Stories
Could have asked for better timing between a link from Audrey and email from Visually. Such an important message I want to share in 2013. I will be making this a theme.
I received an email from Stack Overflow today asking me to fill out a new Careers 2.0 profile today. After finishing I have to say, they provide a very slick process for populating my profile...
Every couple of years I migrate my platform a little bit forward (hopefully) and begin weaving in new tools into my personal and business world. I recently spent some time looking back, and trying to map out the last 24 years of my professional technology career--in hopes of helping me understand how far I've come.
1988 - When I firs...
I’m working through the 2012 year, trying to quantify what I did over the year. It’s not as easy as it sounds. One area I’m having trouble quantifying is how much programming I do.
Programming is an essential variable in my happiness algorithm. If I’m not programming...
I just finished reading Asher Wolf’s Dear Hacker Community – We Need To Talk. I have so many emotions bubbling up, it’s hard to know how to organize them. I envy her for being able to express them so eloquently and in detail.
First, bef...
The end of the year is a great time for reflection. 2012 was kind of a blur, and with the amount of API Evangelism I did, I had little time to reflect on where I went and the places I enjoyed.
I wanted a quick way to create some kind of visualization, showing where i had been over the year. Foursquare was the first placed I looked and using Singly I was quickly able to pull my year of checkins.
I'm spending a lot of time asking questions about 2012 for various year-end stories. Some questions I can just go to my database and pull numbers, others I can use various APIs to ask questions of common tools I u...
I stopped using my Instagram account this week. I migrated all of my photos to Flickr, and removed Instagram from my iPhone.
I’m doing this in protest of the ...
As a startup, you are bound to reach a point in your evolution where money will blind you, whether its during roadmap planning or communicating with your customers--eventually you will be blinded by your investors.
Once you’ve taken on enough investment, or the load of the parent company who acquired, you will st...
I'm closely following the whole Instagram terms of service discussion. I will be watching closely and if Instagram follows through with implementing these TOS changes, I will migrate my photos and close my account.
I just got back from France this week where I was attending API Days in Paris. I thoroughly enjoyed many deep discussions with folks about big data and APIs, coming home with what I feel is a pretty clear difference between the US approach and the potential EU approach to APIs and b...
The organizers of APIs Days asked me at the last moment if I'd like to do a third talk at the European API event, due to last minute cancellations. Of course, I jumped on the opportunity to generate to material and work through it in fr...
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I read a great post recently about how a company called Teenage Engineering has started providing 3D CAD files that allow their customers to 3D prin...
Lots of big news coming out of Apple's World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC2011) in San Francisco today.
We saw major enhancements coming down the pipes with IOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion. What really stood out was their new
I’m continuing my research into how various cities operate their developer meetups, with a focus on mobile developer gatherings. Today I’m focusing on New York City, a town that is fast becoming a contender with Silicon Valley for developer talent.
I went through the meetups ...
I’m spending time profiling eight of the top developer markets in the country. My goal is to profile the building blocks of cities that have healthy developer communities, and from the research write several blog posts, and a white paper that will help other underserved communities unders...
While contracting with CityGrid this spring, one event I sponsored and participated in was the TechCrunch NYC Hackathon. The hackathon was definitely one of the larger hackathons I've attended, filling an entire warehouse.
I gave a workshop on how to use the CityGrid hackathon, then after the hac...
Hackathons are exploding in popularity and open API publishers are quickly realizing the power they have to attract developers. For API publishers, hackathons represent one of the most powerful means for growing an API’s profile and engaging directly with talented developers. If you want learn more about hackathons,
I was reading a report commissioned by Google and conducted by Ipsos MediaCT in partnership with the Mobile Marketing Association and the Interactive Advertising Bureau, called Our Mobile Planet.
You can find the report at 