Programming and politics

One of the curses of working with computers is that you often become The IT person for friends and family. In fact, I should get a commissio...

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

This Wednesday is the first day of Google I/O. Google has a lot of very interesting technologies and many of those will have some new featur...

... by my "Android in Practice" co-author, Charlie Collins: Unlocking Android Development on Prezi

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...

So you might have heard about this... This Saturday, April 3, there's a new computer coming out from Apple. You might have heard about ...

Today I read a blog pos t by @joestump where he attempted to refute claims that Digg had been "doing it wrong" when they could n...

This past week was Microsoft's MIX conference. I almost went to it, and I would have gone if it was not the same week as my oldest son...

Using geolocation in a web application is really cool. The JavaScript API is quite simple. Testing it, can be a different story. Here are so...

Last week I was reading an excellent article by Bill Simmons on the "true" trade value of NBA players. While talking about likel...

I have been working on mobile at eBay since the fall of 2008. Almost immediately upon joining the team, I started running my mouth about how...

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 ...

For Christmas this year, I bought my kids (ages 4 and 5) their first computer: an Acer Revo. I call this the anti-netbook, but it actually s...

Earlier this week I read yet another fascinating post by Peter-Paul Koch . In this post, @ppk takes on developers who think that developing ...

Way back in 2006, I was working for a startup, originally called Sharefare and later renamed to Ludi Labs. When I first joined Sharefare, we...

This morning, one of my co-workers related to me that there had been mention of HTML 5 on an NPR broadcast that he heard. He joked that this...

The iPad announcement had lots of subtleties to it. One of them was that the iPad browser, presumably Safari, does not include a Flash plugi...

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

This morning, my co-worker Jason Swartz had the great idea of a conference focussing on JVM languages . This seemed like a particularly go...