The Luxury of Simple
I've been spending the past fews days helping my parents unpack after their first move in over a dozen years. On top of the weekend I spent over Thanksgiving moving out of my...
Thoughts
Mobile First
I was at the Event Apart conference today, sitting amongst design and front end web geeks trying to take in lessons from what passes as celebrity in our circles. A lot of it is highfalutin philosophies and principles (in contrast, engineering conferences are invariably about how many lines of code the presenter can fit on...
From the Armchair
I came across this article yesterday, provocatively titled "If Everyone Else is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich?". She makes a few good points: armchair generals point out the obvious, company leaders have to be somewhat intelligent to grow the business in the first place, and it's...
In Memory of Reasonably Priced Software
This post has been sitting in my Dropbox drafts folder for a few weeks now. I was thinking about how the current software boom is one of the few bright sectors in our current economy, with the web and software automation making jobs obsolete. Of course, Techcrunch beat me to the punch. Twice. Within the...
User-Centric Development
When Adobe announced this week that it is no longer trying to make Flash viable on mobile platforms, there was a good amount of developer talk on the ramifications. In particular, some on Hacker News lamented that they could no longer use Adobe's well developed Flash dev tools, and that currently both the...
The Early Life of Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs came out this week, and I along with most of the iBook + Kindle population started digesting the pages upon its digital release. There's something to be said about a man's work being so transcendent that a post-mortem book about his life can equal...