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2019 117

December 2019

  1. I’m on episode 123 of “The 6 Figure Developer” — “iOS Apprentice & Accordions w/ Joey deVilla”!
  2. Fake ad, but true statement
  3. Weaponizing social media with strobing images, Neuromancer, and what we can do
  4. Table-driven programming and the weather forecasting stone
  5. The 2020 presidential campaigns aren’t ready to fight disinformation. It might be up to us.
  6. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, December 16, 2019 through New Year’s Eve)
  7. Scenes from the Computer Coach / High Tech Connect holiday party
  8. I had the same reaction
  9. Worth watching: Videos on programming paradigms and object-oriented vs. functional programming
  10. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, December 9, 2019)
  11. Making Tampa Bay a better tech zone, part 1: We’re in the top 20, which is a good start!
  12. The five phases of software development
  13. Now that I’m getting paid to be a developer again…
  14. The new gig
  15. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, December 2, 2019)

November 2019

  1. ArnoldC: A programming language based on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s movie one-liners
  2. Don’t miss out on RayWenderlich.com’s Black Friday sale!
  3. The “Your first iOS and SwiftUI app” video course — based on my chapters from the “iOS Apprentice” book!
  4. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, November 25, 2019)
  5. If you like my “Tampa Bay tech events” posts, you’ll LOVE the mailing list!
  6. I get asked this question two or three times a week
  7. Coming soon…
  8. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, November 18, 2019)
  9. Tweet of the day: “Me reviewing pull requests”
  10. Tomorrow at the Tampa Bay UX Meetup: Workshop: Designing for the Future of TBUX!
  11. Tomorrow at the Tampa Bay Full Stack Meetup: Intro to mobile development with Flutter!
  12. The UK Home Office’s posters on designing for accessibility
  13. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, November 11, 2019)
  14. My “Kotlin Cheat Sheet and Quick Reference” at RayWenderlich.com has been updated!
  15. Tech comic of the day: “Cutting out the middleman” by Jeremy Nguyen
  16. Beginning ARKit
  17. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, November 4, 2019)
  18. Chris Hallbeck’s motivational trick

October 2019

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, October 28, 2019)
  2. Tampa Community Connect takes place this Saturday, October 26th!
  3. On vacation — back on Monday, October 28th
  4. Tential Tuesday happens tonight!
  5. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, October 7, 2019)

September 2019

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, September 30, 2019)
  2. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, September 23, 2019)
  3. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, September 16, 2019)
  4. Then and now
  5. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, September 9, 2019)
  6. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, September 2, 2019)

August 2019

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, August 26, 2019)
  2. Robert C. “Uncle Bob” Martin: “The Future of Programming”, 2019 edition
  3. How would you answer Marc Stiegler’s late-’90s final exam about a theoretical internet in 2019?
  4. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, August 19, 2019)
  5. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, August 12, 2019)
  6. Yet another UX lesson from “Star Trek”
  7. Password reset
  8. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, August 5, 2019)
  9. Hyve’s videos from Startup Bus 2019
  10. Joey deVilla’s augmented reality portfolio

July 2019

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, July 29, 2019)
  2. Don’t ask us, ask these security experts: the security principles behind Hyve
  3. Our Startup Bus 2019 competition entry: Hyve!
  4. Notes for Startup Bus 2019: The lesson from my last hackathon, should non-coders join, and how to brainstorm
  5. If debugging with print statements is good enough for Linus, Guido, and “Uncle Bob”, it’s good enough for me
  6. Notes for Startup Bus 2019: Con’s video series on Startup Bus 2013
  7. Notes for Startup Bus 2019: Coming up with your Startup Bus idea
  8. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, July 22, 2019)
  9. Notes for Startup Bus 2019: The StartUp podcast’s “Startup Bus” episodes
  10. Notes for Startup Bus 2019: Hackathon tips
  11. Notes for Startup Bus 2019: Hugh “gapingvoid” MacLeod on how to be creative
  12. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, July 15, 2019)
  13. The most common phrases in software development job ads, explained
  14. I’m on the Startup Bus!
  15. An amazing first meetup: “Coders, Creatives, and Craft Beer” at 7venth Sun Brewery, Tuesday, July 9, 2019
  16. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, July 8, 2019)

June 2019

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, July 1, 2019)
  2. Demo Day at Suncoast Developers Guild – Friday, July 19
  3. Quick notes on macOS “Catalina”
  4. Raspberry Pi 4: Powerful as a 2009 laptop or a 2014 smartphone — all for $35!
  5. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, June 24, 2019)
  6. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, June 17, 2019)
  7. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, June 10, 2019)
  8. How to “make the rounds” at Ignite Tampa Bay
  9. Ignite Tampa Bay 2019: Thursday June 6th at the Palladium in St. Pete
  10. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Tuesday, June 3, 2019)

