Programming and politics

A couple of months ago, I wrote a little Android app called Phone Number Fixer . I wrote this for my friend Maria, but decided to put it on ...

For a couple of years now, I have used a Logitech V470 mouse. It is a laser mouse that uses bluetooth. I've used it with a black MacBoo...

I was one of the millions who watched Lebron James announce that he would play for the Miami Heat next year. I have to say that the aftermat...

By now you’ve seen the ads. Anyone who works in mobile totally saw it coming . It’s the supposed revolutionary way to do multitasking in iOS...

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...

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...