i dont have an iphone, but have an andriod one. i generally turn off internet. so, i can't browse, and i can't install new apps. i mostly use it for attending calls.
glad that you liked the blog post. talking about price, india no more falls in 'cheap outsourcing' destinations. what we have learnt from our clients is: if they need quality work, they have to pay decent rates inevitably.
whats wrong with horizontal scroll? If a site has both horizontal and vertical scroll, the site looks messy! Horizontal scroll is also good to scroll pictures.
You should know how to draw things first before dwelling into maths. For eg, look at this one: https://github.com/MathiasPaumgarten/hair/blob/master/source...
and check out drawFinger, its all about drawing an arc. Once you know basics, i think its matter of time that you can produce jaw dropping things like this. coming to maths that you need to learn: learn co-ordinate geometry for all 2d related stuff.
There is DTrace software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace) whose documentation also disappeared. My friend pointed out while exploring DTrace to profile ruby apps.
so true. i respect people who put an effort to compose an email to share something, rather than hitting share button. most of the time they dont even remember what they have shared over fb!
Talking about 'libraries vs frameworks', tenderlove spoke about frameworks providing bare-metal interfaces for libraries and let libraries implement those interfaces in whichever way they want. but its still not sure to what extent that would solve the problem.
Recently, bare-metal queue implementation in Rails https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/adff4a706a5d7ad18ef053... has been discussed 'for and against' extensively.