February 26, 2012
motorola xoom : antiusable hardware
... or why did motorola hide standby-poweron button on the _reverse_, so that you have to turn the device over each time it gone sleep?!
February 11, 2012
Apple developer docs... (or: vs Java dev docs)
A thoughts of an old-school Java programmer while learning some iOS
..are not designed to be a fast-search-answer book. (search behaves bad actually). It's a tightly linked bundle of articles (with lots of html pop-up annotations!), which you have to read one after anohter. This creates a rich market of developers books, of course. But I'm not fan of overspending :-)
This stands in direct opposition to how Sun's Java docs were presented: to understand how to use library, one need to read only the class/interface descriptions (I can't remember I read package docs, anyone?); each class description is a very short and contains the concept of how it iteracts with others.
I think it comes from language differences: Java presents more plain classes without multi-file classes (.h, .m in ObjectiveC). So with proposed (by Sun?) javadoc inline style documentation Java classes are much easier to describe and support the changes.
Anyway, I spend more time to find information even in cases when I know what I'm looking for, comparing to Java SDK or ME docs or even Android docs.
For the Apple iOS docs, single place for navigating across whole bundle of articles could be very good.
..are not designed to be a fast-search-answer book. (search behaves bad actually). It's a tightly linked bundle of articles (with lots of html pop-up annotations!), which you have to read one after anohter. This creates a rich market of developers books, of course. But I'm not fan of overspending :-)
This stands in direct opposition to how Sun's Java docs were presented: to understand how to use library, one need to read only the class/interface descriptions (I can't remember I read package docs, anyone?); each class description is a very short and contains the concept of how it iteracts with others.
I think it comes from language differences: Java presents more plain classes without multi-file classes (.h, .m in ObjectiveC). So with proposed (by Sun?) javadoc inline style documentation Java classes are much easier to describe and support the changes.
Anyway, I spend more time to find information even in cases when I know what I'm looking for, comparing to Java SDK or ME docs or even Android docs.
For the Apple iOS docs, single place for navigating across whole bundle of articles could be very good.
Labels: docs, ios, java, programming
Bookmark: "Model-view-controller" pattern described
Don't remember who asked me for this, here's MVC description:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/General/Conceptual/DevPedia-CocoaCore/MVC.html
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/General/Conceptual/DevPedia-CocoaCore/MVC.html
some thoughts about business
1. earn before you spend: prepaid! (example: dell online ordering, telcos prepaid simcards)
2. producing recurring revenues
3. make others do work, earn money (IKEA, linux)
4. hide protection from competitors inside business model
5. don't sell or market by yourself: make others do it (c)
6. anyway, do what people want with passion - that is where money belongs to (c)
2. producing recurring revenues
3. make others do work, earn money (IKEA, linux)
4. hide protection from competitors inside business model
5. don't sell or market by yourself: make others do it (c)
6. anyway, do what people want with passion - that is where money belongs to (c)
online: TeX symbol classifier
Wow: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html:
Labels: bookmarks, classifier, detexify, online, symbol
ios vs macos painting: coordinate systems
I think this image is more than enough to understand the difference:
Labels: apple, coordinate, feelthedifference, ios, macos, shit
apple attakez!
I've just understood that I look like an apple fan boy: sitting in a caffeshop using macbook, iphone and more: listening music on ipod. WTF, shit, how'd that happaned? (and when?) I never meant that!
Labels: apple, disclaimer, selfirony
singapore tennis club @ bukit timah rd
near allocasia: raffles tennis club, tel 63232 323
теннисный зал бердск
телефон 334 07 21
singapore good photo shops
john 3:16 (5 level funan)
alan photo (ground level simlim)
alan photo (ground level simlim)
February 10, 2012
Video: timelapse from ISS' low-light camera
Video Aug-Oct 2011 by 28th & 29th ISS crew:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDEmtWLwMOM
Or watch here (I highly recommend full-screen!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDEmtWLwMOM
Or watch here (I highly recommend full-screen!):
February 9, 2012
The correct russian keyboard layout in macosx
"Нормальная" русская раскладка под macosx называется "Russian-PC", а не просто "Russian", как вы могли неправильно подумать :) иначе допсимволы (% например) скорее всего не будут совпадать с нарисованными.
