David Emery Onlinefurbo.org · Brain surgeons
Always a bit of a shock to find someone that actually knows what they’re talking about.
Visit ➔“As someone who has been involved in iPhone development for the past six months, please let me offer you a healthy dose of reality.
Twitterrific on the iPhone could definitely make use of a background process to gather new tweets. In fact, a prototype version of the software did just that. And it was a huge design failure: after doing XML queries every 5 minutes, the phone’s battery was almost dead after 4 hours.”
Flickr Video Said To Be Launching Next Month
I’m interested to see what the Flickr team can come up with when it comes to video; I think Vimeo comes closest to getting it ‘right’ but there’s still a lot of room for Flickr-style improvement.
Visit ➔The Dry Side
A perfect example of good design, and improving something that no one would think needs improving.
Visit ➔Gravatar Blog: Big changes afoot
Nice to see Gravatar back up and running properly, and I’m sure the re-write from RoR to PHP had nothing to do with it being nice and fast now. Nothing at all. Not one bit.
I’ve now got Gravatar’s up and running here, using the nice and simple GlxGravatar Textpattern plugin. Took all of 5 mins to implement, so there’s no excuse, folks.
Visit ➔Out of Five | Stuff reviewed through Twitter
Simple service that lets you review things via Twitter. More ambient information etc…
Visit ➔Operation Toblerone: Yahoo Closing London Offices
Yahoo! is one of the main players in the London web dev scene so this is going to shake things up a bit. While obviously it’s going to be a bit of a kick in the teeth for those that work there, I can’t help but feel that this is probably a good thing in the long term – it’s not as though any of them will have problems getting jobs (why aren’t we hiring now, god darn it…).
Better to get out early…
Update: I’m now hearing that the engineering teams are staying put – it’s just the ‘HQ’ functions that are moving – which is obviously good news.
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