Links for Saturday May 18th 2013

RestKit
REST tools for iPhone apps. Yes, it's time for another crack at iOS development. Because I'm mad, obviously. Mind you, I've still got to finish writing the APIs first, so let's not get ahead of ourselves, eh?

Links for Friday May 17th 2013

The new GeoData tool set: CouchDB and NodeJS
I want to give this a thorough prodding. I think it might be very useful for a thing.

This Is What Happens When Publishers Invest In Long Stories ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community
The next time someone tells you the internet is killing our attention span, send them here. This is utterly fascinating stats-based analysis of new ways of publishing long form news and analysis on the web.
On the Constant Moment – clayton cubitt
A superb essay on photography's place in our culture. I've seen a few people linking to this already, and they've all picked the same stand-out sentence because, fuck me, it's a doozy. "It is the creation of art through the curation of time." What a beautiful and clearly expressed idea. I'm going to be picking that one apart for a while to come.

Connect your cash drawer and receipt printer — Square Register
The Retail POS market in the US is getting seriously interesting. I await the day they're available in the UK with some interest. (I've spent some time dealing with retail POS solutions at work.) Mind you, it'll only get really interesting when there's an API behind their tools.

LOAM (Locative Oral/Audio Media) | Larkfall
Under-development (Android, but here's hoping for an IOS version) platform for embedding sound data in locations, to be played back based on user's physical location, orientation and so on. Utter fascinating idea that opens up all manner hauntological/psychogeographic fun.
Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence
This is a superb breakdown of why estimating software projects is a nightmare. It's even worse at agencies, where no client likes the prospect of "Agile". Which is a pain…

Kill it With Fire: why Gamification sucks and Game Dynamics rule | Philip Trippenbach
An excellent short essay on the difference between "Gamification" and actual, y'know, *fun*.

Emscripten
Convert code written in other languages into Javascript
John Resig – Asm.js: The JavaScript Compile Target
Couple of work links here, of no interest to non-web nerds. Back to sleep, the lot of you.

Government Service Design Manual
This looks like a really good resource for people involved in web projects. It's not so much that it'll teach anyone who has been in the the business for a while anything wildly new, but it'll definitely focus some thinking.

Feature: Find duplicate passwords / 1Password 3.8 for Mac (from AgileBits website) / Discussion Area – AgileBits Support
I still have a few places where I use a password I *know* to be bad. (It's only 8 characters long, for one thing, and for another, just using the same password in more than one place is stupid.) It's not in use anywhere I'm particularly bothered about – mostly throwaway logins, or for social networks I don't give a monkeys about, but still – I should clear it out of my life. This will help.

Scarfolk Council
This is just an unbelievably brilliant bit of, funny, creepy, beautifully realised work, that's drawing on a lot of big influences for me.