Programming and politics

Friday was my last day at Bump Technologies. It's been a little shorter ride there than I expected, but still a very rewarding one. Bef...

This is the second post about mobile architecture. In the first post, I talked about how the evolution from web applications has led to arch...

The boom in mobile applications has been fueled by excellent application frameworks from Apple and Google. Cocoa Touch and Android take some...

I've commented a little on some of my thoughts about the Occupy Wall Street movement . As someone who values personal freedom and libert...

One of the cool feature of the Android SDK is the MediaStore ContentProvider. This is basically a database with metadata about all of the ph...

The Occupy Wall Street movement is an interesting one to me. I have a lot of empathy for the people involved in the movement. They make a lo...

Yesterday Android developer advocate Reto Meier asked about what developers loved/hated about application frameworks . It got me thinking ab...

Wikipedia describes offshoring as "the relocation of a business process from one country to another." There once was a time in Si...

As someone who develops Android apps for a living and who has worked on two Android apps that have been downloaded 10M+ each, I know about f...

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....

Today I was working on some code that needed to invoke a JavaScript function on a web page that was being displayed in a WebView within an A...

So far I've been pretty disappointed with the Samsung Chromebook that Google gave me for attending I/O this year. That sounds pretty ung...

Today was the much anticipated US launch of Spotify. I've been using Rdio for several months, and really love it . Not surprisingly, the...

Remember when Netflix started making us wait two weeks to get new releases? It was supposed to be a tradeoff to get more streaming content f...

So you might have heard this week that there's this new social networking thing (*yawn*) called Google+ . That's right, it's fr...

There's never any shortage of people debating mobile web apps vs. native apps. I don't want to waste your time with yet another reha...

Last month I wrote a bit about cloud music . Since then Apple got in the game with iTunes in the iCloud. I'm not a fan of it because you...

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, ...

For nearly a decade now technology pundits have been talking about the end of Moore's Law . Just this week, The Economist ran an article...