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I’m wondering why people develop for Windows phone 7. Is it because the browser is so bad that it wont run HTML5 apps?

Please please do not do this. This is why people hate their software. It fixes a problem in the developer’s mind not in the user’s mind.

Here is the issue at hand.  Say, user pulled up an entry form and made some changes.  Then the above mentioned user clicked browser back button, navigating away from the current page, and thus loosing all the pending changes.  A friendly software application should warn the user, shouldn’t it?

No no no no. The user took an action, respond and obey, especially with the sacrosanct back button of all things. Nagging them is never good. What if they want both; to go back and not lose there changes.

Let’s start with a better definition of the problem: The user clicks the back button while editing and could loose changes. How should the application respond. Let’s eliminate “Pop up a dialog box”: as that is never the right answer. How about saving the state so if the user clicks the forward button to return to the page their data has not been lost. Most browsers will do this automatically and the users understand the flow.

Wow, Talk about shooting the tool.

I do not want my children learning math proofs on iPads.

TechCrunch insists they are not going on a luddite rant while going on a luddite rant. Yes iPads are not ready to take over the classroom, that is true, it is also teachers are not ready for the tool. An iPad can assist in learning and should be used when appropriate.

I wanted a new clipping application keep notes and ideas. It came down to OneNote vs. Evernote but it quickly became one sided. Evernote just works in more places. Chrome and on my WebOS phone put it over the top. It is nice Microsoft is releasing apps for iPad but they need to follow up with iPhone and Android.

Hey this actually looks nice. ASP.NET will do minification and developers do not have to do anything. I’d like to see it in action but the description seems like it is easy to use, test and customise.

The web is not short on guides and how-to pages for creating a new form and Smashing Magazine seems to be a company that throws out a lot of content, usually, but not always of a high standard. This time I think that did a pretty good job of nailing How to make useable forms 101.

We noticed typing lots of play by plays on scrbrd.com can result in typing player names a lot. Well, no more. We added autocorrect so now you can create shortcuts for player name and terms. No need to remember who number 21 is any more, just create an autocorrect.

To create an autocorrect type @to=turnover in the comment box. Now each time you type @to it turns into turnovers.

Even better, this is remembered from game to game and you still do not need to log in or create an account.

Online scoreboard, Keep track using your phone and everyone else who is not at them game can follow. He is a game of Basketball I scored using an iPod touch.

iOS5 has fixed the offline bugs so if you load Playcounter once while online you will be able to load it from favorites even with no connection.

Playcounter has been updated. It is tested with iOS 5, There is a bug fix that stopped the teams from changing when there was an injured player n the team.