May 2012
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Robo Calls and Personal Information
I received an automated call today from my pharmacy calling to remind me to pick up a prescription refill. The robot voice asked for personal information to verify my identity.
Huh!? People, do not give out personal information to someone who calls you. You have no way to verify they are who they say.
When my credit card company calls about a potential fraud, I politely decline the call,...
February 2012
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Dell: we're no longer a PC company | News | PC Pro →
Another casualty of the rise of the mobile device. Dell changes strategy.
ARTICLE: Windows 8 is about the Future →
This article from Hal Berenson has an interesting take on Windows development of the new UI, programming model, and ARM support up to Windows 8.
The way I think people should interpret Windows 8 is that the Windows business was at the precipice, about to start a prolonged decline. Microsoft decided it was time to go big or go home.
I agree. If Windows 8 is not a big hit, then Microsoft...
January 2012
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Google, Look Out Behind You! →
TechCrunch guest author Keith Teare reports on Apple’s 1Q win and Google’s 1Q loss are due to trends in mobile. I don’t know that the title is fair, given that Apple Passed Google’s Market Cap in 2010, but the article points out another symptom of a big change. It also links to another interesting piece Smart Mobile and Thin Cloud by the same author.
First Raspberry Pi's being auctioned on Ebay
The inexpensive tablet market is getting some traction this year. The first ten Raspberry Pi’s are being auctioned off on ebay. Click the link and then click through to ebay to see what they are going for: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/489
$60 Tablet from India →
A tablet designed primarily for student needs is being subsidized by the Indian government.
Read the article in Venture Beat, or go to http://www.akashtablet.com/ to pre-order the next version.
December 2011
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The Parable of RIM →
A tale of the smartphone and tablet market through the lens of the falling-out-of fashion blackberry. From Horace Deidu at Asymco.com.
The rise and rise of JavaScript →
Dan North offers a history of the Javascript language, and in some ways a technical history of web development in general. Thanks to jackhq for re-blogging.
The Raspberry Pi →
A charitable organisation in the UK is developing a credit-card-sized computer that will cost around $35. It should be available later this year. Plug in a keyboard, mouse, and hook it up to your television and you’re good to go!
October 2011
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Volunteering for BarCamp
This past weekend Charleston experienced its 3rd annual BarCamp. I had had a great time helping organize the event, and my company contributed as a sponsor.
BarCamp brings together a group of creative minds (and when I say creative, I mean it in a broad sense including technical, business, and design) who give presentations and get to know each other.
I attended an energizing presentation on...
September 2011
5 posts
New Tablet Entry from Amazon →
JackHQ: get-post - Simple JSON CLI →
jackhq:
get-post is a little nodejs project that provides two command line applications:
get and # post
This applications allow you to get json from a server or post json to a server. It is that simple.
get http://twitter.com/search.json?q=nodejs post http://echo-json.heroku.com...
The Race is on for a Cheaper Tablet
Technology innovations tend to come about gradually, but every now and then we get to see a defining moment or period in time. Consider what has happened since August 2011.
On Aug 9, Apple surpassed Exxon for a short time as the largest US company. The next week we learned that Google would acquire Motorola’s Handset business, giving it ownership of some of the most popular Android mobile...
August 2011
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July 2011
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Jack Russell Software Hiring in Charelston
jackhq:
We are looking for #rubyonrails developers that want to improve #healthcareIT and loves #chs or #phl
http://jackhq.com/contact
Five Reasons I like Google+
1) The user interface is clean and easy to understand.
2) Privacy is step one. The first thing you do is add friends to a Circle. The circle allows you to control who sees each post. Facebook didn’t introduce groups until I had so many friends it seemed to hard to do.
3) Understandible privacy settings. The security settings are relatively easy to understand. An explanation of the...
September 2010
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Getting Things Started
Last month I had the opportunity to see Dave Allen speak at a conference. Allen is author of Getting Things Done (GTD). The conference was BizConf 2010, held on Amelia Island, FL. BizConf is a business-oriented conference that boasts a number of high-profile speakers from the software development world, particularly the Ruby-on-Rails crowd.
Most of the attendees were involved with software...