Blog au Roux

Great Creole cuisine comes from the blending of cultural influences — French, Spanish, Caribbean and African — to create a truly distinctive and memorable taste. Our varied backgrounds allow us to share our collective expertise. As for Creole cooking, we start with one core piece of advice, “First you make a roux…”


Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’

Mudbug Media
by Mudbug Media

Search News

Sexy searches, Facebook changes and an indelible ink road trip – this Link Roundup has it all.  Take a look at what we’ve been looking at this week.

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Gabe Martin-Dempesy
by Gabe Martin-Dempesy

Links: Ruby on Rails Edition

One of our favorite frameworks here at Mudbug Media has to be Ruby on Rails.  Ruby is an open-source language that is very developer friendly, aided by the huge library of elegant and feature rich third party libraries available.

Ruby as a language has always been useful, but the love affair didn’t really begin until Rails came along to provide direction.  Now there are countless online ecosystems devoted to all things Ruby.

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Vasu Tummala
by Vasu Tummala

Developing for the iPad

The iPad has taken the world by storm, selling 300,000 copies its first day and as many as 750,000 in its first half week on the market.  Thousands of early adopters waited for hours outside Best Buys and Apple Stores across the country just to get their hands on an iPad as soon as possible.

While the new device’s launch has been peppered with connectivity problems, it’s definitely a game changer in the technology world.  Aside from making a nice salsa, the iPad represents the latest and greatest user-friendly tablet technology, making media more accessible than ever before.
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Vasu Tummala
by Vasu Tummala

Flashdance

With the launch of the iPad, Steve Jobs fired a shot at Adobe’s widely used Flash platform, calling the company “lazy” for not committing to stronger Flash updates as the 14 year old system ages.

Over the weekend, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch finally responded, committing to improve performance, while Flash engineer Tinic Uro blogged about the improved performance of an upcoming version of Flash that addresses some of the myriad problems and drawbacks that inspired the “lazy” comment.

I think Jobs’s persistent trashing of Flash and refusal to allow it anywhere near Apple mobile products has finally hit home, but I don’t think there’s much Adobe can do about it.

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