http://almaer.com/blog blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:41:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Euteller is a popular payment option for Finnish online casino gamers - and for good reason. After all, this is a fully Finnish bank that has handled online banking deposits consistently quickly and securely since its inception. Today, Euteller provides Express immediate payments in the Pay n Play format. Euteller ... http://almaer.com/blog/more-inputs-an-ios-opportunity Coding has a voice too, don't you think? -- @tobie Man, I was thinking about something just like that as I was reading Steve Yegge's latest essay on the parallels of the political spectrum to the developer platform spectrum. I am always very happy to see a new post from Mr. ... http://almaer.com/blog/your-coding-voice The status bar should be treated with respect. It drives me nuts when it is abused, and it can give delight when it is used well. One of the lil hacks I really liked came from Joel Bernstein when in developer mode only, you get to see if you are ... http://almaer.com/blog/respect-the-users-status-bar-man-the-olympics-app-can-suck-cant-it Google Plus. In a world of Facebook, Twitter, Path.... Google Plus is yet another option that sits in between Twitter and Facebook for me. It has great technology (would love to have more than 140 characters on Twitter and decent comments etc) and features (e.g. hangouts). But, for now I don't ... http://almaer.com/blog/google-plus-stop-distracting-me-on-google-properties WWDC and Google I/O have come and gone. At first I was disappointed with both, but then I sat back to think about what an amazing time we are in with mobile and computing. I don't know about you, but I feel like the battle of the full touch screen ... http://almaer.com/blog/inputs-integrations-smart-services-and-ecosystem-the-next-ios-and-android-battles Really impressed by seamless Nexus Q setup and integration with Jelly Bean. Not happy. Life was simpler when iOS was clearly better. ;-)— bgalbs (@bgalbs) June 29, 2012 You can argue about iOS vs. Android. Ben would still come down on the iOS side, but you can see that he is ... http://almaer.com/blog/the-software-platform-war-seeing-a-cool-vhs-player-with-your-betamax-collection-behind-you It is easy to make fun of the Android WebView. Ben and I had a slide on that in our talk yesterday. Painful, but easy. It's almost as though the Android wing of Google doesn't want the Web to be a great platform :/ We have a big fight for maps ... http://almaer.com/blog/i-will-lay-off-of-android-webview-and-instead-hit-google-maps Tools enables new ways to build. Distributed version control and the tools that are enabled on that platform (as highlighted by Github) have hit mainstream. Some graybeards will scoff and talk about how they did this and more decades ago.... And they typed up hill both ways! Now, it is ... http://almaer.com/blog/social-development-adds-the-third-option-friends-can-now-fork As a company, do you focus on the customer? Many companies do so only when the focus is to lock in the customer. How many services have you used that when it came to leaving said service you ended up running around like a blue arsed fly on their Web ... http://almaer.com/blog/a-touch-of-class-customer-driven-design-at-work I have been thinking about the shape of teams. I have built software products in teams as small as 1, and as large as "I don't actually know everyone who is involved in this project". You are probably not shocked that I prefer closer to 1 than infinity (ignoring the ... http://almaer.com/blog/the-product-engineer