I was reading a blog I follow and I came across this great article about the invisible helmet. As an avid bike rider I had to check this out. After watching the video and reading the article I was still intrigued. The Invisible Bicycle Helmet | Fredrik Gertten from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo. You can read the article here. http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/the-future-is-herethe-invisible-bicycle-helmet-176039 …
I launched a new theme on the site 2 weeks ago. I Mentioned at the time a new technology. I have switched to a responsive design theme. If you are not familiar with responsive design it is: (wiki pedia) Responsive Web Design (RWD) essentially indicates that a web site is crafted to use Cascading Style Sheets 3 media queries, an extension …
I’m a fan of the TV show Suits USA Network. SUITS. It has a great concept of a lawyer show. It is not like the Ally McBeal show of the past. It has drama, some acting, and a little suspense. One interesting part that I have found interesting is the music in the show. I’ve found a few spotify playlists for …
I’ve been pushing to get a lot done outside of work lately. Some deadlines on applications and other technologies. In doing so, I decided it was time to re-do the theme on my blog. I’ll push out more details regarding the theme once it’s done. I figured the only way to make sure that I completed this project was to just …
I commute to work frequently on my Raleigh i8. A while back someone asked me what kind of lock do I use. I did not have a response, I had not been using one. Last year when I started commuting I would ride to offsite meetings and other events and park my old mountain bike anywhere. I did not have a …
I was reading an article on gigaom regarding how bandwidth is getting cheaper. http://gigaom.com/2012/08/02/guess-what-bandwidth-is-getting-cheaper/ The article was not about our home or business bandwidth but rather IP transit costs. The cost to move data from one location to another (overseas). The reference the value from a business perspective, if that business buys a lot of bandwidth. Companies like netflix, google, etc… …
I got this post in an email from a co-worker. I thought the insight into Yahoo was interesting. Some of the comments were great and really hit home. http://sriramk.com/unsolicitedyahoo.html Every company has issues, and some of these are pretty fun to read about.
I recently went to a new ice cream shop in our town. Having 4 kids often requires you to visit fun places like this. It also calls for a fairly expensive ice cream visit. The new place was great, the owner was nice and even gave us some free samples. The one thing that caught me was the use of an …
This is a great article on what works when developing a mobile app. The team from Pocket Lists http://www.1312.ru/Pocket-Lists-sales-13500-in-first-3-months/ This is a great story of how to make money on an app. (see this clip of the article) Category: Productivity (to-do & checklist app) Price: initially priced at $4.99, then settled to $1.99 Developed in: 10 months from scratch to version …
I’ve been using Read It Later for a while. It is / was a great tool to save articles found on twitter / flipboard / web.. and Read them later. Prior to using that tool I would just email myself the article if I found something interesting or wanted to spend some more time looking at the article. The use of …
A Mashable article states a list of social savvy cities. They list many large cities. grand Rapids is not one of them. However, they do mention that Grand Rapids has a high percentage of small businesses with face book pages (29%) Read the article here – http://mashable.com/2012/05/17/social-savvy-cities/
Dell has just launched a developer focused laptop. The cool thing about this version is that it runs Ubuntu (linux) and is on a 13 inch laptop. (check out the hardware here) The article that I found regarding this was focused on the Sputnik project. I think this is a great start. I’m a fan of small portable computing and the …
When did listening become illegal? After reading this article I got to thinking more about how the concept of wireless is flawed. http://gigaom.com/2012/05/01/google-wi-fi-snooping-and-the-ever-shifting-creepy-line/ As a technology it uses public airwaves to send data. This concept works great when the data is suppose to be freely available. The success of this can be seen with radio and TV. People are able to …
I have been evaluating my broadband connection at home lately. I currently have a cable modem from Comcast. I’ve been a cable modem user since @home. There was short period where I had a $14 DSL line from yahoo but that did not last long. We have recently had service issues in our area based on signal strength. In doing some …
I recently updated my laptop configuration and did some spring cleaning. It was time to re-install the tools and get the machine ready. I do most of my development in Virtual Machines (virtualbox) but I typically have Visual Studio on my local machine for ease of use. I realized that there are a lot of coponents you have to instll to …