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Three lessons from the Chipotle iPhone app

The iPhone app from Chipotle, the restaurant chain best known for its burritos, is an interesting mix of simple design, e-commerce functionality and location tools. Digging into the app's development reveals three aspects that could prove useful for businesses and programmers pursuing their own mobile paths.

Free Book Samplers! - Designing Great iPhone Apps, Being Geek, Power Your House, Your Money, and more.

Check out our free PDF book samplers from these new and upcoming books:

• Tap Happy: Designing Great iPhone Apps
• Being Geek
• Power Your House
• Personal Investing: The Missing Manual
• Your Money: The Missing Manual

Four short links: 2 March 2010

Visualising Time Series Data in Tweets -- builds sparklines from Twitter Data tweets. GPL Inadequate for Open Source Voting Software -- the GPL prohibits "additional restrictions", but the US Government has requirements for its voting software that fall into that category. An interesting read. The solution will be a new open source license (sigh) but one that meets their...

Are Books Dead - What Happens When Too Much Information Isn't Enough?

As we struggle to stay on top of everything that crosses our paths, are we missing opportunities to get more out of the information? Are we becoming too much of a "right now" society? Are we able to delve into an issue at length or stick with a topic that doesn't have a quick pithy answer? My fear is that in our quest for quick information, we may be losing a vital tool in books...

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Robin Nixon has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s (his first computer was a Tandy TRS 80 Model 1 with a massive 4KB of RAM!). One of the web sites he developed presented the world's first radio station licensed by the music copyright holders. In order to enable…

Raven Zachary helps people create, develop, and launch iPhone products and services.

Noah Gift is the co-author of Python For Unix and Linux by O'Reilly. He is an author, speaker, consultant, and community leader, writing for publications such as IBM Developerworks, Red Hat Magazine, O'Reilly, and MacTech, and Manning.

Maximiliano Firtman is a developer focused in mobile and RIA development. He is a professor in web and mobile technologies, and founder of ITMaster Professional Training. He is author of many books in Spanish, including Java ME, ASP.NET, AJAX Professional Web 2.0 and he is working in a Flex 4 framework book.

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