New Year Hot Girls In The Uk: abril 2010

jueves, 29 de abril de 2010

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Posted: 29 Apr 2010 06:56 AM PDT

I enjoyed a rare day out of the office yesterday to attend the first DIBI (Design It, Build It) web conference. As it occurred in my hometown of Newcastle, it would’ve been rude not to go along!

My last web conference was nearly three years ago (the Highland Fling back in 2007), so it was good to venture out again and meet like-minded souls. The line-up was great (Andy Clarke, Peter-Paul Koch, Dan Rubin, Tim Van Damme to name but a few), the venue was excellent (The Sage Gateshead) and the hospitality (free WiFi, Red Bull and muffins) was spot-on. Special mention also to The Sancho Plan who finished things off in some style.

My only real beef was the two-track schedule - you chose either the ‘Design’ track or the ‘Development’ track. You could easily shift between the two halls but it seemed an awkward format to me.

There were several occasions when I had to choose between two great sessions, and, as a result, you felt a bit frustrated about the one you had to miss out on. You also had the situation at the end of talks where people were moving to and from each hall, which caused some disruption.

Despite this, it was a great conference and it was good to hear there’ll be another coming along in 2011.

miércoles, 28 de abril de 2010

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Transmit 4 and BBEdit 9.5

Posted: 27 Apr 2010 04:10 PM PDT

It’s been a good day to be a Mac-based developer. Panic released a big update to their file-transfer app, Transmit, and Bare Bones released version 9.5 of their powerful text editor, BBEdit.

The new features in Transmit 4 are great - particularly the Disks feature which lets you mount a remote server (such as an Amazon S3 bucket) as a volume on your desktop. You can then easily drag and drop files to it in the Finder (the Transmit app doesn’t even need to be running).

I’m still getting used to the UI and navigation changes (it took me a while to find the ‘disconnect’ button - it’s changed to an ‘eject’ style button in the top right of the remote server pane) but overall it’s very impressive.

It’s also interesting to compare the launch of both apps - Transmit 4 was announced to a big fanfare, but, in contrast, Bare Bones released BBEdit 9.5 without hardly a whisper.

Panic also created a fantastic Javascript-enhanced webpage announcing all the new features, whereas Bare Bones were happy to simply publish a long list of release notes (though they are wonderfully verbose - including this obscure WoW reference).