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Why Consumers Buy The Mobile Devices They Buy
Several years ago I was hanging out in the INETA TechEd lounge the entire week with different friends. We had a great time, but I was the only person there without a cool phone. I honestly do not recall the first generation iPhone being available at the Read More...
To Say Mobile is to Set A False Limit on Your Reach
I am really excited to be Tellago's Chief Mobility Officer . I have an official title that is chic and I get to play with a lot of toys everyday. No you cannot have my job! But there is something I think is misleading in that title and that is the term Read More...
How to Fix Microsoft: Get The Swagger Back
Recently I have started listening too Windows Weekly , hosted by Leo LePorte and Paul Thurrott. Right before Microsoft’s TechEd Paul posed a question on his Supersite for Windows on how to ‘Fix Microsoft’ . He does not want product features, but more Read More...
I Think I Know What Web 3.0 Is, Its Not Semantic
Last night I was watching Steve Balmer’s CES Keynote along with 1000’s of other geeks around the world. As I watched demonstrations of XBox 360 with Kinect , Windows Phone , Tablets and new processor technologies I could not help but think how much things Read More...
Here I Go Making Predictions Again
I think it has been a few years since I publically made some predictions on what I think will transpire as it relates to my world. So much has been passing before my eyes the past few years and I honestly felt very overloaded with what would stick and Read More...
Why I Love Working for Tellago
Last November I made the decision to join Tellago full-time. I was recruited by my friend Don Demsak for about 4-5 months before joining. It meant doing a lot of travel and essentially relocating to a South Florida the majority of time, a place I had Read More...
Still Stuck With IE 6? Consider Just Jumping to IE 9
Odds are if you are viewing this Blog with IE 6 you are in a large, slow moving corporation. I really doubt normal folks reading this Blog would still have IE 6 installed on their home or small business computers. If so, Bad Geek, Bad Geek, now go think Read More...
New Decade, New Challenges and Opportunities
Happy New Decade!!! Its hard to believe I have reached my 4th decade here on Earth, but I have. The last decade was full of challenges, good times and many bad. New Years morning I received confirmation I have received the ASP.NET MVP award for the third Read More...
Making Blenders for the Blind is Like Making Software for Normal People
Brad Abrams recently posted tips he has for someone interviewing for a Program Manager position at Microsoft . In his post he references different questions and situations he likes to put candidates through. One section titled Design and Bahh Questions Read More...
Pragmatic vs Theoretical Development Practices
I tell a story about my very first assigned development task to my development friends because it really sets the development practice tone of reality to me. The first day I was on my first job after graduate school I was given a simple task of creating Read More...
Where Does Silverlight and WPF Belong?
Last month I pondered the question of Where Does ASP.NET Belong? This month I want to express my opinion on where Silverlight belongs as well as WPF. I have been pondering this a lot over the past year, almost waiting for something to just hit me with Read More...
I Still Say Use Stored Procedures!
First, wow, I never ever dreamed pushing that publish button on something I wrote in about 20 minutes would get so much play! Thanks for all who shared their opinions, I enjoyed them all. Please feel free to share more, I think this is such a good discussion Read More...
The Secret of Efficient Programming
I read Dilbert every day, it adds levity to my technical life. Besides I cannot watch Office Space every day can I? Today's Dilbert was funny, but makes a very important point about why software development is so much different than just about any other Read More...
ICANN and Network Solutions are Sued over Front-Running Practices
In the past 24 hours both Mashable and TechCrunch have reported that a lawsuit has been filed against both ICANN and Network Solutions for Front-Running. I reported the unethical practice back in January, where any available domain a whois lookup was Read More...
Please Do Not Ever Do Business with Network Solutions
A long while back I wrote an article on Domain Registration . I have been registering domains for about a decade at this point. I manage domain registration for many of my clients and I use OPENSRS as my registrar. I have never really like Network Solutions Read More...
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