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Trust in business
This week I've seen a number of "leaks" showing Lion and iOS 5 as well as people Tweeting about some of the information contained in WWDC sessions. Everyone that attends WWDC has to agree to an NDA (non-disclosure agreement for those not in the loop) and Apple stated everywhere that with the exception of the keynote, the content of the sessions was confidential and subject to the NDA. So, all these leaks are violations of the NDA. Besides what I've read on the web, the most flagrant violation I saw was someone taking a picture of the slide that said something on the bottom to the effect that photography was not permitted!
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More pitfalls to synchronous networking
Anyone that reads my blog or talks to me professionally knows how much I hate dislike asynchronous network programming. While working on rewriting some networking code, I came across a few more reasons why synchronous networking is a poor decision.
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Authentication security in iOS apps
When I read a post that John Gruber wrote today about OAuth in native Twitter apps and how much of a poor user experience it is/will be, I had to dig deeper into the article. On first read of the article, I disagreed with him as I thought he missed a very important point about security, but upon re-reading it, he did identify one of the major issues with how OAuth (and other types of service authentication) is done on iOS, in particular.
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Surviving the spring storm
Yesterday, I was interviewed about the spring storm that was going to happen today. I found it pretty humorous that any storm in San Diego especially a spring "storm", makes the news. Today the "storm" hit and it dumped so much rain that by 4 pm, the ground was just about dry and it was sunny! I went for a run and mistakenly wore a long sleeved shirt; it was far too warm for it even though the spring storm was supposed to bring cold air.