As I went to the gym with my son, I fired up Jefit on an old iPod Touch I borrowed from my boy only to discover that the developers have upped the minimum requirements.  I need iOS 5 or higher to run it now, which sadly the old device I was using is not capable of supporting. I am a bit of a fitness junkie, not so much in looking cut but rather enjoy using the tech that [...]

My first web computer course starts this week at Udacity.  I signed up for CS 101: Building a Search Engine taught by Dr. David Evans and Dr. Sebastian Thrun.  Dr. Evans is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia and Dr. Thrun is a Research Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.  Though I can hack the heck out of code, I need structured learning to create something new.  My CS background [...]

Recently my team had to move a WordPress MU instance from a sub-domain to a root directory model.  Oh, for those who do not understand what I just said, WordPress MU gives administrators the ability to create blogs on the fly for their authors and manage the domain space as either a sub-domain (http://blog_title.domain.com/) or part of the root directory (http://domain.com/blog_title/), read about it here.  After rebuilding the environment and updating DNS with the new [...]

I love the innovation that is occurring in the field of visual application development. The tools we have today allows anyone to jump in and get started with just a simple idea or sketch. You can never really build a custom app without a bit of coding but visual tools provide a great framework to start from. Kind of like training wheels for a new environment. 280 North is demonstrating their new tool called Atlas [...]

Just yesterday, I was talking to a friend at work about my thoughts on the Kindle 2.  Can the new Kindle finally be the go to device for reading any and all materials?  The conversation went back and forth about functionality.  The Kindle just does not add anything new other than the potential impulse buy capability of 3G.  I proposed the idea of an application that can create wikis for text.  So let’s say you [...]