John Gruber just summed up my exact thoughts about today's announcement by Microsoft previewing the UI changes being made in Windows 8. The last paragraph is particularly good: Apple’s radical notion is that touchscreen personal computers should make severely different tradeoffs than traditional computers — and that you can’t design one system that does it all.
As anyone who has been writing code for a while can attest, keeping track of reusable code snippets is a must in terms of speeding up development. After all, who wants to waste time writing the same code over and over when you can simply copy and paste?
I had to laugh a little at the irony of your recent tweet about mainstream design blogging. The article does hit the nail on the head, though. There's way too much noise on the Internet these days. And you're not helping it at all. But you could be.
I just spent a good hour trying to diagnose a problem related to the view lifecycle in the iPhone OS, so I thought I'd share the solution here. My problem was in trying to grab some data from the network immediately after loading a view from a UITabBar.
Something that has always irked me is having to take the value of a textarea and convert the text into HTML paragraphs (especially when using a WYSIWYG is not an option). Here's a quick PHP snippet to take care of that, whether the user uses one or two line breaks for new paragraphs.
I've finally gotten around to picking up a copy of The Mythical Man Month, a collection of essays on software engineering written by Frederick Brooks which was originally published in 1975. While the majority of the book has stood the test of time remarkably well, Chapter 3, entitled "The Surgical Team," especially intrigued me.
I have spent the last few days redesigning my personal blog from scratch with a totally new look and feel. The motivation for this came from multiple sources, including the desire to practice my design skills by creating something new (which was not fully satiated by designing my new mini-site recently).
All work is original and copyright 2012 by Ash White, with the exception of a handful of free third-party libraries, including the Scriptaculous JavaScript framework, Lightbox image overlay, Google Font Directory, Google Code Prettify, and Eric Meyer's CSS Reset.