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Apple CEO Tim Cook Talks Steve Jobs, Apple Innovation and...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 21:39:47 +0100

Apple CEO Tim Cook Talks Steve Jobs, Apple Innovation and more

Tim Cook learned a lot from Steve Jobs, and one of the big takeaways seems to be: Don’t tip your hand.

The Apple CEO was unwilling to tackle questions about any future product plans during his first appearance on the D10 stage Wednesday night.

How to hire a lot of talented people, very quickly

Wed, 30 May 2012 09:54:46 +0100

How to hire a lot of talented people, very quickly:

ryanleecarson:

As readers of this blog know, we’re about to hit 40 people at Treehouse and we’ll be at 60 in three more months. There was only seven of us 12 months ago, so we’ve grown very fast.

How have we hired so many good people so quickly? Let me show you …

Finding the right people

We find new potential employees through four channels:

Tweeting from our personal and company accounts

Posting on job boards like 37signals and Authentic Jobs

Emailing our Treehouse Newsletter list

Personal recommendations from friends and the Team

Read on…

Joi Ito's Near-Perfect Explanation of the Next 100 Years

Fri, 25 May 2012 10:00:16 +0100

Joi Ito's Near-Perfect Explanation of the Next 100 Years:

One hundred years from now, the role of science and technology will be about becoming part of nature rather than trying to control it.

Refreshing to see mounted police in Newcastle

Wed, 23 May 2012 15:01:10 +0100

Refreshing to see mounted police in Newcastle

Photo

Thu, 17 May 2012 16:45:46 +0100

Kevin Systrom Interview: How It Feels To Sell Instagram For A...

Wed, 16 May 2012 18:18:11 +0100

Kevin Systrom Interview: How It Feels To Sell Instagram For A Billion Dollars.

F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Coding Standard Documentation

Sun, 13 May 2012 20:18:16 +0100

F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Coding Standard Documentation

iOS 6 "Sundance" Non-Google Maps

Sun, 13 May 2012 10:01:08 +0100

iOS 6 "Sundance" Non-Google Maps:

parislemon:

Mark Gurman:

According to trusted sources, Apple has an incredible headline feature in development for iOS 6: a completely in-house maps application. Apple will drop the Google Maps program running on iOS since 2007 in favor for a new Maps app with an Apple backend. The application design is said to be fairly similar to the current Google Maps program on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, but it is described as a much cleaner, faster, and more reliable experience.

The biggest step yet in the de-Googlification of iOS.

Baltimore Concert Venues to Try Reusable RFID Wristbands Instead of Tickets - RFID Journal

Fri, 11 May 2012 03:42:18 +0100

Baltimore Concert Venues to Try Reusable RFID Wristbands Instead of Tickets - RFID Journal:

smarterplanet:

MissionTix is providing wristbands with built-in RFID tags that venue operators can read via an Android-based NFC-enabled smartphone and a cloud-based software application.

Starting in June, concert goers at two Baltimore music venues will have the option of purchasing reusable RFID-enabled wristbands instead of tickets. The system enables concert promoters to validate tickets electronically using a Near Field Communication (NFC)-enabled phone—Google’s Samsung Galaxy Nexus—and an application loaded onto the phone that accesses a cloud-based server, on which is stored information regarding the tickets.

The service is being marketed by MissionTix, a Baltimore ticketing service that is employing NFC wristbands, the codeREADr application and hosted back-end software provided by Boston media content company Skycore. Although NFC-enabled ticketing for concerts and festivals is not a new concept, MissionTix’ version features a reusable silicon wristband that a consumer could load and reload with tickets for participating venues. Therefore, individuals attending concerts at one location could have the tickets validated there, and then use the same wristbands at another place and time. MissionTix envisions the solution being utilized not only for concerts, but eventually by merchants, enabling users to load a prepaid account and use the wristband to pay for purchases.

Amazing aerial footage of London

Tue, 08 May 2012 10:01:45 +0100

Amazing aerial footage of London

Lessons from the rise of Airbnb, by its co-founder Joe Gebbia

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:34:06 +0100

Lessons from the rise of Airbnb, by its co-founder Joe Gebbia

On a plane again

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:40:30 +0100

On a plane again

Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:00:53 +0100

Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours:

instagram-engineering:

On Tuesday we launched Instagram for Android, and it’s had a fantastic response so far. The last few weeks (on the infrastructure side) have been all about capacity planning and preparation to get everything in place, but on launch day itself the challenge is to find problems quickly, get to the…

On the new Fiat commercial’s set

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:40:32 +0100

On the new Fiat commercial’s set

Changing The Default Timezone For ActiveRecord

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:17:00 +0100

Run rake time:zones:all to list all possible timezones

Once you’ve identified a timezone using the above add the following to application.rb (replacing ‘Eastern Time (US & Canada)’ with your timezone name)

config.time_zone = 'Eastern Time (US & Canada)' config.active_record.default_timezone = 'Eastern Time (US & Canada)'

TEDxWarwick - Andy Stanford-Clark - Innovation Begins at...

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:17:54 +0100

TEDxWarwick - Andy Stanford-Clark - Innovation Begins at Home

Dr Andy Stanford-Clark is a Distinguished Engineer and Master Inventor at IBM UK. He specialises in technologies which are helping to make the planet smarter, by analysing and reacting to data from remote sensors. He is Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Visiting Professor at the University of Newcastle.

Mike's Blog: Why I Chose New York

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:57:06 +0100

Mike's Blog: Why I Chose New York:

michael-g-miller:

This semester, I’m graduating from a great school (Hook ‘Em!). Being in the tech field, the natural place to work after graduation is Silicon Valley. I’ve spent the past three summers out in the Valley interning for Apple and Facebook, where I had a blast, and met some of my best friends….

Cristiano Ronaldo vs Rafa Nadal

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:14:36 +0100

Cristiano Ronaldo vs Rafa Nadal

Audio

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 14:23:33 +0100

Google Wave misspells their own name in service cancellation...

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:10:38 +0000

Google Wave misspells their own name in service cancellation e-mail. Guess that just solidifies the idea that they don’t care about it anymore.