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Best summary so far of iPhone OS 4.0 license agreement vs Unity3D

tl:dr no one knows for sure yet but there sure are a lot of … opinions! Unity3D Answers: is-unity3d-banned-by-new-apple-sdk-licence It’s unlikely this language is aimed at Unity, but it could easily become collateral damage in this fight. Edit 12 April … Continue reading

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Prototyping

Via Steve Northover’s Inside SWT: The week was an almost perfect example of prototyping. The code we have is utter crap and we have cut every corner, however, we have learned the technology and explored the area. Prototyping is about … Continue reading

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Loading data model with Fixtures in Rails

I’m putting together a smallish data model in Rails. Some of my data is pre-existing, including a bunch of Items, some of which have SubItems. I found some hints on how to represent the initial data with YAML and to … Continue reading

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Economics of Cynicism

For some reason I thought Joel Spolsky was anti-Apple and pro-Microsoft. Now I realize he’s a cynical guy who used to write about software development, but who’s now busy running a small, successful software company, and who writes about talking … Continue reading

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Core Image-based image editors

A gaggle of sub-$100 image editors written atop Core Image: DrawIt – $49 LiveQuartz – Free ChocoFlop – Free Acorn – $39.95 Image Tricks – $14.95 Pixelmator – $59 I haven’t spent time on any of these but a comparison … Continue reading

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