Everyone is entitled to my opinion
Posted in development, technology on Dec 31st, 2012
Who among us hasn’t sighed and rolled their eyes as the octogenarian in front of us in the express line painstakingly scrawls out a check to pay for their quart of milk and loaf of bread? Or wanted to strangle the obstinate Coupon Lawyer who’s willing to wait all day to get 50 cents off [...]
Posted in development, technology on Apr 5th, 2012
If you use an Android device, you’re familiar with installing apps. Each app has a set of permissions that it requests. For instance, the screen capture at left shows the permissions required by the Google Maps app. As you can see the list is extensive and some of them might give you pause, like “Services [...]
Posted in development, social media, technology, Uncategorized on Dec 21st, 2011
Last evening, I exchanged a few tweets with the folks at Janetter (@Janetter_jp), the Twitter client I just installed on my MacBook. Overall, I really like Janetter. It is a big improvement over Tweetdeck, which got bought a few months ago by Twitter, and now appears to have been put in stasis. The folks at Jane, [...]
Posted in development, social media, technology, Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2011
I’ve been working on a little SaaS project I call AdTraqr that helps advertisers determine which ad placements are most effective. It employs those darlings of Japan, QR codes, which were invented by a Toyota subsidiary to track parts inventory. Here’s one that points to my About.me profile page: The way AdTraqr works is that [...]
Posted in development on May 18th, 2009
SLAP – Simple Lightweight Announcement Protocol Today, to only two close developer friends, I’m releasing a first prototype of a new project called SLAP (for Simple Lightweight Announcement Protocol). We’re going to begin multi-server testing of it as soon as possible. If you’re not a developer, you may not immediately grasp exactly what SLAP is [...]
Posted in development, Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2008
After spending quite a few hours on yesterdays post, OAuth and OMB post-sharing, it occurred to me with the first cup of coffee this morning that I had missed one important user interface twist in the use of OAuth that actually makes it quite necessary. It depends on how the UI for subscribing works. If, [...]
Posted in development on Oct 17th, 2008
I just got through watching this video of Jason Fried that was recorded earlier this week in Boston. It’s the long-form, illustrated-with-slides version of the extemporaneous talk he did for RI Nexus this past Wednesday in Providence. I highly recommend this to anyone involved in software development. Listening to his list of specific dos and [...]
Posted in development on Oct 16th, 2008
Many thanks go out to Jack Templin and RINexus for bringing Jason Fried, founder of 37Signals to Providence last night. Jason spoke on many aspects of his success and what got him there, and answered a lot of questions, even mine! What really impressed me about Jason’s story was that he became a success doing [...]
Posted in development on Jun 27th, 2008
This Sunday, June 29, 2008, I will be attending DevHouseBoston. I’ve proposed a project called Distributed Microblogging. My primary goal for the day is to get a UI defined. If we can prototype something, so much the better, but I think the discussions going on in the online community really need to have some attention [...]
Posted in development, Uncategorized on May 6th, 2008
If you don’t read all of this admittedly long post, please do skip to the end and check out the BarCampBoston info. I’ll be holding a session there on the topic of Distributed Microblogging. Ok, so let’s talk about the hard bits of doing Distributed Microblogging. It’s easy to envision a multitude of servers exchanging [...]
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