I just ran into a 2004 piece of FREE software that I wanted to use, but can’t, because of poor choices by the original author. I’m posting this because I think the ideological reasons behind those choices are now “of historical interest only” and I’m liable to forget them completely […]
Monthly Archives: July 2012
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After trying 4 or 5 things from this several-years-old page on Firefox’s support forums, I finally hit upon one that worked: “For the heck of it tonight I clicked on Gmail in my calendar and it finally went to my gmail inbox.” In my case, I just went to Google […]
At 27″, it’s too big to “simply” take in to the Apple store. In desperation, I followed this support article from Apple that’s for older iMacs and officially no longer supported. Which is a pity, because in typical Apple fashion, they’ve deprecated an article that’s still accurate and useful. Following […]
Jon just published an interesting letter about the current state of cert processes for game consoles / platforms. There are some real problems with certification today. Unfortunately, Jon’s post doesn’t really touch upon them, and seems to go instead after the IMHO untrue and unhelpful claim that iOS is better […]
Building and Dismantling the Windows Advantage – a great article, telling the story in a mix of words and graphs. “The consequences are dire for Microsoft. The wiping out of any platform advantage around Windows will render it vulnerable to direct competition. This is not something it had to worry […]
In the past, I’ve had terrible advice from brilliant people. The best way to avoid that is to be careful to research the brilliant person and tailor your questions to avoid their weaknesses. Tomorrow I’ll be meeting a bunch of people at Google London’s open day. I started by writing […]
“I was in charge of scaling Dropbox … from roughly 4,000 to 40,000,000 users. … Here are some suggestions on scaling” The first section is a WTF – the guy advocates deliberately over-taxing your servers, without a good explanation. I’ve got some guesses at why they did it – but […]
Matteo Pericoli spent 3 years drawing central London from the Thames. His artwork is a 30-foot-long tapestry (that you can buy as a fold-out book). There’s an exhibition just opened today with the original artwork at Ealing Gallery. What’s amazing is when you see it up close just how tiny […]
The most popular hit for “unity gitignore” is a post on the official Unity forums that was written by someone who doesn’t seem to fully understand how git works. Which was a little disappointing. Before you commit anything to git, you MUST go into Unity’s menus and enable the “metadata” […]