SXSW 2008 is almost here!
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flash Player, Flex Development, Music, sxsw 2008, web 2.0, web integration | 6 Comments »This will be my 3rd year in a row for the music portion of the legendary South By Southwest conference. Once again, it starts in Dallas for me where Niki drives us down to Austin for the event. ...
Installing Erlang on OS X
Saturday, February 16th, 2008 Posted in Erlang, OS X, web integration | No Comments »I have been really interested in Erlang since I first read about it on Ted's blog post about "Why Erlang?". I picked up Joe Armstrong's book "Programming Erlang" and during the install I about pulled out all my hair. ...
Where are our mid-level developers?
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Flex Development, General Media / Stuff, Rich Internet Applications, Self Reference, web 2.0, web integration | 2 Comments »Over the last few years a question has been lingering within the tech community: where are all the mid-level developers? Not only is this question being asked in the tech world, but it is now beginning to be asked ...
Aggressive “Direct” Recruiting
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in ActionScript, Flex Development, General Media / Stuff, JavaScript, Rich Internet Applications, Self Reference, web 2.0, web integration | 1 Comment »It just happened again... I am sitting at my desk and the phone rings from an "unknown" number. I answer the call and it is a Michael for Coit Staffing informing that he has been looking for me. ...
gMail + Thunderbird: How long will I last?
Friday, November 2nd, 2007 Posted in Rich Internet Applications, web integration | No Comments »About a year ago I jumped feet first into the world of gMail and ported over all my Fake Science accounts so that they forwarded to gMail. Once I had the ability to send emails from gMail that looked ...