Why are apartments in Toronto not designed like this? Perfect for students, or recent grads. via GIZMODO – The Tiny Transforming Apartment That Packs Eight Rooms into 350 Square Feet on Vimeo.
Posts By: Ryan Nickel
Paperman – Full Animated Short Film
If you haven’t seen this already, I highly suggest you check it out. It’ll be 6 minutes well spent. Paperman – Full Animated Short Film – YouTube.
Three Million Users · GitHub Blog
Monday night, on the very first day of our all-hands winter summit this week, the three millionth person signed up for a GitHub account. That’s three million developers building software better, together. Three Million Users · GitHub Blog. That’s a whole lotta coders! Good job GitHub!
Push message differences between Android and iPhone | Buzzing Android
Push message differences between Android and iPhone | Buzzing Android. A nice writeup of the basic differences between how the two platforms handle push messaging. My largest complaint about how iOS handles push messages is that your application doesn’t have the choice of doing something with it. Sometimes there may be a little background processing… Read more »
PHP: The Right Way
There’s a lot of outdated information on the Web that leads new PHP users astray, propagating bad practices and bad code. This must stop. PHP: The Right Way is an easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP best practices, accepted coding standards, and links to authoritative tutorials around the Web. via PHP: The Right Way. Great… Read more »
2012: A Year in PHP – techPortal
A great write up on where/how PHP has evolved this past year, and what a year it’s been. Another year has passed, and yet again we find ourselves reflecting on what has happened in the world of PHP over the past year. Let’s take a moment to look back over our 2012 predictions and see how close… Read more »
What’s the first thing I do with my Eclipse IDE?
I change my keybindings. As an OSX user, I’ve become quite accustomed to certain keyboard shortcuts. This thread on Stack Overflow has a good start on the keybindings I miss most. osx – Eclipse and its Completely Un-Mac-Like key bindings – Stack Overflow.
The customer’s not irrational, it’s just how our brains work.
Ben Northrop – The User Interface and the Halo Effect. The customer’s not irrational, it’s just how our brains work. I am guilty of this exact thing, but it’s something that I’m trying to work on with my latest project. We’ll see how true this really is!
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Twitter survives election after Ruby-to-Java move • The Register
Micro-blogging site Twitter experienced record traffic as the results of the 2012 US Presidential election were announced on Tuesday night, but the service never faltered despite the increased load – something Twitter engineers credit to the company’s move from Ruby to Java for its backend software. via Twitter survives election after Ruby-to-Java move • The… Read more »