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Some are arguing that the death of the iPad means that Apple is now basically a one-product company which could be an achilles heel no matter how many phones are sold.

Good project managers are rare but such regimentation can stifle the free flow of ideas if the PM is not careful. The good ideas come from nature and leisure, not from where the Deadline looms.

Expresso is a nice idea. Somebody should fill this vacuum, definitely.

I think you nailed it with 3. A constantly changing UI makes people hesitant to submit their credit cards. Whereas Amazon has looked pretty much the same for twenty years.

Rewrite one of your existing javascript-heavy apps in backbone. Having a clear goal will help.

Thanks. I should change it so that it automatically resets when a user submits a wrong answer.

Nicely put.

not quite working but it does seem like a fun sunday morning project.

LOL

My favorite is still Cows and Closures. http://nathansjslessons.appspot.com/lesson?id=1000

I'm with you. I lie about what I do to half my friends to avoid their hurt expressions when they find out that I'm not going to bunker down for the next 2 weeks writing their app for free.

>Also, when I run into a hitch during development, Google takes my operating system into account. Googling answers to development questions provides me much more relevant results on Ubuntu than it ever did on the Mac.

This isn't said enough. Type a coding question into google and 9 out of 10 hits seem to be good tutorials involving the linux terminal.

Facebook too. Can't think of many recent instances where the winner of the early adopters won the space. Netflix?

The SF2 docs have really come along since the early beta. As a beginner looking at both for the first time SF2 seems more clear.

Agreed. Once I converted all the exercises to coffeescript (syntactically similar to python) they made more sense.

"twelve handwritten steps on Post-its for how to open their timesheet on the intraweb" It's funny to watch this in action.