April 2010
4 posts
1 tag
Quotes from Voices That Matter iPhone 2010 in...
Last weekend, I attended the Voices that Matter iPhone conference. Here are some comments which caught my attention:
“Assuming you already have a bunch of iPod touches, that’s the affordable solution.” - Aaron Hillegass, regarding an application built for a client.
“I hope that’s documented… Pretty important.” -Jonathan Rentzsch, regarding the trick for making parameterized model based requests...
“I’m embarrassed to actually use the iPad for anything. I’m leaving it under my...”
– Shawn Blanc. I have the same issue. I won’t take out my iPad on the train unless another nearby passenger has one. (via marco)
“If you are creative, create. Otherwise, strive to find a strong-willed Jobs...”
– Loper OS » Non-Apple’s Mistake - Where are the next great computing interfaces going to come from? It’s probably not going to be another big company.
“The iPad is probably one of the coolest ways to show presentations to someone...”
– Smitten by the iPad: thoughts and complaints. » Harper Reed: Tech, Mobile, Yo-yoing and Death Metal
March 2010
4 posts
“At first, I was shocked. How could she possibly not know her own boyfriend’s...”
– My Head is in the Cloud via Daring Fireball
This is the song Glenn “Pops” Freeman...
“Print is dying.
Digital is surging.
Everyone is confused.
GOOD RIDDANCE.”
– Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod
December 2009
4 posts
“Just an idea: next time you see something you like, write the person who made it...”
– Favrd. - Sadly, I didn’t write a note to him. I’d like to claim it’s because there was no contact info on the page… but being honest… I don’t know if I would have written something if there was contact info.
“IT pros always and without fail, quietly self-organize around those who make the...”
– Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks
“In other words, though camel case may have been spurred by recent technology,...”
– On Language - Against Camel Case - NYTimes.com
July 2009
1 post
Beginning iPhone development
I got an iPhone a few weeks ago. This week, other plans fell through, and I found myself with some extra time. I decided to see if I could make a basic iPhone application in a week. But, I’ve never done any desktop GUI programming, don’t know Objective-C, and have never done any mobile dev. Should be interesting. ;)
First two days of iPhone dev. OK so far. Given where I’m...
April 2009
3 posts
Presentation Camp Seattle 2009
I went to Presentation Camp Seattle a few weeks ago. It was pitched as: PresentationCamp is an ad-hoc gathering of passionate folks who want to share, interact and spread the love around the topic of presentation design and delivery. It’s for anyone interested in public speaking, pitching and presenting.
I had a great time. I’m a big fan of these topic specific ad hoc events....
PyCon linkdump
If you’re not into Python, skip this.
Here’s a huge pile of things I ran into or was reminded of at PyCon this year. All are things I plan to go back and check out at some point.
Jitter (/jay-it-er/) is a presentation library built on and with jQuery. http://aminus.net/wiki/Jitter
Dowser: a CherryPy app that displays sparklines of Python object counts, and allows you to...
PyCon Wrapup
I look forward to PyCon every year. It’s a gathering of smart, capable, motivated and friendly people. It’s also the best run conference I’ve been too. Amazing work by a dedicated group of volunteers. Thanks everyone! I recommend checking out Ted Leung’s photos of PyCon 2009.
Tutorials
There were many excellent looking tutorials at PyCon this year. I missed them all, but...
March 2009
1 post
First Post! :)
I’ve just started a blog, and this is it!
The basic plan is to treat this like a sort of lab notebook. A place for jotting down ideas, things I’ve learned, the results of experiments and what I’m up to.
The hope is that it’ll help me clarify my thoughts, remember what I’ve been working on, be interesting for you and help connect people who are interested in similar...