How do you process credit cards?
Matt asks: In my experience, credit card processing has been one of the major hurdles in starting an online business. Especially recurring/subscription charges. You’ve got PayPal, which seems a little unprofessional (and is a pain in the a*), and an absurd number of 3rd party vendors …
What You Learned About How Planes Fly Was Probably Wrong
So we all know how planes fly, right? The top of the wing is rounded and the bottom of the wing is more straight. Air takes longer to travel over the top of the
Why I haven’t been blogging as much
News and announcements from your friends at Balsamiq.
Google Opens Up Its EPUB Archive: Download 1 Million Books for Free
Posted by Brandon Badger, Product Manager Over the years, we've heard a lot from people who've unearthed hidden treasures in Google Books: a...
SciPy - the embarrassing way to code
I’ve programmed in many languages before, indeed I’ve spent at least a year working in Basic, C, C++, C#, java, assembler, modula-2, powerhouse and prolog. One thing I’ve never done before is Matlab, well except a few basic exercises for some course I did way back. A couple of years ago I started using python and more…
Emacs 23 is very near
Emacs 23(.1) has been released ! After only just over two years since the previous version, emacs 23 has been released on July 29 200...
Starting a business isn't as crazy and risky as they say
If you're thinking about starting a new venture right now, you need to understand the risks, but you need the real risks. The truth (as always) lies between baseless off-hand remarks about how "95% of businesses fail" (false!) and those startup blogs that show only the rosy side of things.
"Unholy Rage": Eve Online bans 2% of accounts, sees 30% drop in CPU use
Player-created empires, player-driven markets, and endless ways to embark on your personal sci-fi adventure.
The Development Abstraction Layer
A young man comes to town. He is reasonably good looking, has a little money in his pocket. He finds it easy to talk to women. He doesn’t speak much about his past, but it is clear that he sp…
LLVM Blog: Clang Builds LLVM
Just in time for the Christmas holiday, the Clang project has hit a major milestone: Clang can now build all of LLVM and Clang! The resulting Clang-built-Clang is not yet functional, so this "
Erlang: An Introduction to Records
Internally Erlang has only two internal compound data types: lists and tuples. Neither of these data types support named access, so creating associative arrays a la PHP, Ruby, or Python is an impossibility without additional libraries.
One Small Leap for Open Source, One Giant Leap for Mankind
Search for and read the latest Red Hat news and press releases about the people and products shaping the future of open source and open hybrid cloud technology.
Sell it before you build it
Fliggo does it right: Fliggo Pro is a minimum viable product in action. MVPs reduce time to market. It’s a good sign when people sign up to be notified. And if nobody signs up, you build the …
Saying "NO"
I saw this cartoon in a tweet today. It’s the story of how a boss corrupts the work of a professional. It’s a funny cartoon, and a sad story that happens all too often in our profession. But who, exactly, was at fault?...