New blog on web development
I'm creating a number of subject-area blogs, the first one is on web development.
I just released a new blog called What, Where, Why?, focused specifically on web development, the Internets, and other related geekery.
I'm teaching my highly-acclaimed Native iOS development workshop in Brighton (UK) next month, from the 22nd-24th of February.
The course will give you strong foundations in Objective-C and Cocoa Touch to give you a solid start to building your own iOS apps in just three days.
New: Native iOS development workshop in Brighton, Feb 22-24th
Learn Objective-C and Cocoa Touch to make iOS (iPhone and iPad) apps in three days in February in sunny Brighton.
You may have heard of two bills that are floating around the US Congress and Senate that go by the common monikers SOPA and PIPA. They're both very bad news and they will affect us all–Americans and otherwise–if they pass.
That is why this blog is blacked out in protest today.
SOPA is bad news, and concerns us all
SOPA and PIPA affect you and could destroy the Internet as we know it. That's why this blog is blacked out today.
As I mentioned earlier, I'm shutting down my Yahoo! account following Yahoo!'s hiring of the president of PayPal as its CEO. So I used the Flickr to WP plugin to migrate my photos here. They're presented here using the Lightbox Gallery plugin and the gallery short-code.
Flickr Photos
These are backups of the photos I used to have on Flickr before I shut down my Yahoo! account.
Gone is the initial love affair I had with the web. Those early days when I believed that Google actually could do no evil and when the web was an open frontier of boundless potential built by those who naively and bravely toiled to further the plight of humanity are in the past.
Replaced, are they, by the grey (OK, pastel) reality of commercial silos that grant users varying degrees of access to their own data while trying to gleam as much information about them as they can to sell to their advertisers and other interested third parties. And what freedoms remain are under grave threat from legislation like SOPA and PROTECT IP.
It’s your data, but what about the URLs? #myData #myURLs
Owning your own data is great, owning your own URLs also is even better. Let's start asking web app developers for this feature.