It’s a personal assistant for online services, available to act at a moment’s notice to things that happen in your sleep, or when you have better things to do. “If This Then That”, or ifttt.com, is a service that has been around for over a year now, and I’ve used it for several projects in [...]
For thousands of developers, ColdFusion still pays the bills, and likely will for some time to come, if judging only by the growth in the markets where it is most prominent. Adobe says that CF is thriving with a community of more than half a million developers, but how many of those developers are thriving [...]
I’m generally impressed with Amazon’s uncanny ability to predict the next book I will buy. On more than one occasion, I have clicked the Amazon link in my bookmarks on the day a new book comes out, only to have that book specifically recommended for me based on my buying history. I fully expect them [...]
Each year, I’m surprised by the lack of a change to the university textbook industry. It’s been a while since I graced the halls of a university, but I will always remember the sinking feeling that overcame me as I looked at the $115 price of a very thin, yet required textbook for my discreet [...]
There’s a fantastic article in the New York Times about a boy whose life has been changed by the iPad. It mirrors many of my experiences with my son, so I’m reposting this article I wrote for the Hands and Voices Newsletter. When my son Scott first saw an iPhone, he was four years old. [...]
The following is a guest post I wrote for the Parallels Blog. I’m a web developer working at a huge company, and as far as I know, I’m the only one using a Mac. We develop web based software for several clients and naturally maintain a myriad of servers with various staging and development environments. [...]