They always come across as such well thought out sentences which he’s only just thought of. Genius.

Watching his talk at webstock was truly moving, when he mentioned about being scared when his dad died I seriously couldn’t stop crying. I’m in the same situation right now.

Right now.

It’s coming up to a year since my dad died, and I’m totally shitting myself as the one year on date nears. Maybe it’s because even though I have no idea what ‘getting my head over it’ is, feels I’ve not even scratched the surface of what feeling better is. I dunno, I should of got my head round it all after a year, right?

God I feel tired!

Off topic so lets reign this in a bit, a lot of the things within his talk hit home for me. Specially about just continuing to run through the shit storm no matter how scared you are.

* It’s been almost a week since I watched the video and I’ve put off writing this for no reason other than being scared. I’ll re-watch it and edit this post to better reflect other aspects of the talk

Isn’t it true that if you do something truly revolutionary, 80-90% of people won’t understand it initially?

First of go watch this, seriously do it.

There’s been a huge amount of fuss about the $41 million raised by the Bill Nguyen headed startup color.

Yes it’s an insane amount of money for, to be honest not much of a product at the moment. However if you look through the “OMG! how much”, “I don’t understand this” etc comments on twitter and iTunes reviews what you’ll find is a really impressive idea for a social network.

I love the idea of the your social network just building itself, you don’t meet someone new in the street and say, wait a second I can’t talk to you until you accept my invite, no friendships just happen. It’s an organic part of life and color is trying to emulate that.

They really should of sat on this a little longer and come out with a much fuller, more rounded product that is easier for people to understand, but did everyone get Twitter in the early days, I mean why the hell would I want to write just 140 characters, that’s just stupid right?

Anyways as Jason Calacanis puts it, I bet Zuckerberg is in a war room right now trying to work out how facebook can do this and quickly!

her recommendation was to stop using words like Products, Solutions, and Clients and start using words that actually describe what you offer. This way the search engine would list you higher for those terms.

A Link Labeled “Products” (or “Solutions” or “Clients”) is a Bad Idea (via boagworld)

However while checking network traffic with HTTP Watch I noticed it was making a request to mydomain.com/none, bit of a deal breaker when your replacing images for the corners with downloading your full 404 error page in the background.

I tracked the issue down to line 253

this.fillSrc = this.currentStyle.backgroundImage.replace(/^url("(.+)")$/, '$1');

As I understand it (and I suck at regex) if there is not a background-image declaration then it returns “none” therefore a simple check for it and changing the value to “” fixes it

This is what I changed it to:

this.fillSrc = ( this.currentStyle.backgroundImage.replace(/^url("(.+)")$/, '$1') == "none" ? "" : this.currentStyle.backgroundImage.replace(/^url("(.+)")$/, '$1') );

Simples

Totally gutted!

Taking global warming issues aside, that looks so cool!

Wow, it has been a month since I started my waking up at 5 am experiment, and I think it’s a good time to draw some conclusions.

First, I want to say that I started this experiment to see what would have happened if I started to wake up early. As a 23 years old guy, I knew that it would have been hard, but I decided to try anyway. After all, I knew I could have quit after 30 days if I wanted to, so it was not a lifetime commitment.

If you are just looking for the quick answer, yes, I’ll continue to wake up at 5 am now that the experiment is over. Keep reading if you want to find out why.

Thinking of trying this as I have so many ideas for projects that I would like to do but working on them after a 8/9 hour work day is just too difficult.

Thing is, will it last? Probably not but worth a go

Cannot wait to see this in new games, looks very promising!

However with web technologies such as HTML 5, CSS 3 and CSS animations very quickly the lines are being blurred.

Your even able using libraries such as jQtouch which allow you to very quickly create web applications, jQtouch is based on jQuery so if your familiar with that you’ll be off to a good start.

Pro’s for developing web applications

• No need for Apple approval, which is a major pain for a lot of developers
• Ability to upgrade the application and know that your users are using the latest version
• For web developers it means creating apps in the language your comfortable with. PHP, ASP, Python etc.

Con’s for developing web applications

• Restricted access to the iPhone’s hardware, although more and more libraries are giving better/more access to this
• If you wish to charge for your app then you will need to implement your own charging functionality
• You lose the frameworks within Cocoa which make building applications so easy/fun

The future?

I’m currently creating my own web application using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript however I plan on using PhoneGap which allows you to import your web application into xCode and run it as a native application. The benefits of this are pretty massive, mainly giving you easy access to monetize your app through the App Store.

I plan creating some tutorials for iPhone web applications such as:

• jQtouch basics
• Using HTML5 for offline data
• Creating your own animations
• Theme-ing in jQtouch

I’ll post more on my app when it’s nearer launch.