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Develop Cross Platform Mobile Apps and Games | Corona Labs

Interesting cross-platform mobile development kit, which compiles to native binaries. Uses the Lua programming language.

Corona dramatically boosts your productivity. Thanks to our elegant APIs, tasks like animating objects, creating UI widgets or enabling physics take only a few lines of code.

Corona is the best solution for developing cross-platform apps for all major platforms and devices. Write once and build to iOS, Android, Kindle Fire and NOOK at the touch of a button. Corona makes dealing with different device sizes and resolutions easy.

Corona is built on industry standards including OpenGL, OpenAL, Google Maps, Box2D, Facebook, Game Center, in-app purchases and much more.

CSV Free online Converter - QIF - OFX - NEW

This is a FREE [online] tool to convert CSV files from Paypal, eBay or any Bank Institution into QIF files to import into MS Money, Quicken, Sage, GNUCash or any Accounting Program

… there are three methods of Customer Validation that increase in the cost of execution. None of them involve writing code, which is even more expensive to execute.
1. Exploration Method
The goal of exploration is to collect a lot of data on potential problem sets within a given industry or customer type, and to collect detailed stories on customer behavior.
2. Pitch Method
The Pitch method is about getting customers to give you a form of currency.
3. Concierge Method
Concierge is delivering your product through a physical service, hand-holding the customer. This method has also been referred to as Wizard of Oz, ie. faking the product with as little technology as possible.

(via How to Get Out of the Building with the Validation Board)

See also Tips on choosing your customer learning method for help on how to choose which method is appropriate.

… there are three methods of Customer Validation that increase in the cost of execution. None of them involve writing code, which is even more expensive to execute.

1. Exploration Method

The goal of exploration is to collect a lot of data on potential problem sets within a given industry or customer type, and to collect detailed stories on customer behavior.

2. Pitch Method

The Pitch method is about getting customers to give you a form of currency.

3. Concierge Method

Concierge is delivering your product through a physical service, hand-holding the customer. This method has also been referred to as Wizard of Oz, ie. faking the product with as little technology as possible.

(via How to Get Out of the Building with the Validation Board)

See also Tips on choosing your customer learning method for help on how to choose which method is appropriate.

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POP - Prototyping on Paper | iPhone App Prototyping Made Easy

Design on Paper

Take Pictures

Simulate

Ratchet

Prototype iPhone apps with simple HTML, CSS, and JS components.

Built by the guys who brought us Twitter Bootstrap.

Zato | home page

The next generation ESB and application server written in Python and released under a commercial-friendly LGPL license.

Projects - IndieWebCamp

Tools and resources to “Own Your Data” while still connecting with the outside world in general.

A list of projects supporting or being actively used by IndieWebCamp attendees to create the Indie Web.

Watch — Everything is a Remix

Everything is a Remix is produced by me, Kirby Ferguson, a New York-based filmmaker. This site is a companion piece to the four-part video series.

Letras que caem, duplas grafias que ficam - Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa

O Acordo Ortográfico prevê alterações em cerca de 1,6 por cento das palavras que constituem o léxico da chamada variante luso-africana do português (que engloba Timor e Macau), ao passo que, na variante brasileira, apenas 0,5 por cento das palavras irão passar a ser escritas doutra maneira. O documento consagra ainda uma dupla grafia para algumas palavras que continuarão a escrever-se diversamente em Portugal e no Brasil. Seguem-se algumas das propostas de alteração mais relevantes para o português de Portugal.

First and foremost, all we really did was our best implementation of what Chris Phin asked all App Makers to do in his talk at NSConference 5. Our “perfect press release,” was literally just a point for point copy of the ideal press release from his talk, which I hope nobody will mind me sharing here.

(via Launch Thanks | mur.mu.rs)

First and foremost, all we really did was our best implementation of what Chris Phin asked all App Makers to do in his talk at NSConference 5. Our “perfect press release,” was literally just a point for point copy of the ideal press release from his talk, which I hope nobody will mind me sharing here.

(via Launch Thanks | mur.mu.rs)

Thoughts And Articles On Pricing | Software Indie

Nice roundup of articles of software pricing.

“A campanha do colesterol é o maior escândalo médico do nosso tempo” - Activa.pt

Entrevista a Uffe Ranskov, investigador dinamarquês e fundador da Liga Internacional dos Céticos do Colesterol que defende que o colesterol alto não é causa mas apenas um sintoma das doenças cardiovasculares.

Ver também O mito do colesterol.

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(via I’llTakeTen.com :: Shut Up And Take My Money!)

In classic ThinkGeek :: Stuff for Smart Masses fashion :-)

Wine tasting is bullshit. Here's why.

HOWEVER, it bears emphatic mentioning that whether this suggests more expensive wines are objectively better (which it doesn’t) is irrelevant, because among amateur wine drinkers (which, let’s face it, you are), the survey found the opposite, i.e. a negative correlation between price and happiness, “suggesting that individuals on average enjoy more expensive wines slightly less.”

Though some people seem to know what they’re talking about: Ep#2.10 CastelGiocondo Brunello Di Montalcino 2005