Jonathan Kemp

"When people say they’re disappointed about the new iPhone, what they’re really saying is that..."

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:11:20 -0400

“When people say they’re disappointed about the new iPhone, what they’re really saying is that they’re disappointed it doesn’t look that much different from previous version(s). But again, not only is that true, Apple went out of their way to make sure that was the case.”

- Apple’s Magic Is In The Turn, Not The Prestige | TechCrunch

The h5bp ant build script

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:20:56 -0500

The h5bp ant build script:

Since we split out the build scripts from the main h5bp repo, you now have more options on how to integrate a build script into your project. Beyond the choice of technology, there’s also the choice of how to integrate the build script of choice into your h5bp project or local repo. There is nothing stopping you from manually dropping the build script in to your HTML5 Boilerplate project.

NSClassFromString to Check for Class Availability

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:25:26 -0500

NSClassFromString to Check for Class Availability:

This will check if the TWTweetComposeViewController is available by returning either a class object, or nil if the class is not loaded.

"regexp for valid e-mail address per HTML5 spec [a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&’* -/=?\^_`{|}~-]..."

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:48:05 -0500

“regexp for valid e-mail address per HTML5 spec [a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&’* -/=?\^_`{|}~-] @[a-zA-Z0-9-] (?:.[a-zA-Z0-9-] )*”

- Twitter / @html5: regexp for valid e-mail ad …

"Millionaire tax filers earn almost a quarter trillion dollars from their businesses. They must hire..."

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:16:12 -0500

“Millionaire tax filers earn almost a quarter trillion dollars from their businesses. They must hire hundreds of thousands of employees to do so.”

- Sen. Harry Reid’s Unicorns: Fact Checking A Whopper - Forbes

"One simple way to look at it is that there are far more people who’ve never bought an iPhone..."

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:35:25 -0500

“One simple way to look at it is that there are far more people who’ve never bought an iPhone and who’ve never bought an iPad, who will in the next five years than all of us who’ve already bought at least one to this point. And I don’t see how anybody can deny that, unless something unbelievable, dramatic changes. That’s certainly the way everything is going now. If you think this app store platform is big now, you really haven’t seen anything yet. At an event last week, Tim Cook had a line - he said, ‘This is an extraordinary time to be at Apple’. And He is definitely right. But I say to you, ‘This is an extraordinary time to be an Apple developer’ .This is the right time and the right place. This is a once in a career opportunity. This is like being a Rock and roll musician in the late sixties. This is like being a film maker in the seventies following Scorsese, Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas (when he was sane). If things go right, if things go the way I think they are going to go, these next five years, we are never going to work harder, we are never going to be under more pressure, we’re never going to be more stressed, we are never going to feel like we have to work faster and we are never going to have to solve tougher problems. We’re never going to have to move this fast. But the only thing any of us are going to regret is if we don’t aim big enough. If you don’t feel that you’re now in a position to do the best work of your entire career, to look back and say, ‘This was the time, I was there, I did this, I helped make this thing a reality’, then you need to find a new position. This chance will never come again. And we are lucky, we’re so unbelievably, incredibly lucky that it even came this once. Thank You.”

- Cycle Gap: John Gruber Has Some Career Advice For Developers

"Our projection also suggests that permissive licenses (specifically in this case,..."

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:37:33 -0500

“Our projection also suggests that permissive licenses (specifically in this case, MIT/Apache/BSD/Ms-PL) will account for close to 30% of all open source software by September 2012, up from 15% in June 2009 (we don’t have a figure for June 2008 unfortunately).”

- 451 CAOS Theory » On the continuing decline of the GPL

"You can also see what developers are licensing their projects under instead: permissive licenses..."

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:36:39 -0500

“You can also see what developers are licensing their projects under instead: permissive licenses such as the MIT, Apache (ASL), BSD, and Ms-PL group of licenses.”

- GPL, copyleft use declining faster than ever | ITworld

"What makes a program a Cocoa program? It’s not really the language, because you can use a variety of..."

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:57:26 -0500

“What makes a program a Cocoa program? It’s not really the language, because you can use a variety of languages in Cocoa development. It’s not the development tools, because you could create a Cocoa application from the command line (although that would be a complex, time-consuming task). No, what all Cocoa programs have in common—what makes them distinctive—is that they are composed of objects that inherit ultimately from the root class, NSObject, and that are ultimately based upon the Objective-C runtime. This statement is also true of all Cocoa frameworks.”

