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Episode #1 of the OnPC (On-Person-Computer) Developer's Podcast is now live at http://onpcdev.com If you develop for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, Android, Windows Phone 7, Blackberry, webOS and more, it's what's hot, what's new and what's Read More...
As readers of this blog probably already know, I was one of the very, very early podcasters back in 2006. I've been itching to get going on a new podcast and just found my inspiration! I recently read an interesting article on CNNMoney.com entitled Read More...
If you are a startup I think you'd find www.onstartups.com very worth your time. They have a post relating most startup plans to those of the South Park "Underpants Gnomes" who's business plan is: Steal Underpants ? Make Profit Always Read More...
Just ran into BrowserMob a cloud-based load testing tool based on Firefox and Amazon EC2 . It allows you to throw hundreds or thousands of "virtual users" at your web site simultaneously. Unlike most load testing tools however, it uses actual Read More...
Joe Wilcox over at Microsoft Watch today wrote a piece entitled " Operating Systems Don't Matter ". As I wrote in the comments to that post, I was a partcipant in a concrete example of his thesis: Digital Research, Inc. DRI wrote and distributed Read More...
It was 30 years ago today that I started, in earnest, to build Pascal/MT [wikipedia link], the first source-code-to-binary Pascal compiler. In those days one could either use UCSD Pascal (a P-code compiler/interpreter) or Pascal/Z which compiled to Z80 Read More...
The nice folks at Seattle 2.0 webcast the Cloudcamp sessions . It was a great day with brilliant people and awesome energy. Recorded versions should be available soon. Read More...
Tomorrow, I am going to start podcasting and blogging regularly again. My day job (at Microsoft) has been consuming every spare cycle that I didn't need to eat and/or live but many things are converging which have inspired me to, once again, be attentive Read More...
I've just started a new separate blog over at http://independentinnovation.posterous.com/ which purports to be a zero-friction blogging platform. The appeal, for me, is that I can post blog entries via email instead of having to be connected either Read More...
Over on The Positivity Blog , Henrik Edberg, a 27 year old student from Sweden, gives us 7 Tips for Living a Happier Life, derived from Aesop of the "Fables" fame . Here are the 2500-year-old gems of wisdom (see Henrik's blog for more details): Read More...
Ok, this is just too fun to pass up: http://putthingsoff.com/ In Nick Cernis' own words: " Put Things Off (PTO) helps freelancers, entrepreneurs and busy people just like you work smarter, play harder and live the lives they love. PTO talks about Read More...
Steve Rubel, with whom (and a few others) I once tried to form a Mastermind group (our schedules never could mesh), has a great new post about Three Ways To Mitigate the Attention Crash . Summary: Inbox Zero - www.inboxzero.com - A technique to use "email Read More...
Clay Shirky's talk at Web 2.0 Expo this week, finally enabled me to figure out where to get the time to create podcasts, eBooks, etc.... STOP WATCHING TELEVISION (or at least sitcoms)... Your thoughts/comments? What do you to to make time to create Read More...
At the Web 2.0 Expo this week. Interesting conversations with people who are at the forefront of moving the world to (and from) the web. Hanging in the blogger's lounge the energy is amazingly high (and this is during the keynotes!) Good connectivity, Read More...
Ok, September has officially started and life is back "in session". After moving, a great vacation and recovering from the digital debt of being "off-the-grid" for 12 days in a row (a record in recent history!) I'm now ready to Read More...
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