Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Skills rule. Great photos from iPhone 3GS

"Setup and skill are usually a lot more important than how expensive your camera is". Can't agree more.

Reading on Paper Faster than Reading on iPads, Kindles, and Other Digital Devices

A study found that reading from tablets are 10 % slower and people actually like reading from tablets more than from paper. I don't care about the speed of reading as long as I:

  1. Get cheaper books in software form
  2. Save environment by not buying paper books
  3. Get all my books in one place and cleaning out my bookshelves
Unfortunately #1 is not the case  in my surprise. I tried to buy a book from iBooks and it's price was $10 the same price on the same paperback book was on Amazon. I don't get it.

Android 2.2 demolishes iOS4 in JavaScript benchmarks

Android 2.2 demolishes iOS4 in JavaScript benchmarks Mark my words kids - the future of mobile development is web development. All this native app fuss will be obsolete in a few years. Mobile development will step in a desktop development shoe. The more complicated mobile apps become the more web solutions will look more attractive.

Professional iPhone Programming with MonoTouch and .NET/C#

MonoTouch book is published. I'm surprised. I thought new iPhone development rules exclude any non native code running on iPhone. How they did it?

Web Matrix

Scott's Gu post about Web Matrix good read.

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Mac OSX terminal tips

Here I like "open .", "pbcopy", "pbpaste", "mdfind"