- Cocoa Fundamentals Guide: What Is Cocoa?

"More importantly, you should not assume that the performance of your application on Simulator is the..."

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:53:07 -0500

“More importantly, you should not assume that the performance of your application on Simulator is the same as it would be on the device. Simulator is essentially running your iOS application as a “guest” Mac OS X application. As such, it has a 4 GB memory partition and swap space available to it as it runs on a processor that is more powerful than the one on the device.”

- Cocoa Fundamentals Guide: What Is Cocoa?

"You should always perform the final phase of debugging on the device. Simulator does not perfectly..."

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:52:13 -0500

“You should always perform the final phase of debugging on the device. Simulator does not perfectly simulate the device. For example, you must use the mouse pointer instead of finger touches, and so manipulations of the interface requiring multiple fingers are not possible. In addition, Simulator does not use versions of the OpenGL framework that are specific to iOS, and it uses the Mac OS X versions of the Foundation, Core Foundation, and CFNetwork frameworks, as well as the Mac OS X version of libSystem.”

- Cocoa Fundamentals Guide: What Is Cocoa?

"Here’s a guess though: if we were to go back in time and influence the decision such that..."

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:26:22 -0500

“Here’s a guess though: if we were to go back in time and influence the decision such that browsers agreed to never use vendor prefixes, we would be worse off. Less browser innovation, less of the spec implemented, and more serious cross-browser problems when some browsers jump the gun and implement specs prematurely.”

- Vendor Prefixes, yadda yadda yadda, strong opinions | CSS-Tricks

"Mozilla, though, wants to make sure that version numbers are buried deep with its browser where only..."

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:22:50 -0400

“Mozilla, though, wants to make sure that version numbers are buried deep with its browser where only developers, enthusiasts, and sniffing code can call them up.”

- Mozilla takes Firefox version numbers to the next level… by removing them | ExtremeTech

"In fact, given the choice, I’m willing to bet that no person would choose to use IE6 as their main..."

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:55:12 -0400

“In fact, given the choice, I’m willing to bet that no person would choose to use IE6 as their main browser over any other browser. But that’s not the problem.”

- rem @ > 140 characters - What do you mean, you don’t like IE6? Really?

"By 2015, more people will access the Web via a mobile device – such as a smartphone, Kindle, iPad,..."

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:59:06 -0400

“By 2015, more people will access the Web via a mobile device – such as a smartphone, Kindle, iPad, video game or GPS system – than through traditional desktop Internet access.”

- Mobile to Surpass Web by 2015 - Memphis Daily News

"It used to be a self-hosted WordPress site, but self-hosted WordPress sites are so 2009. One too..."

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:23:46 -0400

“It used to be a self-hosted WordPress site, but self-hosted WordPress sites are so 2009. One too many attacks by hackers made it way more trouble than it seemed to be worth.”

- Adventures in JavaScript Development: Switching to Octopress

"Keeping up the pace with our new development cycle, today we release Aurora 7. Enjoy its new..."

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:51:24 -0400

“Keeping up the pace with our new development cycle, today we release Aurora 7. Enjoy its new features and performance improvements: CSS “text-overflow: ellipsis“, Navigation Timing API, reduced memory usage, a faster javascript parser, and the first steps of Azure, our new graphics API.”

- Aurora 7 is here ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog

HTML5 Parsing in IE10 - IEBlog

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:16:40 -0400

HTML5 Parsing in IE10 - IEBlog:

No more conditional comments in IE starting with v10. End of an era.

"With 3.2, we’re also dropping support for Internet Explorer 6, a 10-years-old outdated browser that..."

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:46:51 -0400

“With 3.2, we’re also dropping support for Internet Explorer 6, a 10-years-old outdated browser that even Microsoft is ready to leave behind.”

- WordPress › Are You Ready for WordPress 3.2?

"As of 3.2, you’ll need to be running PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0. As we mentioned almost a year ago when..."

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:46:33 -0400

“As of 3.2, you’ll need to be running PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0. As we mentioned almost a year ago when we announced that this change was coming, the percentage of people running older versions of PHP and MySQL is relatively low.”

- WordPress › Are You Ready for WordPress 3.2?