Reading time #2!

It's time for some more links to inspirational stuff...

This 2009 article at wired is one of my favorites. It talks about how 'good enough' easily beats 'great' in so many aspects. Whenever approaching a big design or architectural task, I tend to go back to this article a little bit. People tend to over design stuff, and try to come out with a Lamborghini (That costs like one to develop, sell and maintain), when all their customers want is a Mazda...

If you're always looking for 'the next thing' in dev technology and new stacks, you have to visit the changelog regularly. Lots of emerging technologies, useful libraries and code - All the goodies us geeks need.

For all you non-coders out there, here's a great article on starting a tech company without coding knowledge, and, this great article by @martingryner shows the other side of entrepreneurs recruiting a tech co-founder.

The new iPad paves the way for laptops, PCs and tablets with astronomical resolutions. As resolution gets higher, sites with dynamic adaptation to screen resolution need to scale differently. A simple reflow is not enough - Reflow your site, and your font size will be too small to read. Scale your site, and graphics quality degrades. This article gives some pointers about redesigning your website for retina displays.

And, finally, here's an article comparing between the two leading cross platform mobile development SDKs - Phonegap vs. Titanium. If you're considering cross platform app development, you should read this one.