December 24, 2011 | In: General Discussions
Onver the last short while, I've been putting together a new service aimed at delivering Facebook-style feature introductions to any web application/site. You know, the little step-by-step walkthroughs of what's new/changed. In the interest of being lean,...
October 21, 2010 | In: General Discussions
Great article about Steve Jobs and John Sculley. Business Week The article mentions (a number of times) Jobs' obsession of starting with the point of user interaction and working backwards. Strong agreement from me there. The idea of Sony wanting to...
September 5, 2010 | In: General Discussions
Put together a bit of Groovy code that will traverse your iTunes Mobile Applications directory and extract the metadata for each download. The aggregated metadata is exported to a csv. Lots of interesting stuff in there. Looks like I currently have 60...
September 3, 2010 | In: General Discussions
For the past couple of weeks, we've been putting some work into a new integration platform and a series of user persona-specific applications built on top of it. Currently, the integration platform is largely plumbing with the eventual goal of supporting...
June 26, 2010 | In: General Discussions
Was just glancing through the New and notable list of iPad applications and noticed GoMealsHD. Powered by the CalorieKing nutritional database, GoMeals allows you to search thousands of foods and dishes from popular restaurants, grocery stores and the...
June 20, 2010 | In: General Discussions, Open Source Software
Yesterday I took on the task of migrating a remote SVN repository to GIT. I recently bought a small cloud server from Rackspace with the goal of amalgamating various services I had hosted previously at Webfaction. The SVN –> GIT migration...
May 31, 2010 | In: General Discussions, Java, Open Source Software
A couple weeks back I set out to upgrade the version of Hibernate Search that one of our applications was using. The boys at JBoss had recently released Hibernate Search 3.2.0 and it looked pretty sweet. The possibility of performance improvements...
May 16, 2010 | In: General Discussions
A couple weeks back I made a trip down to Seattle in search of an iPad. BestBuy was a complete bust, they get ~10 units in per week and quickly sell out. If you really want one, you're going to have to visit an actual Apple store. That same weekend, I...
April 28, 2010 | In: General Discussions
We’re looking for a few talented developers to join our ranks. GenoLogics is a leading provider of lab informatics solutions for translational research, with solutions crossing the clinical and discovery domains. GenoLogics focuses on providing...
March 4, 2010 | In: General Discussions
I was fortunate enough to recently have my 3 year old MacBook Pro retired from service. A new and much faster one has appeared in its place. Old Laptop (2.333ghz, 5400rpm HD, 3GB DDR2) mvn clean install - 8-10 minutes depending on system load mvn clean...
March 1, 2010 | In: General Discussions
The act of writing good software is as much process execution as it is source code generation. Follow the right process and it can be a tremendously enjoyable experience. There's nothing I like better than to come home from a day in the office and marvel...