The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it. Steve Jobs ( Fortune, Jan. 24, 2000 )
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. Steve Jobs ( Stanford commencement speech, June 2005 )
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle. ...
If you’re the smartest guy in the room, you’re in the wrong room. Fabien Lasserre ( @flhke ) on Twitter
8 Best Practices for Deploying a Top-Ranked Mobile App Developing a mobile app is the easy part. Getting that app noticed is difficult. And getting the app to go viral is like winning the lottery. Yet many developers get millions of downloads time after time. How?
The Presentation That Inspired Google+ Back when he worked at Google, Facebook product manger Paul Adams did a bunch of research that he says “formed a cornerstone of the Google social strategy.” Its basic premise was that while “the social web is not going away,” Facebook and other social networks "donʼt match the social networks we already have offline."
No color, no taste, no smell The standard of perfection for vodka ( Vodka Nation )
Heath Ledger as the Joker skate boarding over Christian Bale as Batman while they take a break on the set of The Dark Knight. You can all quit your lives now. Single greatest picture in the history of pictures and internet.
How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers – HTML5 Rocks … learning the internals of browser operations helps you make better decisions and know the justifications behind development best practices.
HOWTO Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack rentzsch : Good is the enemy of Great Latin-1 is the enemy of UTF-8 You write web apps. You understand the web is global, and want to support internationalization. You want UTF-8. UTF-8 is extremely sane. Well, as sane as an encoding can be that features backwards-compatibility with ASCII. What follows is a playbook to win your pervasive-UTF-8 battle.
An apostrophe is the difference between a business that knows its shit and a business that knows it’s shit Sam Tanner (@sam_tanner)
Plot multiple locations on Google Maps The problem is, you can’t plot more than one location on Google Maps. Just put each address you want to plot on its own line in the box below, and click Submit.
NINJA: No Income, No Jobs or Assets Charles Morris , “The Trillion Dollar Meltdown” book (2008)
WebSequenceDiagrams.com – Draw and Edit Sequence Diagrams in seconds Don’t waste your afternoon drawing UML Sequence Diagrams. Just enter the description here, and click “draw”. The SD/MSC Generator is an easy alternative to using mouse-centric tools like Microsoft Visio.
freshorphresh : Presenting Horrible Movie Clichés, an illustrated guide, brought to you by the New York International Latino Film Festival.
Twitpic, Twitter, Lockerz, YFrog, Mobypic – good or bad? | Jon Boyes – Photographer – blog Unfortunately it’s a huge #FAIL for Twitpic, Twitter and Lockerz and a big #WIN for Mobypicture and Yfrog.
The US Debt Ceiling US Debt Ceiling vs GDP … from several places
Network Link Conditioner in Lion » Matt Legend Gemmell Extremely handy for simulating less than optimal network conditions while testing an app.
WebPutty: Simple, fast, and powerful CSS editing and hosting. WebPutty gives you a syntax-highlighting CSS editor you can use from anywhere, the power of SCSS and Compass, a side-by-side preview pane, and instant publishing with minification, compression, and automatic cache control.
The software is wrong, not the people. Matt Mullenweg (vai Joe Flood )