The iPhone App Store has been a huge success for both Apple and indie developers that have developed applications for the iPhone. Even with all the success, some iPhone developer have been very vocal about the stringent process and restrictions involved to release applications for the iPhone. On the other hand, the Android platform promises [...]
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Karthik Gurumurthy was at the Silicon Valley Codecamp 2008 to talk about Apache Wicket. Wicket is yet another Java based web framework. Wicket has a real nice separation between markup and code and consists of plain old java and plain old HTML. Unlike the other Java frameworks, Wicket has minimum configuration, zero XML files and [...]
Apple recently dropped the Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) that developers had to agree to develop iPhone applications using the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK). The NDA prohibited iPhone developers from writing tutorials, guides, blogs, books, and even wikis about the iPhone SDK. Apple has always been overbearingly protected and goes so far as to have [...]
When I am not coding I am reading about code. Here is a short list of memerable programming quotes I read over the past year about the science and art of software development. If find this collection of software development quotes useful you may also want to browse my all time Favorite Programming Quotes and [...]
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I recently picked up JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford. Douglas is a senior JavaScript architect at Yahoo! whose work with JavaScript has inspired JSON. In JavaScript: The Good Parts, he presents the best features of JavaScript that have made it ubiquitous while omitting those imperfections that have given the language its bad rap. [...]
I own my personal and private Ruby and Rails library. If I haven’t misplaced any of my books, I currently have ten of the top Ruby and Rails books. From each book I have learned something new about Ruby and Rails. If you are a new programmer learning Ruby or Rails, you don’t need all [...]