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This excerpt from Making Software presents research that can help projects and organizations determine whether and when to use Agile methods versus architecting approaches to software development. Eve...

By JonUdell  | 04 November 2010 - 06:22 AM | 1 Reply

Introduction In this week's companion article on the Radar blog, I discuss how principles of common-sense information architecture govern whether public events posted to Facebook will or won't be...

By macslocum  | 07 July 2010 - 05:26 AM | 2 Replies

My iPad looks like a bookstore strip mall. The iBooks app on one end. The Kindle app on the other. Borders and Barnes & Noble are crammed in the middle. [attachment=1211:ereaders-ipad.png] ...

If not, you're missing the boat! mod_rewrite is a tool which uses regular expressions to match strings available in Apache's variables. The effect it has on serving files based on it...

By blackbear  | 21 June 2010 - 05:56 AM | 8 Replies

One of the more useful (from a developer standpoint) features coming in iOS 4 (formerly iPhone OS 4) is the UIAutomation tool. This lets you run an automated set of tests against an application, and ...

By chco  | 08 November 2010 - 10:17 PM | 0 Replies

The following excerpt is from iPod: The Missing Manual, 9th Edition. Below the author shows how you can use the iPod Nano to help with your fitness goals.In addition to its Stopwatch feature, the iPod...

The following is adapted from the newly released book Conversion Optimization by Khalid Saleh and Ayat Shukairy. When the average ecommerce store converts only 2% of its visitors into customers, it i...

By chco  | 08 November 2010 - 12:58 PM | 0 Replies

This excerpt from iPod: The Missing Manual, 9th Edition shows you how to get started with Ping, Apple's music social network.Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr—if there’s anything the ...

By chco  | 05 November 2010 - 01:34 PM | 0 Replies

The following excerpt from iPod: The Missing Manual, 9th Edition shows you how to get started with the iPod Touch Game Center.Unless you’re playing Solitaire, games are usually more fun when you pla...

By chco  | 28 October 2010 - 03:37 PM | 1 Reply

This excerpt from Javascript Patterns explains how to write modules in Javascript to help you structure your code and make it easier to maintain.The module pattern is widely used b...

By mike-loukides  | 18 October 2010 - 11:42 AM | 4 Replies

These tips on battery life were written with Android in mind, but they apply to most smart phones. Keep Wi-Fi off unless you need it. This is admittedly a pain. But Wi-Fi makes a big difference.If th...

By chco  | 04 November 2010 - 02:15 PM | 0 Replies

The following excerpt from Javascript Patterns shows you how to use remote scripting to communicate with the server from Javascript.Today’s web applications often use remote scri...

By BonnieB  | 04 November 2010 - 12:54 PM | 0 Replies

If you launched your small business from your basement and kept your records with Quicken Home & Business Edition, your accountant has probably recommended that you make the leap to using QuickBoo...

I've posted some code I used to process an RSS 2.0 XML document (Java)... The Blurb I’ve seen a lot of examples for parsing XML using SAX. As far as I can tell, that is the most efficient metho...