links for 2007-02-19
February 19, 2007 | Comments-
"The main difference between SMS and IM messaging is real time delivery, which 3G networks are more than capable of handling now with increased total bandwidth and lower latency."
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Strangely hypnotic. One to be projected onto a wall at the next Rosehill event :)
links for 2007-02-18
February 18, 2007 | Comments-
"The stage should be set for mobile to completely subsume the online world. But instead it’s the people from the online world staggering out into the sun and realizing there’s no one trying to grab the potential of the new medium and just picking up t
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"While much attention has been focused on high-level software architectural patterns, what is, in effect, the de-facto standard software architecture is seldom discussed. This paper examines this most frequently deployed of software architectures: the BIG
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"There are many things in life that I wish were bigger—lots bigger (hard disk, thumb drive, monitor, RAM, etc.) but classes and methods should not be in that list."
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"Dialing and other electronic operations on the “Shabbat phone” are performed in an indirect way so that the person using the phone is not directly closing electrical circuits."
An extreme example of cultural concerns impacting on technology...
"Photographic imagery can be applied to swimming pool and glazed wall tiles using this colour, fade and UV resistant process. After firing at very high temperatures the finished design is encapsulated within the glaze matrix giving the protection from lig
"Outside of the alteration in software posture described above, the text is the single most significant change between Twitter.com and Twitterific. Everything else stays the same; we are, in fact, dealing with exactly the same application logic on the bac
"The cool thing about the images above is they’re scannable at a glance. If these were videos, you would have to watch each one in order to know what’s going on. The multiple frame view, on the other hand, gives you an instant overview."
"You cannot move forward without eliminating impediments."
Betavine launches
February 18, 2007 | CommentsI've been meaning to blog about this for so long it's probably old news now... but Vodafone Betavine has launched. It's an R&D project providing a place for application developers to publish their great stuff to a community of testers or other interested folks... so should be a great place to find interesting titbits if you're that way inclined. I was dead chuffed to have a chance to contribute to the project at one of the early-ish planning meetings - the fact that Voda was going out there and asking for opinion in the first place was A Really Good Thing IMHO, and a breath of fresh air after the fairly closed "Via" programme they ran for developer relationships.
Little Springs Design on \"yes/no, ok/cancel\"
February 17, 2007 | CommentsLittle Springs Design on "yes/no, ok/cancel": "n the mobile space, I frequently see the button label problem with error messages and query messages. In many of these cases, “Retry” and “Cancel” make good labels (almost always better than either yes/no or ok/cancel). What’s most important is giving the user a clue about the action in the button label itself."
This is a personal bugbear at the moment: why, when an application is telling me it can't do what I want it to, do I have to admit to it that that's "OK"?
Is this really much of an improvement than the "abort, retry, fail" choice which MSDOS gave us?
Going to SXSW?
February 17, 2007 | CommentsGoing to SXSW? If you get a chance, go see Chris Letcher play :)