How to sell your app to another developer

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Daniel Kennett asked on Twitter about how to sell his app to another developer. Me, I’ve sold three apps — every major thing I’ve created, except for my current project — so I have some thoughts about this. FIND A GOOD HOME Your major concern is to find a…

19 December 2011

What Justin uses

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Justin Williams: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X. There are some things on this list I didn’t know about, that I’ll have to check out. (HTTP Client, iPhone Backup Extractor, and LangSwitch, for instance.)

19 December 2011

MapReduce For the Masses With Common Crawl Data

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New submitter happyscientist writes "This is a nice 'Hello World' for using Hadoop MapReduce on Common Crawl data. I was interested when Common Crawl announced themselves a few weeks ago, but I was hesitant to dive in. This is a good video/example that…

19 December 2011

On Releasing Open Source Code

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Matt Gemmell: Open Source Code. > I strongly encourage releasing reusable portions of your code - it’s the lifeblood of the developer community. Over the years, I’ve put together a set of best practices for releasing open source code, to make life easier…

19 December 2011

MIT Software Allows Queries On Encrypted Databases

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Sparrowvsrevolution writes "CryptDB, a piece of database software that MIT researchers presented at the Symposium on Operating System Principles in October, allows users to send queries to an encrypted SQL database and get results without decrypting the…

19 December 2011

Three quick iMessage tips

Macworld

The new iMessage feature, introduced with iOS 5, is good out of the box. But with a few quick tips, you can make the iOS device messaging capability even better.

15 December 2011

UIAlertView changes in iOS 5

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Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, Update 05-Sep-2014: See this later post on UIAlertController Changes in iOS 8 for a modern replacement of UIAlertView if you target iOS 8 or later. The UIAlertView class has been available…

14 December 2011

10.7: Change the Dashboard background

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Mac OS X Lion introduced Mission Control and a whole new way to organize desktops. In the process they made it possible to set a different image for each Desktop, but in the Dashboard we're stuck with a boring gray bathmat texture that can't be changed.…

13 December 2011

Google Currents is latest Newspad reader-feeder app

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We had an explosion of news apps this week. Zite added an iPhone version of its app, so did Flipboard. Now Google has joined the party with Google Currents, a free app that creates a magazine for you based on sites that you like, as well as content from…

11 December 2011