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Jonathan Dodds

I’m a software engineer.

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My Greatest Weakness?

The question “What is your greatest weakness?” is a job interview trope. I don’t know my greatest weakness. I don’t know my greatest strength. I haven’t given thought to either superlative. Whatever is my greatest weakness today, probably won’t be... Continue reading

Posted Jul 14, 2013 at constructive nonconformist

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Party Like It's 1993

Revised editions of two significant programming books are due this May. The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition (updated for C++11) Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition Takes me back to 1993 — in a good way. Continue reading

Posted May 11, 2013 at constructive nonconformist

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Mac OS X Preview Hang on Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion Solved by Disabling AutoTermination

Mac OS X Lion introduced iOS style automatic termination for applications. If an application is running for a long period but is inactive, the operating system will automatically terminate, close and quit, the application. With auto resume it can be... Continue reading

Posted Sep 2, 2012 at constructive nonconformist

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Daring Fireball Linked List: The Android Surge

From Daring Fireball Linked List: The Android Surge: My sense is that over the next 12 to 18 months, Android will surge past Apple the way Microsoft Windows surged past Apple in the 1990s. — Dan Lyons Android cannot “surge... Continue reading

Posted Jan 3, 2012 at constructive nonconformist

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links for 2011-08-15

Your customer won’t take a bullet for you | gapingvoid guest post from Kathy Sierra (tags: business technology) Design design design. by David Cole - Quora Applies to programmers, programming, programs as well. (tags: programming development softwaredevelopment) Continue reading

Posted Aug 15, 2011 at constructive nonconformist

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FaceTime Over 3G via WiFi HotSpot

Back on March 2nd I wrote the following on Twitter: If no available wifi but #VZW #iPhone4 with personal hotspot and #iPad2 connected to hotspot, will #FaceTime work on the iPad? In longer words than 140 characters allow, if you... Continue reading

Posted Mar 17, 2011 at constructive nonconformist

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I was not aware of Apple's implementation being non-standard. Can you provide some detail or a link to a description of the issues with Apple's implementation? Thanks.

Commented Mar 7, 2011 on Update on the BlackBerry and CalDav MobileMe calendars issues at constructive nonconformist

Review: "HTML 4 & 5: The Complete Reference" By O'Reilly Media for iOS

This is not a book stuffed into an app. It is an application. The second thing to know is that the content is very good. The content is a refresh of the O’Reilly HTML & XHTML Pocket Reference, Fourth Edition... Continue reading

Posted Mar 6, 2011 at constructive nonconformist

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Update on the BlackBerry and CalDav MobileMe calendars issues

Solved this problem for my wife: BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac OS X does not support CalDav MobileMe calendars. She no longer uses a BlackBerry. Me? I’m planning on resolving this issue for myself by dumping my BlackBerry in the... Continue reading

Posted Mar 6, 2011 at constructive nonconformist

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links for 2011-01-24

Android source code, Java, and copyright infringement: what's going on? -- Engadget (tags: java android) Manton Reece: App Store 30% cut (tags: apple business development softwaredevelopment) Continue reading

Posted Jan 24, 2011 at constructive nonconformist

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BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac OS X does not support CalDav MobileMe calendars

Apple had CalDav based calendars for MobileMe and iCal in public beta in July and out of beta in October. The CalDav calendars are wonderful because my wife and I can have a shared calendar. As of December: Known synchronization... Continue reading

Posted Jan 9, 2011 at constructive nonconformist

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Sounds like an unpleasant situation for both sides.

Commented Nov 9, 2010 on Software Design Instincts at constructive nonconformist

Software Design Instincts

When I'm working out a software design I depend a great deal on my instincts, my unconscious competence. My instincts are in part an internalization of my experience. I don't wait for experience to happen; I proactively build my experience... Continue reading

Posted Nov 7, 2010 at constructive nonconformist

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links for 2010-11-01

Marco.org - The Mac App Store isn't for today's Mac developers (tags: apple business development) Continue reading

Posted Nov 1, 2010 at constructive nonconformist

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Don't Build to a Plugin

It’s over. — John Gruber Daring Fireball Linked List: Microsoft Changes Strategy With Silverlight If you’re targeting the web as a platform, if you’re looking to maximize the browsers that can be supported, if you’re looking to maximize the lifetime... Continue reading

Posted Oct 30, 2010 at constructive nonconformist

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links for 2010-10-30

Under The Microscope » Blog Archive » Quick Thoughts on the Mac App Store (tags: apple business development) The App Store Effect - Inside iPhone Blog (tags: apple business development) Continue reading

Posted Oct 30, 2010 at constructive nonconformist

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links for 2010-10-27

Red Sweater Blog – Blog The First Draft (tags: blogging) Continue reading

Posted Oct 27, 2010 at constructive nonconformist

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Jeff Atwood and Touch Computing and the Hunt-and-peck Pianist

In The Keyboard Cult on his Coding Horror blog, Jeff Atwood surveys mechanical keyboards. But he introduces his survey thusly: As a guy who spends most of his day typing words on a screen, it’s hard for me to take... Continue reading

Posted Oct 24, 2010 at constructive nonconformist

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links for 2010-09-19

Important: ASP.NET Security Vulnerability - ScottGu's Blog (tags: .net asp.net microsoft web) Continue reading

Posted Sep 19, 2010 at constructive nonconformist

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links for 2010-09-10

Daring Fireball: A Taste of What's New in the Updated App Store License Agreement and New Review Guidelines (tags: apple ipad iphone development) Continue reading

Posted Sep 10, 2010 at constructive nonconformist

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links for 2010-09-07

Bug found with Automator and iTunes 10 | iPod & Entertainment | Playlist | Macworld Bitten by this bug. Replaced the affected Automator action with an AppleScript. (tags: apple applescript macosx itunes) Continue reading

Posted Sep 7, 2010 at constructive nonconformist

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links for 2010-08-27

How *Not* to Eat An Elephant - andyhunt's posterous (tags: agile softwaredevelopment) Continue reading

Posted Aug 27, 2010 at constructive nonconformist

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links for 2010-08-23

Daring Fireball Linked List: 'Then This Happened' (tags: ipad) Twitter - Meme is emerging ... (tags: ipad) Continue reading

Posted Aug 23, 2010 at constructive nonconformist

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Defensive Threading

Designing and writing multi-threaded code is hard. Threading adds a debilitating amount of complexity to the Von Neumann architecture and, despite 50+ years of theory and implementation, the threading support in most programming languages is low level, the equivalent of... Continue reading

Posted Aug 22, 2010 at constructive nonconformist

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links for 2010-06-29

So you want to be an epublisher – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report (tags: ebooks epub) Continue reading

Posted Jun 29, 2010 at constructive nonconformist

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