Archive | November, 2009

Google AppEngine App issues on Snow Leopard

I always seem to trip up on these language version issues. I spent way too much time on this so, as usual with such things, I thought it was worth a post. Early this week I upgraded my work machine (MacBook Pro) and the new machine came packed with Snow Leopard. Today, I had some [...]

Continue Reading

Dispelling the FUD! Silverlight is NOT on the iPhone!

This is crazy, do any of these bloggers actually read the announcements? My Twitter/RSS-feed streams are clogged with Silverlight on the IPhone items like here, here and here, and thats just not the case. So lets please get the facts right: Silverlight IS NOT on the iPhone. Or rather the browser plugin called Silverlight isnt. [...]

Continue Reading

Web applications vs. “real” applications and a thoughts on moving off the webpage browser for apps idea

There is an interesting discussion brewing over a couple of blogs. Part of it began when PPK wrote a rather strongly worded post titled “Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid” where he accused some of the developers jumping into the whole native app for the iphone of not really considering the advantages of [...]

Continue Reading

So long Engineering, hello User Experience

Today was my last day as Lead Software Engineer at Comcast Interactive Media (CIM), and tomorrow I start my new role as a User Experience Technologist / Principal Application Developer for CIM. Its been an awesome 5 years in engineering but its time to move to newer domains. The decision to move to UX was [...]

Continue Reading

My FlashCampPhilly presentation: Some interesting libraries to consider for your next app

Last Saturday, Philadelphia was host to its first ever FlashCamp event. The event brought together some of the biggest names in Flash and Flex in the neighborhood and beyond (special kudos to Rob Hall for organizing the event from vision to a lot of very hard work). I did have one session at the event [...]

Continue Reading