Manton ReeceUser experience, Mac programming, feature animation, and other personal views.Fancy-pants productivity- March 14, 2008 There are a few things in this post by Ryan Norbauer (via 37signals) that bother me. One is this idea that "code is meant to be read by humans first and computers only secondarily". I understand what he is getting at, but even though I respect new advances in productivity, we have to be very careful to keep our core priorities. There's a word for when the balance shifts away from the user and more to us as programmers: selfishness. Imagine two programs: one is ugly and hard to read, but it...http://www.manton.org/2008/03/fancypants_productivity.html iPhone SDK and NDAs- March 13, 2008 Craig Hockenberry half-joked on Twitter about the iPhone SDK non-disclosure agreement and it reminded me of one of my personal annoyances in the development community: we tend to take NDAs very seriously. I've always been impressed by how Scott Stevenson in particular can write thoughtful articles about Mac software development that go out of their way to tiptoe around unannounced APIs. In his latest excellent introduction to the iPhone SDK, there are no less than 3 mentions of the NDA in the...http://www.manton.org/2008/03/iphone_sdk_and_ndas.html |