State of Technology #56

#at_other_places –

• This project shattered all funding records at Kickstarter
• Dijkstra Archive
• Valve Handbook for New Employees went viral
• Leemail is an excellent way to get proxy-email for subscriptions
• Google earns $2 per handset, Apple $575

 

#architecture – All the interesting problems are scalability problems, Alan Kay agrees – ‘99% or even 99.9% of the effort that goes into creating a large software system is not productive’

#code – All Cheat Sheets for a Web Developer – HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, mod_rewrite

 

#design – How doodling has become a key design tools for premier innovative companies

 

#essay – 10-minute primer on Good vs. Bad Strategy

 

#mobile – Suite of Design Principles and Mobile Tools from Nokia

#saas – Which sites display content in the ‘masonry’ (vertical bars) style, like Pinterest?

 

 

#service – What is (a) in a website vs. (b) what people look for

 

#social – ‘When you get a product free, you ARE the product’ – How apps sell you on Facebook, e.g., apps that get your ‘Religion and Politics’ –

 

#tool – For labeling XY chart data points in Excel

 

#tweaks n’ hacks – The camera that does not take pictures, it describes them.

#etc

• USB Typewriter for your iPad
• What type are you – a typographic matching game

#parting_thought – “Success is dangerous because often you don’t understand why you succeeded. You almost always know why you’ve failed” – Marc Pincus