June 2010
The Case for HTML5 Mobile Apps →
The glaring (and unaddressed) problem with mobile web apps is monetizations. The mobile app stores provide the best monetization method for independent developers.
Portable Documentation Format →
I have been a big fan of having a third screen with tech docs for a long time. In 2002 I sent an email to O’Reilly publishing suggesting PDFs of their popular “pocket reference” series. At the time…
Losing My Religion →
Early in my technical career my dad started drilling “don’t be religious about technology” into my head. It is something that I have really tried to hang on to over the years and it has had a…
Goal Seek Travel →
In Microsoft Excel there is a tool called Goal Seek. You use it when you know how all the pieces fit together, and you know what you want the end result to be, and you need to know how to make it…
The Wrong Lesson →
AT&T Learns Exactly the Wrong Thing About Data Usage:
The more data people use the more entrenched the phone becomes in their lives. People (like me) who stream tons of audio, randomly play…