If Adobe needs Apple to grant them further access to the hardware to make the *Mac* version of Flash Player better, what are the odds that they’d get that sort of low-level hardware access on the iPhone OS? (Hint: zero.)
Leonard Richardson's model for understanding a RESTful architecture as steps in a maturity model. Levels are (1) resources, (2) HTTP verbs and return codes, and (3) hypertext controls.
It all started with a simple innocent tweet. As Vivek Wadhwa was finishing up his excellent post on outsourcing he tweeted about it and I ...
By leveraging the web in creation of rapid prototypes for testing business model assumptions, and using customer feedback to develop them, companies will be able to advance in its’ search for…
Update 07.30.2010 : Apple patched Safari ( CVE-ID: CVE-2010-1796 ) Right at the moment a Safari user visits a website, even if they’ve never...
Updated: 10/7/2016 I wanted to offer up what I felt were good books/resources to carry you through learning JavaScript. Note that some resources will overlap between levels. That should be expected…
Update, June 2020: I’ve sold BeardGuru.com, so I am no longer responsible for its content.
Hicks.design is Jon Hicks, established 2002.
The big loser this week, though, was Microsoft. They’re simply not even part of the game.
robhu has a good point over here . At the moment we write Javascript in web pages, which is then compiled down by the various JIT methods that Firefox/IE/Webkit use to make it super fast. Seeing as what's run clearly isn't the actual JS itself, but bytecode, why not have a standardised bytecode…
I recently found myself in the position of wanting to register a domain which was owned by someone else. The domain was set to expire in a week, and I figured there was a decent chance that the person …
Actually this is a common method of combatting spam, all of the various spam providers will block facebook as a whole if they don't include this information, which would obviously be a devastating annoyance. Go and send an e-mail from hotmail, or any kind of mailserver.. normal e-mail client, gmail, etc.. and you will…
Apple’s recently announced App Store for the Mac is a Really Big Deal™, for reasons I’ll get to in a moment. But a lot of existing Mac developers have pointed out major issues or unknowns that need to be addressed:
