Official account of a web developer no one's heard of. Expect posts on Mobile, HTML5, CSS, SEO, social, jQuery, EECMS & crap music taste. Based in Sydney Australia. You can find me here --> twitter.com/jeremybrown Questions welcome
Applitude An Objective C runtime framework and a domain-specific language for iPhone application development. http://redd.it/fbwy4
Facebook focusing on HTML for mobile Due to the overhead of managing 7 native apps with a dynamic product http://t.co/EtyJHbw
Recycled material iPad, Mac book covers from an Australian company Created using left over Vinyl billboard signs and print blankets http://www.haul.com.au/
Sydney Python Users Group When: This Thursday 3rd Feb, 6:15pm Where: Google Sydney, Pyrmont
This month's meet features a Python IDE smackdown. If you want to defend your favourite IDE, let Dylan know on the sypy mailing list. Info and RSVP: http://sypy2011feb.eventbrite.com/
Objective-C Memory Management For Lazy People Very clear and simple article breaking down how to manage memory in Obj-C, but remember its a blog post not the law, the comments you could find useful. http://j.mp/hMuCwa
Facebook
How to successfully implement Facebook's Open Graph Perhaps a little basic and more for web but the implementation is the same for any Graph use. Sharing links this way should be implemented for any link for example the obvious use would be to share the itunes link to an app to encourage friends to download it.. http://blog.datalicious.com/how-to-successfully-implement-facebooks-open
But is this using too many plug-in apps? The new Deloitte Australia Facebook page integrates with Get Satisfaction, livestream video, Yammer, but does relying on these services make sense in reduced costs and constant feature development? http://on.fb.me/gSw0Da
Today's Quora: What's the future of the social media strategist role? Lots of great answers http://qr.ae/sKOP
Sydney Events
Ignite Sydney Looks to be some page pretty interesting speeches. When: Thursday, 10th Feb 2011 6:00 pm Where: Oxford Art Factory, 42 Oxford St, Sydney
Silicon Beach Drinks When: Friday, February 4, 2011 6:00 PM Where: Bar 77, Grace Hotel 77 York Street Sydney
Memes
"What is Internet?" In 1994, Katie Couric and her NBC news colleagues had no idea. http://arseh.at/3sn
Robot, perhaps the greatest movie ever created in India. Think an Indian Terminator except a little tubby with a skunk haircut and Matrix style skills, who can turn into a giant snake.
What is the most obvious red flag this guy is unstable.
Answer, he still uses Yahoo AND Internet Explorer.
Jem was my nickname all the way through primary school until "Jem" this Barbie for poor kids came out. I remember feeling humiliated being called Jem from that day on. "That was a dolls name", I mean why did Hasbro name a doll after me?
I was probably about 9 at the time, but to this day I'm still cautious about people who grow up with names for both sexes, like Lindsay. They must feel conflicted with their parents naming decision at some point after the thirtieth call center sales pitch mixing up Mr and Mrs Lindsay.
My wife and I are having a baby soon and I see the appeal, its a name you could both decide on, perhaps regardless of the sex.
Still, I'd never call any kid "Jem" its an awful nickname I can't ever remember liked having even before the lame 80's cartoon :)
Facebook like problem update Facebook have promised we will be able to like pages soon in iOS but Android is already able to. Moving forward to reduce the user experience of logging in constantly there is "Single Sign-On" allowing users to login with one click, no longer requiring a email/password to be entered. http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/423
Add a share feature to apps similar to the addthis.com button you find on websites Get share kit, and let people share on Delicious, Email, Facebook, Google Reader, Instapaper, Pinboard, Read It Later, Tumblr, Twitter http://www.getsharekit.com/
iPhone SDK Tutorial Application with a WebView and Refresh Button http://bit.ly/igZwMN
Smashing Magazine discusses Mobile Web Apps and Sencha Touch
Next Thursday Feb 3rd CocoaHeads Sydney Cocoaheads will commence meeting again for 2011 on Thursday February 3rd 6:30pm I believe they meet at Agency Rainford, 2-12 Foveaux St, Surry Hills, Sydney
iPhone Apps
"Discovr" iPad App Shows Fascinating Interactive Maps of Music. Find new music based on their relationship to your old bands. http://on.mash.to/e4DYfY
Wireless Charger for iPhone 4 Interesting, the Qi (pronounced “chee”) wireless charging standard applied to new devices so you no longer have to buy a sleeve. http://ow.ly/3IL22
Developer stuff
Facebook "Like" from within an iPhone app solution We may have a solution to our Facebook "like" issue from within an app http://twitter.com/sadatrahman responded with "Issue a POST on the graph API object with "likes" appended to the path. E.g. POSThttp://t.co/OoCeVjv[COMMENT ID]/likes" Or alternatively, you can always fall back on the REST API.
