mattberg

how do you plan on gaining traction in this market? i remember what seemed like 100s of these type of sites popping up all over the place when Siri was announced, and that was months ago.

giving the user that much control, using his example of a spreadsheet on his computer, makes me cringe thinking about how much the user could mess things up with the data.

a little off topic, but ... all that money on his website and you can't get a permalink to a news article? what the?

Plus .live() is now deprecated as of 1.7.

dang it actually let me buy it but just got a failed registration notice. shouldn't have used a coupon code :)

Unfortunately this seems to be a pretty common occurrence. I have seen it quite often in the Entertainment section with apps like X-Ray Scan or Phone Tracker. Not sure why nothing is ever done about it.

agreed, right there with you. my main apple id is gmail, but i do already have a me.com account also. would like to merge but it seems the only option on the iPhone is to create a new one, not sign-in with an existing one.

yeah didn't work for me either, but i agree, it did seem to look like it was going to work. i was excited for a second.

man i would love one, address in about.

Off topic: Anyone else read this title as "What I Learned From Fixing my Mom's Laptop"? I think I have been doing too much tech support for my mom and her friends lately.

i think technically it is $150 more, since the only way to get the antiglare is with the hi-res option. definitely annoying.

is it just me or does it remind you of the house from the Facebook movie?

agreed, almost seems as though the taliban would act out in order to prove they are still relevant without osama.

Since you are making outbound calls, I'm curious how you will handle verification of phone numbers? It looks like I can enter whatever phone number(s) I want, which seems like it could be abused by spammers.

I have had similar experiences with apps before where someone from the App Store review team actually called me about an app rejection. Very surprising, but that sort of feedback definitely helps a great deal.

Unforunately, I have also seen the opposite end of the spectrum where I have received extremely vague rejections, and upon talking with the App Store representative, received additional even more vague reasoning. I really just wish there was some sort of consistency.

Ever since using Drupal's Zen theme I have preferred their basic setup for grouping CSS files. Here is a rough example:

html-reset.css layout-fixed.css page-backgrounds.css messages.css pages.css blocks.css navigation.css comments.css forms.css fields.css print.css ie.css ie6.css

Drupal's CSS optimization, once turned on, will roll all of these up for you automatically, so if you aren't using Drupal you will need some sort of build system to combine and minimize everything. But I think this is a good start.

On a side note, I really like the method the Zen theme uses for CSS columns. Worth checking that out as well.

the part around the 41 second mark where he flips open the cover concerns me a little, notice him placing his left hand on the hinge area for support. i wonder if maybe it comes off too easily.

any early testers have any thoughts on how this compares to Fitbit? i am a big fan of Fitbit and their customer support is pretty amazing.

i assume the obvious issue with this is browser support? and what about mobile platforms? and then having everyone agree on a standard method for the salt/hash? sounds nice in theory though.

curious: why is the initial resource used to get the list of slots /doctors/mjones/slots?date=20100104&status=open and not /slots?doctor=mjones&date=20100104&status=open?

if i am setting up future communications at /slots/1234, to me /slots?doctor=mjones&date=20100104&status=open makes more sense. would you typically just have both resources available at those locations?

textfight.com cfbfantasy.com devhard.com htmldr.com

I was wondering about this too. I often get document conversion errors (using the JavaScript API), especially with UTF-8 documents. Think HTML5 will help?

No mention of YUI yet? I have been using it for years and can't imagine using any other framework.

YUI can be somewhat low level, but YUI 2 has grown to provide many impressive components like layout manager, menus, data tables, rich text editors, tree views, tab views, and more. Not to mention one of my favorite parts of YUI, the CSS font and reset files.

YUI 3 is much more reminiscent of jQuery, but doesn't quite have the component list of its predecessor (YUI 2). The YUI community is very active and the people behind the project are very communicative.

Anyways, just thought I would throw in my vote for YUI.

Thanks everyone, pretty much the response I was expecting. I think I will just try harder to find a .com.

so funny to see this site the week after my friends and i made the "bacon explosion" for the superbowl. definitely was good, but makes you feel kind of gross eating it.