Author Archives: Wayne
Siri Is For Your Mom
As I watched the iPhone 4S and Siri announcement today, I was reminded 3 years ago when Siri was kind enough to drop by the AdMob offices. They came by to demo and get feedback on their app. At the … Continue reading
How Good is Your Idea?
You know what’s easy to come by? Ideas. You know what’s hard to come by? Ideas. I’m sure everybody has doc sitting in the cloud or on their desktop where they jot down the best ideas that come to mind. … Continue reading
UITapGestureRecognizer With Parameters
A small blog post for those attempting to create multiple UITapGestureRecognizers handled by one function. Coming from JavaScript, it’s easy to “attach” arbitrary data to elements or objects and references them on the event handler. (el.rel = ; var photoId … Continue reading
ChromeBook CR-48 On Vacation
The CR-48 is the pilot program for Google’s new Chrome initiative ChromeBook. CR-48 is a basic non-branded ChromeBook handed out to a lot of Googlers as a Beta program. I brought mine on vacation last week to Asia to experience … Continue reading
Don’t Just Build a Mobile App. Build a Business.
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at Google’s largest conference, Google IO. It was 30 minute overview of how to build a business instead of just building a mobile app. Don’t just build a mobile app. Build a … Continue reading
My Password Manager Solution
After Gawker had a massive security leak, I began to rethink my password solution. I had essentially 3 classes of passwords, high, medium, low. High security passwords, used for financial instituions, were unique for each site and saved in an … Continue reading
jQuery Mobile
jQuery Mobile Alpha was released yesterday and it’s very good for an alpha. I think John Resig and team have a long way to go but the project itself is very ambitious. A full mobile framework for iOS, Android, Blackberry, … Continue reading
A case for AngelGate being truthy
Watch Joel Spolsky and David Heinemeier Hansson battle it out over Facebook valuation. Save this on in the archives, we’ll see who is right in 5 years.
Winners of the node.js KO contest, very cool stuff.
Posterous shows us how it’s done with some awesome css3 buttons.
Not so fast, H.264 is still not “free forever”.
Seems the xsphere, is all a buzz with js/css compression via png. Turns out gzip is still far better, research here by Cal Henderson.
Part of the 1k JS comp, water ripple effect done in canvas.
Official jQuery Mobile project was just announced. Now we’ll have quality open source and commercial mobile javascript libraries (see Sencha).
A few CSS hacks later and you have an imageless loader. Useful for Android version older than 2.2 (Froyo) since they don’t support animated gifs.
Rock Paper Scissors Strategy, it’s more than just guessing.
7 security experts hold the keys to reboot the internet, sounds like this would make a great movie in about 10 years.
God’s Number, the minimum number of moves required to solve and Rubik’s Cube position, has finally been proven to be 20. Alternatively, the Devil’s number remains unsolved.
JavaScript Pull to Refresh
After seeing Leah Culver’s blog post entitled “iPhone Pull to Refresh“, I was disappointed when I clicked through to find out that it was an ObjC library and not a javascript library. So I set out to see how hard … Continue reading
