Sol Young

I was very pleased by a question in today’s press Q&A at Apple’s iPhone SDK release announcement. I posted the other day about the iPhone SDK being in development since before WWDC ‘07. The question pertained directly to my thoughts, “Why did you change your mind about the iPhone open SDK? How long will apps [...]

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We need a PHP programmer to join the dev team at iofy corporation. This is a full-time, based in Philadelphia, position.
The corporate version of the ad is on Craig’s List (also available after the jump).
If you’ve read this far you’ve probably laughed your ass off double-taked, “Philadelphia!?” … You’re right to do so. But seriously, [...]

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As promised (but late as a post), we released iofy’s RESTful documentation. This is extremely exciting for both our development and management teams. We now have an open account management API enabling others to offer iofy’s account management and access to a customer’s digital libraries of downloaded audiobooks.
I’m proud of this accomplishment.
The iofy RESTful API [...]

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iofy has a subscription to the O’Reilly Safari. It allows complete online access to O’Reilly’s entire line of books, as well as books they still have in the works. As a tech company, we thrive on this.
Lately I’ve hooked up bookmarks on my iPhone to titles I like. At any time, a single click lands [...]

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My dev team is prepping the release of our REST / RSS / JavaScript based account management this week. It marks the completion of building, then harnessing, a suite of RESTful RSS 2.0 feed based web services. The idea has been “avoid people wasting time, working on stuff they suck at focus developers on code [...]

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Kevin Schelkun finished the first in a series of how-to videos for iofy’s new hardware player. Check it out and see how easy it is… 30 seconds. The video makes me want to find one and listen to something.

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We’ve recently done work harnessing our iofy RESTful web services in JavaScript, especially the account management sections. Typically, in old-school fashion, an account management system is done server side with PHP, PERL, Ruby, etc, interacting with a database.
<sarcasm>That’s great when you want your heavy hitting developers to do design work or when you want your designers [...]

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