Programming and politics

At the beginning of this year, I bought a MacBook Air. I bought a maxed out one, with a 13" screen, 2.13 GHz cpu, 4 gb ram, 256 gb SSD....

When people talk about smartphones, they often mean iPhones and Android phones. Sure there are still Blackberries out there, I think I once ...

This week was WWDC 2011. Last year I was lucky enough to attend what appears to be the final stevenote . This year I followed along online, ...

Tomorrow is WWDC. Much like how I had an Android wish list for Google I/O  (and I got my top two wishes!) a few weeks ago, I have one for th...

"You're either with me or against me!" Does this feel like the rhetoric coming out of Google and Apple lately? Sometimes I wo...

I'm sure by now you've read "Steve Jobs"'s Thoughts on Flash . Did it convince you? Do you think it was truthful? Not ...

I'm on vacation right now. Earlier in the week, I took my kids to the Kennedy Space Center: Now I am in my hometown of Panama City, Fl...

I recently purchased a Nexus One, primarily for Android development. I needed a device for developing Android 2.0+ on. The 2.0 SDK has been ...

Has any piece of technology ever been more anticipated than the iPad? Has anything created as many extreme reactions? Has anything generated...

If you are a long time reader of this blog ... nevermind there are no long time readers of this blog. Anyways as it turns out, two of my mos...

I've been using iLife '09 since it came out. I've made heavy use of its integration with Facebook and Flickr. One of the feature...

Right now Apple and Google are in the midst of major upgrades to the OS on their devices, the iPhone OS and Android. If you develop for thes...

If you are an iPhone developer, you were probably excited about Apple revealing a beta of OS 3.0 and the corresponding beta of SDK 3.0. Ther...

If you're lucky enough to experience my TwitStream lately, then you might have noticed that I've been doing some iPhone development...

It was fun to watch the WWDC keynote today on MacRumors. It was even more fun to watch things on summize as Twitter held up admirably during...

I got Office 2008 for my MacBook, and I have to say, I love it so far. Actually, I should say that I love PowerPoint and Entourage, as those...

I've been working some lately with DB2. The worst thing about DB2, at least for a Mac-totin' developer, is that DB2 is not (yet) ava...

There's been a lot of developers upset that Leopard does not include Java 6 . Does this make the Mac a poor choice of Java developers? N...

Am I going to buy Leopard? Take a look at this desktop... Yep, I think I need stacks .