I love the physical home button on my iPhone, it comes in handy during those times on the go when I can’t be fiddling around, it just has to work.
But the rest of the time I am using my phone, I want to save the wear and tear on the phone by avoiding use of the physical home button. I discovered that iOS has an Accessibility feature that lets me do just that.
To enable it, turn on AssistiveTouch from the Accessibility menu in Settings –> General –> Accessibility. Scroll down to Physical & Motor section and enable the AssistiveTouch feature.
After you have it enabled it, you will have a transparent “dot” on the screen that you can move around. You can see the “dot” in the screen shot below located in the top right hand corner.
The dot can be moved around and it will automatically snap to 8 different locations on the screen shown by the red arrows. (You would want to move it if it was in the way of something you want to press)
Touching the “Dot” will bring up 3 new buttons. Gestures, Device, Favorites and Home. Touching Home will do the exact same thing as your hardware Home button.
There are some other interesting features you can play with from here but I mainly use the Home button and don’t have any need for anything else.
If you want to explore around, there are a few more useful actions under the Device menu:
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Every time I want to print something I always have some problem.
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I find this Mercurial workflow made by SecretGeek very convenient.
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I’ve got a tonne of apps that are installed in my iPhone. But there are a few that I use regularly, and deserve special attention. I have downloaded all of these apps from the un-official Cydia store, where you can find a lot of free, and payed apps that will only work on JailBroken iPhones. For those who don’t know, out of the box, your iPhone is restricted by Apple so that your apps cannot do things like run in the back ground.
On with the list.
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I found this article written by Donnie Garvich at http://www.finalint.com/2010/05/04/10-ways-to-suck-at-programming. But his server seems to be over loaded as it is throwing 505 Service Temporarily Unavailable message from time to time. So I have re-posted a copy of that article below:
I recently inherited a web app from a dirty, nasty, stinking contractor that claimed to be a competent enough programmer to be left alone to get things done. Unfortunately, we took him at his word. Functionally, most of the web app seemed to work at first glance. However, once the client took over the reigns and actually started using it things went downhill
fast. The contractor disappeared after payment (die reputation DIE!) and I was left to try and get things working properly and performing up to snuff while the client limped along with what they had been given.
I decided to document a few of the things that I found wrong along the way. These are really just things that every good programmer should already know to avoid… but obviously some people need to be reminded (or taught).
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"You know, when you have a program that does something really cool, and you wrote it from scratch, and it took a significant part of your life, you grow fond of it. When it’s finished, it feels like some kind of amorphous sculpture that you’ve created. It has an abstract shape in your head that’s completely independent of its actual purpose. Elegant, simple, beautiful. Then, only a year later, after making dozens of pragmatic alterations to suit the people who use it, not only has your Venus- de-Milo lost both arms, she also has a giraffe’s head sticking out of her chest and a cherubic penis that squirts colored water into a plastic bucket. The romance has become so painful that each day you struggle with an overwhelming urge to smash the fucking thing to pieces with a hammer." – Nick Foster ("Life as a programmer")
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Hi everyone,
A friend of I sent this picture to me today morning, and I didn’t resist to publish it.
It’s awesome!!!!!
Enjoy the view 
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The following was taken from Tech Radar. Since I found this useful I am mirroring the post here for my own reference (and others).
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