Chasing the Power Curve

Someone asked me recently about my leadership style and how I approach building great teams.  That’s not a question answered in a few minutes – there’s a lot to the subject, as far as I am concerned.  I have blogged before about “How to Build Fantastic Engineering Teams” but I wanted to add a few [...]

Much to my wife’s displeasure I’ve done a lot of foursquare check ins over the last months.  The whole notion of it always seemed to be an invasion of my personal privacy, but hey, this mobile thing is really the next wave (I *still* know that in my bones) and somehow foursquare had some buzz, [...]

AT&T will no longer offer new subscribers buying an unlimited data plan (starting June 7).  This has been predicted for a long time, but it’s sad to see it actually happen.  In my mind it’s a naked grab for cash.  The mobile web is the fastest growing segment of the Internet and clearly AT&T wants [...]

The last few weeks have been a twisted series of thoughts for me about the Nexus One.  The event that started it all was a drop.  It slipped, from belt level to the ground.  And shattered the glass.  Considering that I have dropped my Blackberry Bold before – oh, a hundred times or so and [...]

Had a crashed disk that took my blog out just before a planned trip to Tahoe.  The blog is restored – this time in the cloud at SliceHost.  Sorry for the inconvenience.  I have some posts planned for the near future:  Android Development, more comments on Apple’s Evil Moves, and some pictures from my Tahoe [...]

Lately I’ve seen a flurry of postings about patents that clearly indicate a lack of understanding about patents as property. Before I write anything more I have to say that I am not an attorney or a registered patent agent.  I have a lot of experience with patents though.

Like any other property right, patents may [...]

Wordpress is pretty heavy on resources for my needs.  Even if I tune Apache and MySQL it’s hard to get it to perform well on a 256MB machine.  Why 256?  That’s the lowest offered from Slicehost.  By the way, I like them a lot.  You get a great server in minutes.  256MB with 100MB in/100MB [...]

It’s almost comical now.  Apple is really getting silly.  According to PC Week Apple has banned the word ‘Android’ in apps submitted to the App Store.  The article has a great summary of the evil doings of Apple around the iPhone so I won’t reproduce it here.  But it’s clear that Apple is feeling a [...]