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By andyo  | 02 December 2010 - 11:11 AM

This excerpt deals with an apparently simple question: what is the most convenient office space layout for collocated software teams? Intuitively, we know that space and the distance and accessibility...

By chco  | Today, 10:11 AM

An important statistic to consider for your sales website is the bounce rate. The author of the excerpt below from the O'Reilly publication Conversion Optimization advances an approach to rethinki...

By imekinox  | 15 February 2011 - 06:25 PM

Installing OpenKinect and as3Kinect for Popular OSs This article guides you through the steps required to get your Kinect working with your computer. What Equipment Do You Need? You need two pieces ...

By chco  | Yesterday, 10:20 AM

With so much content passing across Facebook it can be difficult at times to make your own voice be heard. The following excerpt from The Facebook Marketing Book offers some tips and approaches to mak...

By VandadNP  | Yesterday, 01:40 AM

This is the second video in the series of videos that I'm preparing, demonstrating to iOS developers how they can take advantage of logging facilities provided in the iOS SDK to be able to find de...

By VandadNP  | 26 February 2011 - 02:04 PM

Ever wanted to learn to save hours of your and your teammates' time by creating software that doesn't crash, has logs and lets you find its defects easily? Ever got sick and tired of using a d...

By Ángel Manuel García Carmona  | 26 February 2011 - 12:57 PM

A geometric progression is a sequence of numbers obtained after multiplying the former by a constant called the rate of progression. For example: 5, 15, 45, etc., is a series whose ratio is 3. Then to...

By chco  | 26 February 2011 - 08:50 AM

This excerpt from Mining the Social Web applies k-means to the problem of clustering your professional contacts and plots them out in Google Earth. To create a nice visualization of this data you'...

By VandadNP  | 24 February 2011 - 03:29 PM

So apple announced they have made new MacBook Pros. Having a MBP myself, I was keen to see what the specifications were and how Apple improved this machine which already was a beast. So here is the de...

By chco  | 25 February 2011 - 08:15 AM

When designing a mobile version of your website it can be helpful to streamline the branding elements from your main website. The following excerpt from Designing Interfaces, Second Edition offers sev...

By chco  | 24 February 2011 - 02:06 PM

The following excerpt from Learning the iOS 4 SDK for Javascript Programmers gives some insight into working with Objective-C data types.With variables being so highly tied to their data typ...

By zainnab  | 24 February 2011 - 06:55 AM

Today we explore how to use a new feature in Visual Studio 2010 called Reference Highlighting. Used to quickly find references in the current open document and iterate over them this feature is very u...

By chco  | 23 February 2011 - 08:34 PM

In this excerpt from Designing Interfaces, Second Edition the author provides a few ways to approach the use of a Content Leaderboard when wishing to display popular content. Below we take a look at w...

By adfm  | 06 May 2010 - 12:30 PM

The address book is a core feature of any mobile platform. It has to be available to you at any moment or the device isn't worth hefting around, right? If you just picked up an iPad and wanted to ...

By chco  | 23 February 2011 - 11:01 AM

Below is a handy equation from Conversion Optimization. It gives a quick and easy way to determine the minimum number of conversions needed to not lose money on your campaign.While setting paid campai...

By VandadNP  | 23 February 2011 - 08:08 AM

Apple has a little secret... Emojis... Emoji is Japanese for "Electronic Emoticons". There are currently more than 100 smileys and emoticons that you can enable on your iOS device, be it iPh...