Category Archives: Software
Picking a programming language based on personality
There are many ways to pick what programming language to use in a project or which one to learn and dedicate ones career to. Most programmers are naturally techie people who loves to argue for hours about the merits of certain syntax of a particular language or programming style. But I think that’s the wrong [...]
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How to build a web service in 8 hours
I was a big fan of Jaiku (here I am) and didn’t “get” Twitter until about a year ago when a friend showed me Tweetdeck. Aha! So that’s how you’re supposed to use it! Not through the web page twitter.com but by using a third party tool. I got so excited that I proclaimed Twitter [...]
Mobile Development SDKs compared: MoSync, PhoneGap and AppWhirl
Ever since I started my first consultancy business back in 1998, I’ve been thinking “next year will be the Year Of Mobile”. I’ve been wrong every year. Of course the sales of mobile phones have been great but in terms of mobile applications and the mobile web, things were more or less stuck in black [...]
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Flash Lite to Java Midlet in 10 seconds
I am currently helping Sony Ericsson as a community manager for their developer site. As part of this I’m blogging over at blogs.sonyericsson.com and just recently I wrote a short post on how to convert swf to jar for mobile phones. In case you didn’t know, Sony Ericsson has a framework embedded in most of [...]
Firefox 3.5: huge step forward
This article sums up all the new features in Firefox 3.5. An amazing list! HTML5, local data storage, vastly improved font support, location aware browsing and a bunch of new CSS-features are some of the highlight features. Adding it together sums up to a new web platform unlike anything we’ve seen before. The step forward [...]
How to become a good programmer
The blog CodeLathe offers some advice. This is true, and in line with the subtitle of this blog: Programming is purely a mental activity and has no relationship to any physical activity including typing. To become a better programmer, you will need to exercise and build up the part of the brain that deals with [...]
SEO-friendly titles in WordPress with Atahualpa theme and Headspace plugin
The Atahualpa theme for WordPress is a really powerful theme with lots of settings. But it doesn’t give you full control over the titles of posts and pages the way the Headspace plugin does. How the titles of your blog posts look like is important for search engine optimization. If you want your post to [...]
Building a working web service in 24 hours – straight
Happy business campers! It’s the middle of the night and I’m in a big hallroom full of people all of them hacking on their computers. The event is called 24 hours Business Camp and the goal is to bring 90 entrepreneurial people together and have them build a service in 24 hours. There are 52 [...]
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