iTunes adds international promo codes, push notification security upgraded

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

A couple of big changes occurred today in the iOS ecosystem. First, application promo codes may now be used internationally instead of being limited to US store customers only. Second, the push notification system has been upgraded to use more secure 2048…

8 December 2010

Erlang and OTP in Action

Slashdot

RickJWagner writes "Manning has just released a new Erlang title, called Erlang and OTP in Action. For quite some time now, there's been a definitive guide to Erlang-- Joe Armstrong's excellent book Programming Erlang. Well, it's time to make a little…

8 December 2010

A GrowlMail alternative

MacOSXHints.com

I really like GrowlMail but it isn't up-to-date with OS X. So here's an AppleScript alternative. You need the growlnotify utility that comes in Growl Extras on the Growl installer disk image. Create the following AppleScript and save it. Then create a…

7 December 2010

iAd Framework updates for iOS 4.2

Use Your Loaf

Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, A quick look at the changes made to the iAd framework in iOS 4.2 to accommodate the larger iPad screen size. The release of iOS 4.2 means that we finally have a unified OS running across…

28 November 2010

Objects in mirror...

Google Open Source Blog

The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs.

24 November 2010

A curious guide to browsers and the web

The Official Google Blog

Hey—we've moved. Visit The Keyword for all the latest news and stories from Google Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture A curious guide to browsers and the web Twenty years ago this month, Tim Berners-Lee…

18 November 2010

How-To: Create PDFs from your iOS device

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

AirPrint may not be officially implemented in Mac OS X yet, but the feature remains present in the latest iOS 4.2 GM available to developers. For those who do have iOS 4.2 GM installed on their iDevices and are hoping to enable AirPrint, we've got a handy…

17 November 2010

Percona white paper: Forecasting MySQL Scalability

MySQL Performance Blog

Ewen and I have just published Percona’s latest white paper, Forecasting MySQL Scalability with the Universal Scalability Law. This is essentially a streamlined walk-through of Dr. Neil J. Gunther’s book Guerrilla Capacity Planning, with examples to show…

16 November 2010

Boxcar 4.0 vastly improves on iPhone notifications

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

While people who have used both iOS and Android devices will argue over which OS exhibits a greater degree of polish, Android definitely has the better notification system. Even the addition of multitasking to iOS 4 did little to improve the state of…

15 November 2010