Race start (Taken with Instagram at Laguna Hills Half Marathon)
API Design
APIs are UX for developers
I couldn’t have said it better than Matt Gemmell.
This isn’t just for writing publicly shared code. As a programmer you should be writing APIs all the time. Your own internal code should not be exempt from good API design, and once you get into the habit of it, you’ll be a much happier programmer.
It’s harder to build an app with web technology. The web began as a document format, with an interactive layer added later. You can’t optimize web technology for an app experience without compromising its strengths for the web.
Web technology is great for many things. Replicating a native app experience is not one of them.
Source: sandofsky.com
Google+: The Charge Of The Like Brigade
What Google has done, remarkably, is to transfer all the worst qualities of Facebook to themselves while managing to retain almost none of the good ones. They were behind the scenes; now they are in people’s faces. They were a service; now they are a destination. They monitored the web; now they distort it. Whether or not these things are really true, they are now popular perceptions of Google. Facebook meanwhile has taken on a few of Google’s best characteristics as it has expanded across the web.
It's Not File Size That's Killing iPad Magazines
Since the announcement and launch of the new retina display iPad, designers have been pointing out the obvious, magazine downloads that were already huge are going to become absolutely enormous. But magazines on the iPad have bigger problems than file size.
I spent over a year working for a…
Source: bcolbow
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