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In addition to the daily delight of driving our new consulting/mobile app venture, DreamTimeStudioZ , forward, I am exploring other software-related but not software-producing consulting opportunities. To prepare for this new adventure, a full-on, comprehensive Read More...
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...
Ok, want to follow on Twitter? http://www.twitter.com/onpcdev Want to comment about OnPC Development? Use #onpc and/or #onpcdev hashtags. 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...
Gnomedex 10 , the next, and perhaps final, annual gathering of the facinating and interesting, hosted by fellow ex-Iowan Chris Pirillo , starts tomorrow (August 19th) here in Seattle. I'm looking forward to catching up with old friends and making Read More...
I am very, very proud to say that my team at Microsoft shipped Feature Builder 1.0 - a Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010 which enables developers to create Visual Studio Extensions which incorporate templates, guidance and tools. This "1.0" Read More...
It’s been nearly a year since I posted this: “ Since February, I … have [started] spending my time working more closely with the Visual Studio team and am looking forward to seeing what comes from that collaboration. ” Today, 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...
Just signed up for Cloud Camp Seattle which is tomorrow Feb 28. There are 34 free tickets left and it looks like it's going to be very interesting. “CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. 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...
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