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Archive for April, 2010
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26, Apr 2010Make Your Facebook Account Private Love the group feature. E.g. you can have “friends” and “close friends”, with different visibility settings Easy UIView debugging on the iPhone [i love this one!] When building a complex application with a lot of views, sometimes it’s handy to be able to see exactly what that relationship is. Farewell [...]
- In: Useful Bits
Little trip in the time machine
24, Apr 2010Found a piece thats really worth sharing. Too bad that I’m too young to actually know the Newton. 1998: A revolutionary, lovable Apple PDA with little squareish icons, on-screen keyboard, common icons across the bottom, single-tasking, and the best compact keyboard of the decade, complete with an ungainly but functional fold-out case. The Newton. 2010: [...]
- In: Design
Smoking in Austria
22, Apr 2010Austria is one of the few choices where smoking in public places is not forbidden. There are special non-smoking-areas in *some* restaurants, however, there are few controls and the law has some flaws. And everyone who tried to separate open rooms for smoking and non-smoking knows, that it’s not possible. In fact, we are the [...]
- In: Vienna
5 quotes by the creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf: I don’t like programming, and I’m not a real programmer.
17, Apr 2010I really don’t like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code. PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes? I was really, really bad [...]
- In: RubyOnRails
