Archive for July, 2007

Suicidal Code

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Some code is not meant to live forever. In particular, during development phases of projects, it can be very reassuring to know that a particular release of an application will have a short life-cycle, because you’ll be (relatively) assured that users aren’t accidentally running crufty old (development!) versions of the app.

The basic means of accomplishing [...]

Wil Shipley On iPhone’s “SDK”

Monday, July 9th, 2007

If I wanted to program in a crappy language just so I could get more customers, I’d switch to Windows, not stinking JavaScript.

Pretty much sums it up for me, too. Wil makes this point and about a million other cutting and accurate remarks about Apple’s sloppy presentation of web development as an “SDK” for the [...]