Archive for Personal
New Android SDK, Terracotta 3.2 and here I go to bootcamp again
This week, I signed up for the upcoming Big Nerd Ranch Android bootcamp near Atlanta. I attended the iPhone bootcamp last year and it was great. I’m expecting great things out of the class. It is taught by Mark Murphy, the founder of CommonsWare and the author of Busy Coder’s Guide to Android Development. I’ve [...]
Story Driven Development with Cucumber, RightScale and Punk Rock HR
This past week, Sean Cribbs presented “Story-Driven Development with Cucumber” at the Charlotte Ruby User Group. I’m still trying to get the hang of Ruby, but I have to admit, there are a lot of cool tools around the Ruby community, and Cucumber is no different.
Here are a couple of items that I gleaned from [...]
Mobile analytics, Terrastore and getting off your butt
According to releases from both companies on 12/23, Pinch Media and Flurry are merging. I’m using both providers and have been pleased with both of them. I’m really looking forward to combined company and the new products that they will bring to market over the next year.
I still haven’t tried out Google Analytics for mobile [...]
Google Checkout resolution, fun with Terracotta and some extremely personal stuff
If you at my last post, you’ll see I was whining a bit about Google Checkout and Google Adwords. Fortunately, that was resolved this week. Google re-opened my Adwords account (yay!, even though I’m not using it right now) which then allowed my credit card to work with Google Checkout. Lesson learned…Google’s left hand doesn’t [...]
I’m returning on a jet airplane…
I’m waiting in DFW for a connection back to Charlotte. I was in College Station the past couple of days attending a conference put on by my friends Steve and Kerry Beck, the owners of FamilyEbiz. I’ve known Steve and Kerry for the past few years and it was good to hang out with them [...]
How could I forget the title?
Fortunately for me, it’s been a very quiet week. We’ve had minimal issues from the client launch last weekend. We’ve found a couple of things to cleanup, but nothing major. It made my trip to Dallas for the weekend a lot more sane not always having to constantly look over my shoulder, or in this [...]
Do as I say, not as I do
“Proper planning will keep things from turning into emergencies. Lack of planning makes everything an emergency.” – @scottjallen
I broke one of my cardinal rules over Labor Day weekend and I meant to blog about it last week, but I was too ashamed to admit what I did. I jumped the gun and upgraded the trusty [...]
Don’t hide your pyro under a basket…it’ll burn it up
This has been a very interesting past few weeks. For the people that follow me, you may notice that I didn’t post last week and my tweets have been sparse. The short story is I ended up having to go the doctor unexpectedly last week, but everything is all good, so thanks for asking.
I have [...]
Everything I ever needed to know, I learned from Tron and Ehcache
As I write, I’m cruising at 27,000 feet from Miami to Charlotte after spending part of the week on site with a client. Very productive, but the week flew by way too fast.
This week had some fairly major announcements in the Java arena. Terracotta acquired Ehcache. That’s probably the best news I’ve had all year. [...]
Lines, nerds and bears…oh, my
Ok…that’s not really an original line, but stick with me. Hopefully it will make sense as I move through this.
Here’s the attempt at “Lines”
Remember last week I was whining about all the WordPress upgrades I had to do the previous week? There was yet another one this week (2.8.4) and it was an interesting one. [...]