Entries Tagged as 'Software Engineering'

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

iPhone SDK: The carrot for Cocoa, the stick for Flash

Apple has a problem. How do they attract and keep developers on their platform? They created an Apple-only API that requires a variant of C long thought dead. Developers aren’t so keen on having to learn a new programming language that doesn’t give them any advantage over their existing ones and ties them to a […]

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

I just read 200 undergrad and graduate student resumes

My eyes are killing me.
Why the heck are you cramming so much unimportant information onto your single-sided single-page resume? You make it completely unreadable! Especially when someone (like a hiring manager) is trying to scan through hundreds of scanned pages.
Also, a new tip. Your paper resume will be scanned. It will be OCR’d. If you […]

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Alex Iskold’s tips for startups

36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More - ReadWriteWeb
This is a collection of startup tips covering software engineering, infrastructure, PR, conferences, legal and finance. They describe best practices for an early-stage startup. We hope that you will find these tips useful, but also please remember that they are based on subjective experiences […]

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Added SimplePie to the PHP RSS Comparator

SimplePie seems as robust as MagPie and it’s got some nicer features. It’s significantly slower when pulling from the net, but it is insanely fast when coming from the cache. Unfortunately, you’re mostly pulling from the net.
check it out:
http://www.feedalicious.net/tools/phprsscomparator/
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007

comparing PHP RSS parsers

For a little project I’m working on, I needed to do some RSS parsing. I quickly found lastRSS, magpie and the Pear XML Feed Parsing Library. I wasn’t sure which was the best, so I decided to do a little apples to apples to apples comparison. I created the PHP RSS Comparator to help me […]

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

excellent geek comic

I feel super geeky for posting this, but is wonderful
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

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Saturday, October 13th, 2007

Dear Radiohead and the rest of the music industry

I applaud you, Radiohead, for doing such a forward-thinking experiment with your distribution for InRainbows. However, you’ve unfortunately made sure that any data you receive from this experiment will be useless. Why? Well, because your website and ordering process are HORRIBLE. I had so many problems getting your website to work that I almost gave […]

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

I have seen the future and it is Thermo powered

Holy frijoles was that beautiful.

That was absolutely one of coolest demos I have EVER seen. If I wasn’t wedded to C++, I’d switch over %100 to doing ActionScript development right now so that I could use that tool to make my GUIs. Microsoft should be shaking in it’s boots, because from what I’ve seen of […]

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Interesting article on Ruby vs PHP

I’ve been doing PHP for a little while, but I’m always hearing about how much better Ruby on Rails is. Luckily, Derek from CDBaby decided to rewrite his site with Rails and actually decided that PHP was better for some stuff.
7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - OReilly Ruby
I […]

Friday, August 24th, 2007

f’ing A! CSS Positioning sux

Every time I try to use CSS for positioning, I hit the wall. Gradually, this wall has been getting further and further, but I still always hit it. First I couldn’t get things to lay out correctly at all. Now I can get them to lay out, but only on three of the four browsers […]

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