Apple’s Cash
I Heart Chaos: Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result
There’s all sorts of magic to be had with numbers, and many mathematicians have made entire careers in finding these little tricks that are mostly useless, but fun anyway. Unfortunately, a lot of calculators are going to truncate the results of this trick, but if you manage to get a hold of…
Tip relating to freshness of eggs:
If you aren’t sure how fresh your eggs are, place them in about four inches of water. Eggs that stay on the bottom are fresh. If only one end tips up, the egg is less fresh and should be used soon. If it floats, it’s past the fresh stage.
yongfook: Design is Horseshit!
In direct response to: http://designerfund.com/infographic
I’ve created products / services in the past that have garnered praise for their design. I love good design in all forms - copywriting in particular fascinates me. I’ve never called myself a designer.
Here’s my pitch. This…
Map for the Game of Thrones
(via Study a Painstakingly Detailed Game of Thrones Map — Vulture)
An iOS Developer Takes on Android
Recently, we released the Android version of Meridian, our platform for building location-based apps.
We didn’t use one of these “Cross Platform!” tools like Titanium. We wrote it, from scratch, in Java, like you do in Android.
We decided it was important to keep the native stuff native, and to respect each platform’s conventions as much as possible. Some conventions are easy to follow, like putting our tabs on the top. Other conventions go deep into the Android Way, like handling
Intents, closing oldActivities, implementing Search Providers, and being strict about references to help the garbage collector.Now, our platform leverages HTML5 (buzzword, sorry) in many places for branding and content display, so we got a fair amount of UI for free. But there was much platform code written in Objective-C that needed translation into Java, such as map navigation, directions, and location switching.
So, we rolled up our sleeves, downloaded the Android SDK, and got to work.
Clients From Hell: Client: I love the headline but can’t you make it more….punchy. Me: I...
Client: I love the headline but can’t you make it more….punchy.
Me: I don’t think it’s going to get more punchy than ‘We Buy Gold’.
Client: I want more with less!
Me: ‘Sell Gold’
Client: No, I absolutely hate that. The last one was better, just make it punchy. I want it to pop off the…
