Wide Teams – Distributed Development
A friend of mine has launched a blog that discusses the advantages and pitfalls of “wide teams” (distributed development teams). http://wideteams.com/ Today’s guest blog addresses a number of those issues. Below is a response by me, on how many local development teams create many of the same problems and inhibit team development. Often with teams [...]
Anti-Apple….
Yes, I think I have fully moved back into the anti-Apple camp. – My wife dropped her iPhone. It dislodged some buttons, then later the screen went gray from a dislodged cable. She went to an AT&T store. They sent her out to the Apple Store (about 45 minutes away). Who did jack. Except offer [...]
On iTunes being crap…
Had a commenter post about Apple being about user experience…well mine’s pretty much been hellish. Particularly as it relates to iTunes. For example, iTunes no longer wants to play my DRM’d purchases. Keeps wanting me to authorize computer, only to tell me it is already authorized – well if it’s authorized WHY WON’T YOU PLAY! [...]
Is Adobe missing a great opportunity?
Adobe, has an opportunity to hit back at Apple. I believe Apple has clearly shown that they have no interest in working with Adobe, and that no amount of good effort on Adobe’s part will win Steve over. I am of the opinion that Adobe should begin supporting the counter-culture following of the iPhone. Presently, [...]
Steve Jobs further pushes me away from the iPhone camp
Recent news is that Steve Jobs has furthered his pettiness and going beyond just not allowing Flash on the iPhone/iPad, is now preventing applications not written on Apple’s proprietary platform from being loaded on the iPhone. Essentially, Apple requires you to buy one of their over-priced proprietary machines in order to gain access to their [...]
MyWi – iPhone internet for you and friends
Having jailbroken my iPhone a few months back. One of the most invaluable apps is MyWi. MyWi creates a WiFi access point for your laptop (and the laptop of friends) to connect to. No need to create an ad-hoc network, nada. Performance is pretty decent. Per http://speedtest.dslreports.com Download 564 Kb/s Upload 417 kb/s Latency 238 ms [...]
Windows 7 – Quick Review “I like it!”
Okay, so here’s the situation. A few weeks ago Dell replaced my aging e1705 laptop under warranty. (Was acting up, giving me a lot of BSODs, and memory parity issues. Had already been refurbished a couple of months earlier.) They replaced it with a new model Studio 17(45). Pretty nice setup, better performer, current tech [...]
iTunes WORST SOFTWARE
iTunes has got to be the biggest pain in the butt I have dealt with in several years. It is fine if all you’re going to do is use iTunes locally. But it degrades if you do any of the following: - Move your library to a NAS, as it quickly outgrows the available space [...]
How to enable CNTRL-T tab in Flash
We’ve all been there. Casually browsing online, viewing some Flash powered site. We see something and we want to Google or Wikipedia it. So we hit CNTRL-T. Brain Crash! Nothing happens and it seems like our brain is just hanging there in a suspended state waiting for the event to complete – but it never [...]
Set Me Free! Adventures in Jailbreakin my iPhone
This weekend I jailbroke our iPhones. It was actually a pretty painless adventure. So what are the benefits? - can now record video - tether my iPhone to my laptop - once again I have free memory tool Disadvantage! It opens you up to a iPhone worm that can infect jailbroken iPhones unless you update [...]
