battles with Eolas. This lead to much consternation within the Web development community and too much time and money spent…
Cake on OS X with Headdress
10/29/2007 – 10:10 am
As I’ve been testing CakePHP I’ve run into an odd issue on my local OS X development environment. I couldn’t get the system configured to properly render the site I was building. It didn’t even show the default documentation properly -…