News

• Bob Mansfield, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, to Retire
• Yahoo! Koprol will be discontinued on August 28, 2012
• Chrome from google it is just wrapper on iOS UIWebView
• RIM shares plunge almost 18 per cent on news of $518 million loss, 5,000 job cuts, delay of BB10 to 2013
• Microsoft installs Skype without consent automatically even on Windows Servers

Dev

• Simple Made Easy 1 hr presentation about importance of simplicity in design. From creator of Closure
• jQuery 2.0 will remove support of IF 6/7/8
• Font rendering philosophies of Windows & Mac OS X

Tech

• Minitel, France’s precursor to the Web, to go dark on June 30
• Why Microsoft murdered the Start button in Windows 8

Misc

• Visualization of Yahoo Mail

News

• Mozilla Launches a Speedy and Powerful Upgrade to Mobile Browsing with Firefox for Android 3.5 faster than native browser
• Sublime Text 2.0 Released I thin this is the best text editor for now
• Dropbox disconnects Boxopus for unwanted features. they was downloading torrents into your dropbox folder
• Apple released new applciation for Podcasts
• Google attempts to block U.S. iPhone & iPad shipments over 3G patents

Dev

• The Pokayoke Guide to Developing Software
• Handsontable is a minimalistic approach to Excel-like table editor in HTML
• Bridge is a new RPC framework for building modular services and scalable cross-language applications
• How to Prepare Your website for Retina Display

Startup

• Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012
• App Retention Increasing; iPhone Crushes Android

Misc

• GitHub supports SVN
• 3d maps of London Subway

News

• The future of Windows Phone: Complete Notes with Screenshots from the Windows Phone Summit finally they will allow native C/C++ code!
• Deployment Keys Now Available on Bitbucket
• Ex-Googlers launch Avocado, Web and mobile apps for couples, to rival Pear (sorry, Pair) social network for 2 people
• The Amazon API battle for the cloud rages on
• Free version of Steam for students, facilitates Portal 2-based lessons

Dev

• EditorConfig helps developers define and maintain consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs
• How Dropbox Did It and How Python Helped Python is our everything 
• Firefox Command Line for Developers 
• Scaling An Email-Based App From Scratch
• Zapier: An IFTTT For Business Users

Startup

• Managing Projects with GitHub

Misc

• Centenary of the birth of WWII code breaker Alan Turing
• How Augmented Reality Is Shaping the Future of Retail

News

• Twitter slowly unfolding its search ambitions
• Facebook Acquires Face.com now facebook will find all my pictures on the internet
• Hands-on with Microsoft Surface for Windows RT, Touch Cover and Type Cover

Dev

• How To Contribute To Open Source On Github
• Release 0.1 of CFFI to call C from Python
• Shumway: Mozilla’s Flash VM and Runtime in JavaScript

Startup

• Why we don’t sell ads WhatsApp blog post about monetization

Misc

• Falsehoods programmers believe about time

News

• Microsoft to unveil tablet with Barnes & Noble?

Dev

• ghost.py is a webkit web client written in python
• Scalable and Maintainable CSS Approaches Object Oriented CSS
• Why ‘Ok’ Buttons in Dialog Boxes Work Best on the Right

Tech

• Post-Mortem of AWS Outage some detail about the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service event last night when power was lost to some EC2 instances and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes in a single Availability Zone in the US East Region

Startup

• Set of Legal Documents for Startups
• Of course this company is for sale

Misc

• Flirt Guide from Social Issues Research Center
• South Korea bans virtual item trading, Diablo 3 auction house dead

News

• Microsoft to Buy Yammer

Dev

• Backbone.js Views Done the Right Way
• Git Best Practices: Workflow Guidelines good for beginners
• What the hell does ≡ do, anyway?
• sleekxmpp 1.1.5 Python library to wrk with XMPP
• Ho I use Django, Virtualenv and Buildout together good tutorial for beginners to make it right from start
• Understanding the insides of the POP3 mail protocol step by step explanation how it works

Tech

• Sick of Video Buffering Over Wi-Fi? This Router Can Do Something About It this router analyzes trafic and give priority to streaming, games and skype
• Lithium-air battery advance could be jaw-dropping improvement over li-ion

Startup

• 15 Worst Excuses Not to Be an Entrepreneur

Misc

• Hey Web Designers and Web Developers, Are You Blogging Yet?
• The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy) facing the problem of having too many cooks in the kitchen