While at the 360 Flex conference in Seattle, I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to be on the Flex Show with Jeffry Houser and Adobe Flex evangelist Ryan Stewart. I am already a regular listener, so it was really cool to get the chance to be live on AIR (bad pun intended). I [...]
At this year's RailsConf, Dave Thomas wrote about the Rails community as they set a precedent for other tech conferences by skipping the typical swag and instead donating any funds to charity. Fellow SDNer, Nigel James, then picked up on the meme by calling out to the SAP developer community and then shortly afterwards, it caught some momentum with the Redmonk guys [...]
If you are a fan of Minesweeper, you will love this. Thanks to Matthias for passing this along.
In honor of the Vendorprisey post last week about facebook's geographic diversion, I had to post this YouTube video below. It really did have me LOL.
I must admit, I'm really not sold yet on the value of Facebook for the Enterprise, but I do think it was pretty brilliant to open it up as [...]
The crowd is starting to get restless with new social networking sites springing up everyday. The recent buzz with Pownce has everyone wondering if they will now have to abandon Twitter for yet ANOTHER messaging tool. Even the king socialite Scoble seems to be getting tired of it in one of his latest [...]
My wife, Lauren, and I just returned last week from our wonderful vacation in Malpais, Costa Rica. Even though it was the rainy season, we had a great time. We stayed at the Moana Lodge and met some really cool people. We made some great new friends with the owners, Aidan, a [...]
If you don't know what the cluetrain is, then you need to hop over to www.cluetrain.com and check it out. For now, here is the quick and dirty:
A powerful global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed. As a direct result, [...]
Good: It is good when your users are excited about your product. When they tell their friends about it, blog about it, and even shoot videos of it, you are doing something right. Check out this video of Robert Scoble talking and getting excited about Twitter.
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Bad: It is not good when [...]
I often wonder if there are actually people who buy things from the ads that they see on websites, blogs, etc. I really don't think I have ever bought a single product from this type of advertising model. This seems to be the current way to monetize users, so I suppose there is [...]
Unless you have been living under a rock since last December, you have undoubtedly heard about Nintendo's latest generation game console, Wii. Wii has taken the world by storm with it's innovation and simplicity.
Perhaps the most intriguing feature of the system is the Wii remote control, also known as the Wiimote. The Wiimote [...]
Last year, a big eye opener for me was watching Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth. More recently, I have been reading Thomas Friedman's new book Hot, Flat, and Crowded. It's sad and depressing to watch, even in the span of my own lifetime, what we are doing to our precious planet. [...]
Last week, I was introduced to an application called feedly by one of my fellow Enterprise Irregulars, Anshu Sharma. From the home page, it's described as "…a firefox extension which weaves twitter and Google Reader into a magazine like experience." In Anhsu's blog post, his focus is on the new service called feedly [...]
A lot of people ask me if the the lake that I live on in New Jersey freezes in the winter. It does indeed freeze solid, and it's really cool to see the different winter activities on the lake. Some things you would expect, and some others that are a little less known. [...]
Last year, a small group of some of my fellow enterprise developers decided to form a small group known as the Enterprise Geeks. Right now the group members are as follows:
Craig Cmehil
Dan McWeeney
Ed Herrmann
Rich Heilman
Thomas Jung
This week we have launched the new site where we will be maintaining a blog, podcast, and all kinds [...]
As Joel Spolsky explains in his post The Iceberg Secret, Revealed, the user interface usually represents less than 10% of the actual functionality of the entire application.
You know how an iceberg is 90% underwater? Well, most software is like that too — there's a pretty user interface that takes about 10% of the work, and [...]
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