(This is in response to the rash of iphone thefts)
People like to steal iphones. Its a fact of life. For the most part they just want to sell the phone without your sim card or your data. However, if you are like me you keep a lot of stuff on your phone…a contact list of course, but more importantly you keep your email on it. Also of course a thief could use it to call their best friend far away for free. To prevent this phones have always had the feature of a passcode, which you should be using already on your iphone. At some point in the recent past apple added an even more useful feature: you can set it so that the phone erases itself after 10 incorrect passcode entries.
To enable this setting follow these steps:
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I’m taking the time to pick up python right now. So far I like it, very straightforward, has everything I want in a language. One of the things I do when I pick a new language is re-implement the very first program I wrote when learning how to program my calculator in High School. Its a very advanced piece of technology that “tosses coins”. Anyway, usually figuring out how to do it in a new language is a quick way to get the hang of the syntax and basics. Anyway, I did it today in php, python, c and JavaScript. Then for the heck of it I tested all three to see which was faster at flipping a coin a million times.
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I had a busy week last week with YUIConf, the launch of the YUI Gallery and a trip back to Denver to see my parents.
Timepicker available on YUI Gallery
First things first, my YUI Timepicker widget is now part of the gallery. That means you can use it straight of the Yahoo CDN with a Y.use() statement. Please check it out and file bugs, feature requests, or go ahead and fork on github and add the features yourself!
YUI Doc Talk on Slideshare
My talk on YUI Doc from YUI Conf is now on slideshare. Please check it out, I have a video of the talk, but I am going to wait until its uploaded to the YUI Gallery before I post it.
Still looking for a few good Javascripters
We haven’t filled all our openings yet, but we have been getting great responses from the YUI Blog post. If you want to work at yahoo, please, send us those resumes!
UPDATE
Video is available here.
I am presenting on YUI Doc tomorrow at YUIConf. This is an excellent language neutral tool for generating documentation from comments, I highly recommend you check it out.
I cover the tool, some pest practices, etc. I’ll post the video as soon as its available, but in the meantime I have create a project on github that shows you a simple example of using YUI Doc as part of your build.
Get it here.
Yahoo! is looking for a few good frontend engineers…and I’m looking for one of them.
Check it out, send a resume, come work for us!