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Hyperlink vs Button in Android 22 Jun 2013 | 01:22 pm
After installing the Google Play Music app, the first screen allows you to choose which Google account to associate with it. Seems straightforward enough; but have a look at the screen - what you wou...
Google's fiber leeching caper 20 Feb 2013 | 04:35 pm
Back in 2000, Google only had data centers on the US west coast and were planning an expansion over to the east coast, to reduce latency to end users. At the time, Google was not hugely profitable lik...
How to learn a new programming language 2 Feb 2013 | 11:29 am
Here's some tips on learning a new programming language. I discovered these by reading various articles and forums on the net. They aren't listed in any specific order. Hopefully you'll gain from this...
Big Ball of Mud Design Pattern 16 Jan 2013 | 05:24 am
In "Big Ball of Mud", Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder propose that the default (and most common) software architecture in use is the "Big Ball of Mud" pattern and go on to discuss six additional patterns...
The first right answer is the only answer 3 Jan 2013 | 03:16 pm
Reading through David B. Stewart's paper entitled "Twenty-Five Most Common Mistakes with Real-Time Software Development" (PDF, 131 KB). There's an interesting nugget of advice at number 8, "The first...
Pricing hacks of online retailers 28 Dec 2012 | 01:58 pm
1. Free stuff When retailers offer products and services for "free" there's usually an ulterior motive. For online shops, "free" provides the initial incentive for buyers to use their web site, and ma...
Defensive copy and paste coding 17 Dec 2012 | 06:59 am
I've got into the habit of doing this check at the end of any development which has involved some copy & pasting of existing code. It's been useful for me in picking up issues before build/test/commit...
The slow decline of PCs and the fast rise of Smartphones/Tablets was predicted in 1993 4 Nov 2012 | 06:43 pm
I've just read some predictions for the future of the PC, written in 1993, by Nathan P. Myhrvold, the former Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft. His memo is amazingly accurate. Note that his term ...
Q&A With Nine Great Programmers 8 Sep 2012 | 07:22 pm
This Q&A article is originally from 2006, published on the blog of Polish developer Jaroslaw "sztywny" Rzeszótko (AKA "Stiff"). That original blog post is no longer online. Gratefully republished wit...
Startups for Dummies 25 Aug 2012 | 09:53 am
The problem with Steve Blank’s How to Build a Web Startup (Lean Launchpad Edition) article ... There’s little to no focus on the actual product being built. Only 1 out of 50 points listed is actuall...
