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The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time. Tom Cargill, Bell Labs (the Ninety-ninety rule )

Visceral Apps and You — Mysterious Trousers All of the apps mentioned above exhibit that same kinetic/potential interplay. They’re the UX version of bubble wrap. So here’s my theory: I believe that introducing visceral elements into an app will take it past the point of just being awesome. It will make your app speak to the subconscious, built-in affinity that humans have for the physical properties I mentioned before.

Stripe: Payments for developers Stripe makes it easy to start accepting credit cards (…) today. **Full-stack payments ** You don’t need a merchant account or gateway. Stripe handles everything, including storing cards, subscriptions, and direct payouts to your bank account. Stripe.js lets you build your own payment forms while still avoiding PCI requirements. Available only in the US and Canada, unfortunately 🙁

Learn the ropes of Mobile Services with Brent Simmons | Windows Asure Mobile Services makes it easy to store data for your iOS app in the cloud, authenticate users, and send push notifications via APNS. Join Brent in a walkthrough of the basics.

Mantia » About App Icons I believe good app icons are most valuable for your customers, your everyday users, not first-time shoppers.

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Dev Rocket – Photoshop panel plugin for iOS developers A simplified solution to working between display resolutions, breaking down full ui designs into separate elements ready for Xcode and saving for the Retina display are just a few of the awesome features DevRocket brings to iOS designers currently using Photoshop.

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic Floating-point arithmetic is considered an esoteric subject by many people. This is rather surprising because floating-point is ubiquitous in computer systems. Almost every language has a floating-point datatype; computers from PCs to supercomputers have floating-point accelerators; most compilers will be called upon to compile floating-point algorithms from time to time; and virtually every operating system must respond to floating-point exceptions such as overflow. This paper presents a tutorial on those aspects of floating-point that have a direct impact on designers of computer systems. It begins with background on floating-point representation and rounding error, continues with a discussion of the IEEE floating-point standard, and concludes with numerous examples of how computer builders can better support floating-point. ...

Ry’s Objective-C Tutorial | RyPress This tutorial is the place to learn the Objective-C programming language. It’s designed to serve as both a concise quick-reference and a comprehensive introduction for newcomers to the language.

PHP: The Right Way There’s a lot of outdated information on the Web that leads new PHP users astray, propagating bad practices and bad code. This must stop. PHP: The Right Way is an easy-to-read, quick reference for PHP best practices, accepted coding standards, and links to authoritative tutorials around the Web.

Wireshark · Go deep. Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communications protocol development, and education.

Algolia Search for Mobiles The must-have search component for your mobile apps Get a lightweight, very fast and memory efficient embedded search engine with out-of-the-box auto-complete and approximate matching to handle typos.

iOS Fonts – A Place for Happy Typography A list of available system fonts in the different iOS versions.

Helpshift | The customer support help desk for native apps Helpshift makes it easy to create that exceptional experience in native mobile apps, transforming customers into the most passionate sales team you could hope for, and loyal for life.

39 Factors: Website Credibility Checklist | ConversionXL Let’s say you’re walking down the street. A twentie-something dude comes up to you – “hey, are you interested in a new iPhone 5? I’ll sell it to you for $20″. He pulls it out of his pocket and it looks legit. What do you do? My guess is that you won’t buy it – even through the price is amazing and you know it’s a good product. Why not? Because of lack of trust. Does it work? Is it stolen? What if it breaks the next day? Why so cheap? You’ll get all these questions in your head and since you don’t know the guy, you’ll probably pass. ...

HockeyApp – Perfect. Your. Apps. HockeyApp is the best way to distribute your betas and collect live crash reports for beta and release apps on Mac OS X, iOS and Android.

The Blind Shooting The Blind ∵ Stephen van Egmond’s weblog If you REALLY want to demonstrate this to yourself, turn on voiceover (…) and then triple-tap with three fingers. This activates the screen curtain, a privacy feature that keeps sighted people from snooping what you are doing with your phone. It will also give you a very good idea of what the iphone experience is like when you can’t see. ...

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Lean Designs Web Design Tool Lean Designs is a revolutionary new what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) web design tool built for web design professionals. Simply design your site using our HTML5-based editor and Lean Designs will automatically convert it to quality XHTML/CSS. Compared to designing high fidelity mockups with Photoshop and converting them to code by hand, Lean Designs is easier, faster, and more effective.