Programming text editors are a dime a dozen, quite literally: there are dozens of great, free open-source editors running from vim and emacs to full-fledged IDEs like Eclipse and Netbeans, and it's pretty understandable that developers would spend time building tools for their own craft. But I recently discovered that there's...
Whew. A few weeks ago, we released our new Square and Card Case apps. Alongside the new apps, the front-end web development team spent a long two, three weeks to launch a new site worthy of our revamped product line. Under the tutelage of our front-end tech lead, we designed, redesigned, coded and refactored the...
Ars had an article today on how RSS is no longer a sane way to consume news; I also saw Marco (of Instapaper fame) posted how he has changed his RSS habit for "sane...
I've been playing around with the coding mobile sites and webapps lately. Ironically, although Apple had first pushed for web apps with iOS 1.0 - it's hard to remember that the iPhone did not let outside developers write apps for almost a year - mobile webapps are pretty immature compared...
When I heard the iOS announcement this morning on system-wide Twitter integration, I figured it was a great UI move on Twitter's part, and at the very least would get more usage from...
If you had to sit down and write some software for end-users, which platform and language would you write it in now? How about five, ten years ago, or three years in the future? I believe the answer ought to be "HTML" for all of them[1]. Of course, in the interim there...
