Chegs

Oct
27th

Thu

the understatement: Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support

What a sad graph for Android users (including myself). I am strongly considering moving over to the iPhone but would prefer not to. Let’s hope Google figures their stuff out, and soon.

understatementblog:

The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…

May
12th

Thu

20 Web Services Not Available in Estonia

luminarious:

These fine services are not available in Estonia, despite us being a EU country with otherwise excellent access to Internet. They don’t want our money, but get angry when we resort to piracy.
iTunes
~~Android Market~~ Fixed yesterday!
Windows Phone 7 Marketplace
Sony Playstation Store
Xbox Live Arcade
Nintento Wii Store
Amazon App Store
Amazon MP3 Store
Amazon Kindle 3G
Samsung Bada Apps Pandora Radio
Spotify
Hulu
Netflix
Vudu
Vevo
Lovefilm
BBC iPlayer
ABC Player
NBC Video

May
5th

Thu

taitems:

My role with my last employer involved creating websites, applications and widgets with front end technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Other parts of my job included code reviewing commits and running training exercises to spread the knowledge around. When I handed in my three weeks notice, they were quick to ask me to write up guidelines on the best way to write maintainable, clean and accessible code. What follows is a GitHub hosted document, allowing for revisions, forking and issue logging - a concept I “borrowed” from the great resource JavaScript Garden.

Considering my knowledge is all gleamed from many years of reading Hacker News and following Twitter links, it definitely has holes. I am completely self taught in that regard. So although I can’t vouch for the accuracy of all the information, hopefully you can log any corrections or raise any questions via the issues interface.

View Front End Development Guidelines.

Apr
12th

Tue

gregschlom: How to hack yourself a standing desk in 3 easy steps - an illustrated guide

This is hilarious but awesome. I will try this one day.

gregschlom:

Standing desks are ~~the latest trend~~ all the rage in modern software development. All the cool guys are coding standing now.

Look:

A typical startup in Coalbrookdale, England, circa 1760. See any Aeron chairs? Nope. Standing desks? Check.

The thing is:

You’ll eventually get tired of…

Mar
31st

Thu

Mike Rotman: How to leave GoDaddy.com / Transfer Your Domain Name

mikerotman:

If you are here you have probably already seen the elephant being slaughtered by godaddy.com CEO Bob Parsons. Good. because I won’t be putting it up here. I turn my eyes away if someone swats a fly- so no need to watch it again. And yes, I am a 21 year vegetarian, but I don’t preach what I do- I…

Mar
28th

Mon

Google UX Fail with a Google Doc embed. It requires me to login to view a SlideShare-like presentation. (Found on HTML5Boilerplate Mobile)

Mar
8th

Tue

Just doing it

I decided to get back into the blogging game. Let’s see how long I last.