Pinboard: bookmarks for mattb tagged 'dev'

Choices - Joel on Software

Every time you provide an option, you're asking the user to make a decision. That means they will have to think about something and decide about it. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but, in general, you should always try to minimize the number of decisions that people have to make.

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july 2009 by mattb

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Beta testing on iPhone 2.0

During Steve Jobs’ WWDC Keynote the announcement of Ad Hoc distribution meant one thing to most of us iPhone developers: beta testing. Unfortunately, the instructions for setting up this beta testing environment are not well documented. I used the following steps to setup a beta test for Twitterrific on the iPhone.

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july 2009 by mattb

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furbo.org · Dealing with memory loss: the cleanup
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july 2009 by mattb

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LESS - Leaner CSS

Less is Leaner css. Less extends css by adding: variables, mixins, operations and nested rules.

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june 2009 by mattb

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furbo.org · The final test

During the early days of iPhone software development, there were no mechanisms for doing beta tests. Those of us on the bleeding edge were developing apps with very little peer review and beta testing.

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june 2009 by mattb

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AppViz - Ideaswarm

AppViz helps iPhone developers download and visualize their application sales. Avoid the hassle of manual daily downloads. Instead, download your data from the web with the click of a button. Spend your time building applications, not spreadsheets.