I am in the middle of some patent applications in the US at the same time as all the recent press about patent “trolls” going after small (and large) iOS developers. These things have made me think more than usual about the patent system. I think the root problems are the following: Legal costs or…
Am I Fierce?
May 18, ’11 8:45 PM
I love Dropbox and use it every day. I love Flipboard and use it every day. So imagine my reaction to seeing my (and my co-founders’) little company named as one of the 15 coolest young companies in the world next to all these great companies. That was really special. Fierce Wireless about Great Connection…
Minimalist WordPress Deployment
May 17, ’11 1:23 PM
So, my “sugar daddy” datacenter is kicking me out. This is where I have been hosting absolutely free for a decade so I have nothing bad to say about them… at all. My 4U quad-core2duo, 4GB RAM, 8TB SATA beast will soon become homeless…. Did I mention they let me host that monster for free?…
Offensively lazy web developers
Oct 30, ’10 8:55 PM
There exist many websites and web applications with elements of poor usability, engineering, design and so on. Some exhibit features so poor I can only attribute them to laziness. Some actually make me feel offended that I have to jump through hoops to accommodate their laziness. Top of my list are form fields for postcodes,…
My Reasons for Jailbreaking
Aug 29, ’10 8:32 PM
I don’t generally use my iPhone jailbroken. But every time I go on vacation of a weekend trip I make sure I jailbreak the phone in advance. I do this to get access to only a very small number of features that really should be part of the OS. Internet Sharing using MyWi MyWi does…
Developing my first iPhone App
Jul 2, ’10 11:02 AM
While my friends were playing Red Dead Redemption I finally got my feet wet in the iPhone SDK. My first app is available on the App Store after a surprisingly short development time. The app is called Extraction and it is a simple Espresso timer for coffee nerds like myself. You can read more about…
Extraction 1.0 and 1.1
Jun 25, ’10 8:33 AM
Version 1.0 of Extraction, my first iPhone app, was released on the App Store yesterday. I am very excited about the whole thing. Duh! Version 1.1 has already been submitted for review. It adds iOS4 compatibility and iPhone 4 high-res graphics. Extraction is a simple timer and records-keeper for espresso brewing. You may need to…
My work at the 2010 CES in Las Vegas
Jan 18, ’10 3:18 PM
This is so cool My work at Great Connection: developing, filing patents, taking meetings, and most of all drinking coffee, has finally been outed is a significant way. Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, the CEO of Qualcomm and Dr. Eric J. Topol, a most prominent medical doctor working to improve IT in medicine, demonstrated Mobile Baby…
Why I switched to WordPress
Nov 30, ’09 5:22 PM
Last week (november, 2009) I installed WordPress as the CMS for this website. I wanted to explain the rationale behind this move. I’ll explain why a web-developer would get an “off the rack” CMS and on top of that pick a commercial theme template to go with it. Why not build my own CMS? Why…