Category: making
-
Clarity in the cloud & congratulations to whurley
Open source “evil genius” whurley has announced he will be writing a column for InfoWorld on cloud computing, and it appears that his initial focus will be to help bring clarity to ‘just what cloud computing means’. I’m looking forward to reading it.
-
Oh CouchDB, Why Do I Love Thee So…?
Ok, so why are my friends and co-workers noticing my minor obsession about CouchDB? There’s a few reasons. First, I have a long-term unlove-affair with RDBMS. Why? I started off working in the UNIX kernel (V6 anyone?) and there’s no stinking databases in there… just some filesystem stuff After learning and using C, I jumped…
-
Twitter Updates for 2008-12-03
housekeeping on my blog. remember blogs? so last … decade? years? # @juliegomoll – more of a tweak at those who ‘left behind’ long-form-blogs and now only do short-form-tweets in reply to juliegomoll # @danbenjamin for SXSW, it’s nearby and very cool: San Jose on S. Congress in reply to danbenjamin # A tough week…
-
Rails, Ruby and other Open Source Components – Better During the Downturn?
With the economic downturn, financial pressures increases on technologuy budgets (whether commercial, large / small enterprise, startup or non-profit).Increased productivity + open source + prevalence in the ‘cloud’ (regardless of your definition of ‘cloud’) bodes well for the Rails + Ruby eco-system.I’m biased, as are the rest of us at FiveRuns – but we’re not the only ones saying this.Â
-
Obama ’08 for iPhone
Hot off the press – an iPhone app to accelerate the Obama ’08 campaign! Thanks to my friend (and open source guru) Raven Zachary, I had the privilege of beta testing the new Obama ’08 for iPhone application. The idea, the potential and the implementation is tremendous – create grassroots opportunities to participate at the…
-
“Finding Paths Through the Worlds Photos”, Blade Runner & Pseudo-Ghosts?
Finding Paths Through the Worlds Photos (via webware.com) is a stunning example of stitching together collections of 2d photos and navigating them in 3d.I can’t help but be reminded of the scene from Blade Runner where the main character takes what appears to be a 2d photo, enhances and looks around a corner (or similar). I…
-
FiveRuns
I haven’t even noted anything different here – but on Oct 1st ‘07, I joined FiveRuns as their VP of Development and Technology. A lot is brewing there, and the fruits of of our work will be visible soon. Recently, I’ve begun to blog there as well. On occasion, I’ll link through from here to…
-
Down To The Desktop Or Up Into The Clouds
I think that my recent purchase of the iPhone has tipped the balance in quandry I’ve had. It goes something like this: I’ve wanted a better tool to manage my professional relationships (something I’ve been thinking of as a personal CRM). As a result, I’ve been looking for what Mac apps fill that niche –…
-
My profiles, managed by me…
So if vertical social networks become popular, then the horizontal problem becomes intestering, e.g. how to manage one identity across multiple services. OpenID provides authentication, but nothing beyond that. What about profile data ala Google’s form-fill? How? Consider this – if an OpenID enabled set of tools existed to extend OpenId so that when you…
-
iPhone
So I’ve made the plunge and bought an iPhone. Half the joy is in using such a beautifully designed product – every aspect of the experience shows so much thought. I can only add my kudos, and continue to be frustrated at how low the standards are for so many products.
Steve Sanderson 