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- Flash 10 Still a Poor Performer on Macs and Linux
YouTube recently switched to a widescreen format and while browsing around to test out the quality I was still shocked at the poor performance of Flash on a Mac, specifically with video. The playback is jerky and constantly pauses in both Firefox and Safari. Restarting the browser helps a bit but by no means solves [...]
- 2.2 Podcasts – Right Order but Download Flaw
The iPhone 2.2 update brought a handful of new features including a few updates to the iPod application. I gladly realized after a day of listening to Podcasts that episodes appear in the order they were downloaded. This means that you can start at the oldest and not have to skip backwards to listen to [...]
- Rogers un-connected calls?
For the past few weeks I’ve noticed a higher percentage of calls to my iPhone on Rogers that go straight to voicemail without ringing the phone. These occur in metro Toronto (at least) with full 3G signal strength. I am sometimes actively using the phone either with data or an application but more often than [...]
- The Developer Hat
Recently our small team’s development schedule was seriously slipping. Although the Mythical Man Month tells us adding resources doesn’t make a project go faster I had enough product and domain knowledge to speed things up and start coding. It’s been been almost a year since I’ve been coding as part of a project and since [...]
