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Mobile Phone GPS - Where are we going?

June 22nd, 2008 · Comments

Most smartphones slated for release over the next 12-months include a GPS receiver, built in. After that, it will be a marked failure to not include a GPS in a phone. The functionality that comes with GPS is outstanding - mapping, directions, location based experiences, etc. We’re about to enter an age of advancement in [...]

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Tags: BlackBerry · Bold · Etiquette · Facebook · Geolocation · Jaiku · Life Streaming · Micro-blogging · Microblogging · Nokia · Pownce · Prediction · Social Networking · Software Development · Twitter · Wearing · Web Services · iPhone · iPhone 3G

iofy digital audiobook platform acquired by Ingram Digital

May 29th, 2008 · Comments

“Ingram Digital, an Ingram Content company focused on solutions for digital content management, hosting, distribution and promotion, today announced it has acquired the iofy digital audiobook platform from Audiofy Corporation.”

It’s official. As described in the press release, the iofy digital audiobook platform is now part of Ingram Digital. I’m happy about this move. This is [...]

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Tags: Audiobooks · Ingram Digital · Managing · Software Development · Web Services · iofy

How to virtualize Windows on an Ubuntu host for an optimized dev / qa environment

May 11th, 2008 · Comments

 
After converting my MacBook Pro in to a Windows developer dream, I wanted to have the same experience on a more portable, commodity hardware unit. Virtualizing Windows within Windows with VMware Server is something I’m familiar with. It’s something many Windows developers may prefer (and I recommend if you’re not comfy with linux as your [...]

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Tags: Education · Microsoft · OS X · QA · Software Development · Ubuntu · VMware · Windows · Xubuntu

Teaching class classes for PHP development - Rock Band Example

April 9th, 2008 · Comments

Object-Oriented Programming (OO or OOP) is the best way to have re-usable, sharable, less-bug-ridden, easily readable, easier to debug, and easier-to-pick-up-later professionally written software.
“Learning classes” is the functional way to describe learning object-oriented programming. One skill begets the other. When in college my professor played a video of a band playing music. The band represented [...]

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Tags: Education · PHP · Software Development · Teaching · Web Services

Flow - Day 9 - I switched to iChat for Twitter XMPP

April 1st, 2008 · Comments

386 - 7 minutes
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When following a lot of friends in a flow environment and using XMPP, one sees the above numbers in less than ten minutes. I’d been using Adium, but Adium doesn’t smooth scroll between each received tweet. It constantly jerks messages upwards and has made it virtually impossible to have a meaningful [...]

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Tags: Education · Flow · OS X · Prediction · Reviews · Social Networking · Software Development · Twitter · XMPP · iChat

‘Flow’ - day 7 - My Twitter thousands

March 30th, 2008 · Comments

Day 7 - The flow rises, but as it gets faster I just want more… I wonder what Scoble’s flow is like…
Here are my previous flow entries so you’re up to speed:

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6 (no post)

I’m visiting my in-laws this weekend so haven’t been spending much time in the flow this [...]

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Tags: Education · Flow · Prediction · Social Networking · Software Development · Twitter · Web Services · XMPP · iofy

Installing tile - real developers do it themselves

March 23rd, 2008 · Comments

This weekend my wife and I got an early start Friday to finish off our bathroom’s tile. I’ve been photo-blogging it to Flickr and periodically putting up notes on Twitter. The last couple weekends have been similar, doing plumbing, floor tile, prep work, etc.
Though there is so much [...]

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