Adding Google API support to your iPhone App could not be any easier. Google provides Objective-C APIs for:
Google just released Page Speed, their competitor to Yahoo! YSlow. Both plug-ins for Firebug. Obvious requirements include Mozilla Firefox and Firebug plug-in.
So far it’s been pretty to look at. There’s 2 tabs instead of YSlow’s 1 tab. You can also Record Activity and measure page loading speed as well.
The one thing I do not like right now is that Page Speed creates 2 folders in my home directory on the Mac OSX. I’m not sure where the folders go in Windows systems yet. These folders just hold some cached items when you run the Page Speed to analyze performance.
Google’s Page Speed results are a bit different than Yahoo! YSlow. YSlow gives you “grades” and Page Speed just gives you green, red, or yellow signs. It also gives you an explanation of what you can do to make your pages load faster. Page Speed also does not give you the little icon next to Firebug that tells you how long it took to load the initial page. Something I actually like to know even if I’m not performance tuning my own website.
So far, Page Speed is a welcomed addition to the Firebug arsenal. Also check out SitePoint’s CodeBurner Firebug plug-in. It’s a great little reference for HTML and CSS. And Robert Nyman’s FireFinder for Firebug is handy search for Firebug.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, law student or anything remotely close and/or in any way related to the law field.
That said, I do still have my own legal issues to be aware of. Recently, I have started up my own company, which brings even more legal nightmares. As for my design and development work, there are quite a bit of legal things that I needed to be aware of.
These are pretty easy to register. At least in the U.S. it is. I’m not so sure about how other countries work. For the U.S. head on over to the U.S. Copyright Office’s website and do the online registration. It costs about $35 per copyright. This is good for just about all design work and also includes the programming code.
These are the ones that have most recently driven me crazy. You can license your code, design work, photos, etc with various different licenses such as Creative Commons, MIT, GNU and many more. There are a lot of resources available online for these and Creative Commons helps you pick the license you want to use. My confusion comes from having both a Copyright and License on the same material. As a general understanding, everything I write and put on my website is Copyrighted. But at the same time, I have some code that is freely available for downloading and modification under MIT license both on my website and also on GitHub.
Another issue I am working on figuring out all the legalities of, is how to properly license out work to a client. I have seen quite a few articles online and even some books stating that it’s best to retain the Copyright for the websites I design and build, while licensing out the design to the client. That’s a great idea, but there’s no legal paperwork or explanation on how this whole process works. AIGA has a pretty good write-up for designers.
I’m still trying to figure this all out, but I have run into some good resources.
Disney has gone green and launched Disney Nature (on April 21, 2008). Today is the release of the much anticipated movie Earth. The movie is narrated by James Earl Jones and Produced by Alastair Fothergill of Planet Earth and Blue Planet fame.
Disney Nature has 6 more projects lined up for release through 2012.
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