Author Archives: bananaranha

TextMate

Posted on December 21, 2010 by bananaranha

The missing in action editor for OS X.

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OSS “sexual harassment”

Posted on December 3, 2010 by bananaranha

LWN runs a story about “sexual harassment” in open source conferences. Now, we all know using some OSS software amounts to sexual harassment, but apparently the problem is more widespread in OSS culture in general. And not only because someone … Continue reading →

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Douche of the week: David S.

Posted on November 24, 2010 by bananaranha

You can scout the whole of the intertubes, but you’ll be hard pressed to find a biggest sense of entitlement than that of a certain “David S.”, Dropbox customer. In a tedious, autistic, monotone, comment after comment, the guy rants … Continue reading →

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Marketing BS right out of Blackberry’s Playbook

Posted on November 16, 2010 by bananaranha

The Blackberry guys posted a video comparing the iPad to the Blackberry Playbook. According to the video, the Blackberry Playbook “renders web pages faster”, has “richer content” and “supports web standards better”. Besides the “richer content” angle, which basically translates … Continue reading →

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Recommendation of the week: Sinatra web microframework

Posted on November 16, 2010 by bananaranha

If you are building RESTful services or even small web apps, you could do a lot worse than check out Sinatra, a Ruby based web framework written in under 1500 lines of code. Sinatra is utterly simple and doesn’t get … Continue reading →

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Beatles catalog launches on iTunes; world yawns…

Posted on November 16, 2010 by bananaranha

As if anyone even remotely interested in the Beatles doesn’t already have those albums in several formats already, digital included.

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Why Apple’s stuff is not a la carte…

Posted on November 14, 2010 by bananaranha

Marco Arment, on an entirely unrelated topic: Removing choice is often beneficial for everyone if those making the choice are likely to choose against their best interests. It’s funny how this could also be applied to Apple’s product line.

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Tumblr’s “like” lists considered idiotic

Posted on November 2, 2010 by bananaranha

How exactly is this useful to me, the reader of the blog post?

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A cup of hot Chocolate…

Posted on November 2, 2010 by bananaranha

Leopard and Snow Leopard brought a lot of enhancements, new features and under the hood goodies for Cocoa development. From garbage collected Objective-C 2.0 to Grand Central Dispatch and blocks, programmers sure got a lot of shiny new toys to … Continue reading →

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Douche of the week

Posted on November 2, 2010 by bananaranha

There are many nominations, but Rémi Denis-Courmont wins hands down. This french VLC “contributor” has filed a copyright complaint with Apple over the VLC’s iOS port, with the hope of having the application removed from the App Store. Apparently he … Continue reading →

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