Top 10 apps built with Sencha touch Sencha, based in Sydney build some great dev tools. Sencha Touch is like JQueryMobile another mobile web to native app program. Here are some of the best apps people have made for Android/iPhones http://www.sencha.com/contest/
But does all this work on the iPad? Then is it really a flash alternative? This is an HTML5 infographic presentation. In my experience the iPad doesn't have the guts to handle HTML5/CSS3 when more than one thing moves on the screen. http://tylergaw.com/www/lab/themanfromhollywood/
Fantastic read, Isaac Hall’s answer to Dropbox: Why is Dropbox more popular than other tools with similar functionality? - Quora Found via http://twitter.com/kouky http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-than-other-tools-with-similar-functionality/answer/Isaac-Hall “Our company had too many features and this created confusion amongst our customer base. This in turn led to enough customer support issues that we couldn’t innovate on the product, we were too busy fixing things.” “In the end, it really came down to one incredibly genius idea: Dropbox limited its feature set on purpose. It had one folder and that folder always synced without any issues”
We believe running the like in a webview made more sense.
Unlike any Facebook Connect SDK we could save people logging in within the app by using their existing Safari Facebook cookie/session. One would assume most iPhone users would already be logged in to Facebook so this makes for a convenient user experience.
We can host a basic HTML page with the "like" button, which we can later update to our latest promotion message without having to force an update.
This doesn't seem to work as we had planned, our initial testing when clicking "Like" regardless of logged in status takes the user to a Facebook login screen to approve the "Like". Even within Safari when logged into Facebook in one window clicking "Like" in a second window forced user credentials.
Can anyone demonstrate an app that has a Facebook "Like" button? Or can you find any information of how to achieve this?
Create CSS3 animations Flash animators rejoice as this tools helps them create simple CSS3 animations with a timeline and not entirely in code. http://www.sencha.com/products/animator/
Uncensored Playboy Magazine Coming to iPad in March Wonder why the iPad and not the Phone? Uncensored content will obviously make Apple a lot of money. http://t.co/YdqYGrj
Events in Sydney
#PRINKS is back! First 2011 event for all PR, media, ads, mrkting, digital folk at 6.30pm Thursday 10th Feb http://on.fb.me/fG7vMa
More memes
Animal voices Brilliant & funny, what animals are saying.
A dancing cat and a beatboxing bar full of people Bjork & Spike Jonze together make a fantastic video. If you don't know who Spike Jonze is you probably should look at old skateboard & Beastie Boys videos.
Telstra and Whereis GPS iPhone app Featuring rich local content with Telstra's launch of Navigator on iOS http://bit.ly/hn2emE
Development stuff
iOS Developer Enterprise account's, now without a staff limit Anyone can have a iOS Developer Enterprise account. This means you can develop in-house applications to publish to employees. Originally Apple had limited to companies with more than 400 employees. This news has been confirmed in the support forums and the condition is no longer referenced in the current online documentation.
The only limitations to a Developer Enterprise account are: - The client needs the account and not the developer - Dun & Bradstreet (D-U-N-S) Number is required
So whats the catch? Well iOS Enterprise developer accounts can only develop internal apps and can't publish to App store
I'm really beginning to really love Quora.com Lots of very smart people, but sometimes smart people can be funny also. I found the question "Can anyone provide market sizing for hotcakes"
"Americans were 10 times more likely in 2007 to enjoy a product-based pancake experience than they were in 04"
It's not a scam, for this social network to work you give them your credit card number and everything you buy becomes a status post! Check out http://blippy.com/
They won't give away your credit card details, but a simple Google search might (Whoops well maybe they used to.)
That moment near the holidays when there’s suddenly cookies, chocolate, and candy everywhere. Roll those rum balls, sprinkle sparkles on the shortbread, and dump the bulk bag of candy canes in the crystal dish by the secretary’s desk.
Firstly, does anyone play Original Gangstaz? They are clogging up my Twitter! Seems either a very popular game or a lot of users have low value Twitter accounts they don't mind spamming from.
How A Startup Named Hipster Got 10K Signups In Two Days, Without Revealing What It Does http://bit.ly/hVKyp0 A few things here but I was interested in the use of language, if we phrasing it as "request an invite" instead of the typical "signup"
Internet meme news...
Open your Terminal and type "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl", you will watch Star Wars Episode IV in ASCII!
Guy builds his own toaster from scratch. All the way to mining the ore and smelting the metal! http://bit.ly/dPU2dV
More than 60 apps have been downloaded for every iOS device sold and the figure is increasing http://t.co/OYRz05s
Quora is an exploding social network that works to answer questions. Here are questions on iphone dev or want to see what others are asking http://www.quora.com/iPhone-Development?q=ios
Sydney Gophers When: this Wednesday - 19 Jaunary, 6pm Where: Google Sydney The Sydney Go User Group, called the Sydney Gophers, is having its inaugural meeting on the 19th of January 2011 at Google Sydney. The meeting will consist of some news about the Go project, a Q&A session, and a longer presentation from Andrew Gerrand titled "Practical Go Programming". The goal of these meetings is to establish an enthusiastic group of Go programmers that meet on a bi-monthly basis (or more, if there's the interest) to share their experiences, seek advice, find collaborators, or simply show off their projects. If you're interested in Go, come along! RSVP and details: http://sites.google.com/site/sydneygophers/events/inaugural-meetup-january-2010
Ignite Sydney When: Thursday 10 February, 6pm Where: Oxford Art Factory The idea is simple – make the presenters stick to a rigid format of 20 slides, each of which changes automatically after 15 seconds, giving a guaranteed 5 minute presentation. RSVP and info: http://www.ignitesydney.com
