You may recall that we’ve been migrating our clients off of Flash already — mostly at their own request. Adobe’s announcement yesterday that they were going to stop supporting a mobile device version of the Flash player will only serve to hasten that. Protestations otherwise, it’s hard to [...]

Apple certainly thinks the future is in the clouds, but for some of us that future may be more distant than we’d like. During the iOS 5 beta period I played around with cloud backups, both backing up to and restoring from Apple’s remote service. While the idea is nice, you better have a [...]

Writing for Wired’s gadget lab, Christina Bonnington starts her comparison of the iPhone 4S and other smartphones thus:

First, let’s compare these guys on what matters most: Their insides.

After comparing the iPhone to the others based on the CPU and battery, Bonnington then moves on to comparing screen size, camera, and network capability. [...]

There are now lots of eulogies to Steve Jobs. When was the last time the loss of a public figure was this strongly felt? Ronald Regan, perhaps, although I watched that loss from the outside. Jobs is different for me. Tim Berners-Lee may have created my career, but Jobs taught me what computers were for.

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Yesterday I said goodbye to all of my Facebook friends. I hope to see them all on Twitter or Google Plus soon anyway, but I don’t expect to have anything to do with Facebook beyond what’s required in an professional capacity. (See also: Social Media Apology.) It’s not because they recently screwed up [...]

When I switched back to Macs some four years ago I was a little put off by how few options I had. But Peter Bright at Ars Technica says that narrow product line might be the reason Apple is making money.

The question I asked myself: do I want to work on or [...]

… which is to say “slowly, and not without effort.”

David Woods says on the Modea weblog that there’s still a place for Flash in web development:

Developers should be familiar with both to avoid shunning either technology for the wrong reasons (like hype or trends). Rejoice over having a new [...]

The key lesson of Apple under Jobs is that conventional business wisdom and conventional business practice is generally wrong. Tech writers have spent the last decade advising Apple to do the traditional business move. Compete on price. Compete on feature sets. License the iPhone. Stop making hardware. Pay out dividends. Stay out of media. Divest [...]

I’m an old vet of OS wars. Back in my day, the question wasn’t Mac Vs. Windows, it was Mac vs. DOS — with a few CP/M die-hards holding on to their Osbournes. Linux was still seven years away when I engaged in my first platform argument.

What I’m trying to say is [...]

I bet someone read that headline and said “who uses the waterfall model any more?” Plenty of people. If that person was you, congratulations on working in a more enlightened atmosphere. Unfortunately the waterfall model survives, and plenty of organizations still use it in web development either intentionally or by accident. It is, after all, [...]