March, 2010

This isn’t a rant about the proliferation of mobile devices and how they are going to do everything except change your cat’s litter box in the future. It’s simply about improving your design chops. I’ve decided that new feature work should start with...

But alas, there will always be a group of people who think PayPal and Bump Payments are a HORRIBLE idea. And there is a very specific name for that group� MOOCHERS! via phandroid.com Like the author I wonder if you'll be able to bump...

Over the weekend I finished Rework and figured I’d share some quotes from it as well. This book was excellent and the perfect complimentary read to Linchpin .  There was a lot of overlap and similar concepts.  While Linchpin was more psychology...

Thanks to the birth of our first son I’ve been granted a lot of reading/feeding time.  You could say that this was baby Gabe’s first book.  I can’t say what he thought about the book, but I can say that I really enjoyed it.  It was the...

[UPDATE: You do NOT need a Paid Yahoo Plus account for this to work... the example below is done with a FREE Yahoo Mail account:] To set up Yahoo E-Mail on the Motorola Droid: Make sure Wi-Fi is turned off Press the E-Mail icon (the default...

Sometimes the web service you want to consume is locked behind Windows (NTLM) authentication. I struggled for a bit trying to figure out how to use NTLM authentication with an HttpClient request in a sample Android application. It looked like I had everything...

A couple of weeks ago I switched from a Blackberry to an Android phone. I was a little anxious about venturing into the unknown of Android development, but I couldn’t fight the temptation of downloading the Android SDK and hacking more than a few...

I posted previously about undergoing a review of your true product strengths . But what if you realize there isn’t as much overlap between customer usage/demand and your product? You have to start over and try to redefine what your product strengths...

When configuring our Selenium tests to run out build server, one issue I ran into is that there wasn’t a lot out there in terms of how to get this set up. A few people had posted about having done it, but not how they did it. Overall, it isn’t...

Recently, I’ve been working on migrating our build process at Telligent from using Cruise Control .NET to use JetBrain’s Team City. Cruise Control has served us well, but after looking at the feature set of Team City, it had a number of things...

Social web applications are not made famous by spending millions of bucks on advertisement and other media. What makes an application famous is the viral strategies behind them. Check out these developers for wonderful social strategies implemented into...

I have been spending a lot more time in terminal recently. I routinely find myself having more tabs open than I can keep track of. I then end up forgetting what's open and end up opening even more tabs which just make the problem worse. I finally...

Be Here to Love Me - the Townes Van Zandt Bio via snagfilms.com This is a great documentary about the troubled life of Townes Van Zandt, one of the best American singer/songwriters that you've probably never heard of. Permalink ...