There’s a recent post from Dermot Daly of Tapadoo making the argument that if you don’t update your iOS app to fit iOS 7’s new design, it’s going to be an insta-delete.
I think someone needs to take a deep breath and calm down. Read More
Over the last month, Linode has announced several major upgrades to their infrastructure that significantly raises the bar to compete in the VPS provider market. I moved from hosting my own servers out of my home office to Linode last summer and was happy to switch. Now Linode has improved the network, CPUs and RAM in every plan for essentially the same monthly price. Read More
In 2009, Peter Hosey wrote Warnings I turn on, and why. It remains an excellent explanation of why certain warnings, off by default, are a good idea to use. In it, he mentions the use of “treat warnings as errors” and calls it “hardass mode.” Read More
Mark Dalrymple, a co-founder of CocoaHeads, regular CocoaConf speaker and Big Nerd, recently wrote a series of posts about DTrace: Read More
Last night I ran into a vexing problem. I had an API endpoint in a Rails app I developed for a customer that accepts request parameters in both the classic application/x-www-form-urlencoded content type as well as application/json. JSON is a more compact format and is easier to scan when reading client logs, so it is now my preferred format for request POST data. Read More