Category General Interest

My Reasons for Jailbreaking

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

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

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

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

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 [...]