I am excited to be writing about a project I have been working on for the last four or five months. SwitchCoder is an application which allows you to build voice and SMS applications and deploy them, all from a browser. Application developers will have no longer have to maintain their own infrastructure or deal […]
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The Romance of Manufacturing
Having watched the last couple of debates (vice presidential and last night’s presidential), I am struggling to understand the obsession with bringing manufacturing jobs to the United States. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t get why we want these jobs. Having seen the pictures from inside of Foxconn, where iPhones and iPads are made, […]
Trusted Referrers – How To Fix The Reference Process
I was working on a project recently and needed to find out if the prospective vendor could actually do the work. So, I did what everyone else does in a similar position, and asked for references. The references, as you would expect, were glowing. We were going to be working with a great company. I […]
Why Marc Benioff Is One Of The Best
I watched an interview with Salesforce.com’s CEO Marc Benioff from the Techcrunch Disrupt Conference which happened last week in San Francisco. You can watch the entire interview here, and it’s worth thirty minutes of your time. I have always been a big fan of Salesforce.com. They were one of the very first companies to make […]
Signing NDAs
If one is around technology for any length of time, there is at some point going to come a request to sign an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement). An NDA in it’s most basic form simply means that you agree not to talk about the originating party’s ideas with anyone else or use those ideas yourself. It […]
For Free
A few weeks back I was having breakfast with Bruce Benedict, the proprietor and creator of Cardiphonia. Cardiphonia is a music label in the 21st century sense of the word, focused on helping upcoming artists in a niche space (sacred music). Bruce is one of those guys that you can’t help but love watching. He […]
Would You Like Some Bland With That?
I spent the week between Christmas and New Years in Tulsa, OK visiting family. On one of the days my wife and I decided to go get some coffee (or tea in my case). There were, of course, sixteen Starbucks within a five mile radius of where we were, but I wanted something different. We […]
Observations from a Rural Outpost
I am spending this week with family in upstate NY. My parents have lived in the same house for close to 45 years, and I love getting up here a couple of times a year to enjoy a change of scenery. A few things have jumped out at me since we have been up here. […]
The Technology Adoption Debt
I am guilty many times of rushing to judgement about how widespread technology adoption is among the general population in the US. I often presume that because I know about and use great technology every day that most everyone else is doing the same. It’s simply not true. There is a significant portion of the […]
The Privilege of Protest
I witnessed two events in the past week that could not have presented a more different view the world. The first was a fundraiser last Saturday night for an organization based here in Raleigh called Jobs for Life. Jobs for Life equips people for the workforce who have had little or no experience in getting […]