May 2019

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Tuesday, May 28, 2019)
  2. Amazon’s approach to motivating warehouse employees would also be a great premise for a “Black Mirror” episode
  3. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, May 20, 2019)
  4. The supermarket receipt, redesigned by Susie Lu, Senior Data Visualization Engineer at Netflix
  5. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, May 13, 2019)
  6. This Wednesday: “Modern Features for Javascript: Foundations of ECMAScript (ES6+)” at Suncoast Developers Guild

April 2019

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, April 22, 2019)
  2. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, April 15, 2019)
  3. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, April 8, 2019)
  4. Software Sith Lord’s take on the #npmlayoffs
  5. Learn how to build 5 iOS augmented reality projects for FREE this week!

March 2019

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, April 1, 2019)
  2. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, March 25, 2019)
  3. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, March 18, 2019)
  4. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, March 11, 2019)
  5. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, March 4, 2019)

February 2019

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, February 25, 2019)
  2. Explaining the map, filter, and reduce functions with emoji, redux
  3. Yesterday’s “Conference call bingo” whiteboard, rendered as an old-school bingo card
  4. Global Nerdy link backlog (February 18, 2019 edition)
  5. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, February 18, 2019)
  6. Dumb and dumber
  7. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, February 11, 2019)
  8. Scenes from last night’s Tampa Bay PHP meetup
  9. Global Nerdy link backlog (February 5, 2019 edition)
  10. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, February 4, 2019)
  11. You want scary? I’ll give you *scary*.

January 2019

  1. What do the Sex Pistols’ 1976 gig and Startup Week Tampa Bay 2019 have in common?
  2. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, January 28, 2019)
  3. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, January 21, 2019)
  4. Yeah, that’s about right.
  5. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, January 14, 2019)
  6. Software Sith Lord says…
  7. Software Sith Lord says…
  8. A Sith Lord at Sourcetoad [updated]
  9. Tonight: Chatting live with the Thunder Nerds about DevFest Florida!
  10. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, January 7, 2019)

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December 2018

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, December 31, 2018)
  2. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, December 24, 2018)
  3. Playing agile accordion for Alistair Cockburn’s birthday at Agile Social Tampa Bay
  4. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, December 17, 2018)
  5. Symlinks, amirite?
  6. Holiday gift ideas for the aspiring Android developer
  7. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, December 10, 2018)
  8. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, December 3, 2018)

November 2018

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, November 26, 2018)
  2. A ducky way to explain the generally preferred way to sort things: Quacksort!
  3. I try my best NOT to be THIS type of project manager
  4. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, November 19, 2018)
  5. How to win Startup Weekend Tampa Bay 2018
  6. Tampa Bay’s tech “scenius” depends on us
  7. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, November 12, 2018)
  8. Data science reading list for Wednesday, November 7, 2018: The job — working together to build trust, the kinds of data scientist, why mothers should do data science, and why not to be a generalist
  9. A new mantra worth considering
  10. Many businesses still follow Jurassic Park’s model for IT spending…
  11. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, November 5, 2018)
  12. Data science reading list for Friday, November 2, 2018: Education, aspirations, and job descriptions
  13. Data science reading list for Thursday, November 1, 2018: Free data science books for beginners with limited budgets

October 2018

  1. Jupyter rising
  2. Data science reading list for Wednesday, October 31, 2018: Actually, it’s about ethics in data science
  3. Data science reading list for Tuesday, October 30, 2018: The sexiest job, most in-demand data skills, 4 ways the data scientist has evolved, and the null hypothesis and p-values
  4. AI hasn’t brought about the Singularity, but it’s given us the next best thing
  5. Tech t-shirt of the day
  6. Data science reading list for Monday, October 29, 2018: The worst data science article, 5 basic stats concepts you need to know, Bayes, democratization, and web scraping
  7. Funny because it’s true
  8. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, October 29, 2018)
  9. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, October 22, 2018)
  10. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, October 15, 2018)
  11. When you have team members who can’t see things from the customer’s point of view
  12. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, October 8, 2018)
  13. My ARKit tutorial at RwDevCon 2018
  14. Programming, summarized in two anime stills

September 2018

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, October 1, 2018)
  2. A lot of documentation written by developers is like this
  3. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, September 24, 2018)
  4. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, September 17, 2018)
  5. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, September 10, 2018)
  6. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, September 3, 2018)

August 2018

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, August 27, 2018)
  2. I will teach you data science, part 2: Similar people and Manhattan distance
  3. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, August 13, 2018)
  4. I will teach you data science, part 1: The best free book on data mining out there
  5. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, August 6, 2018)

July 2018

  1. 3 coding things for July 30, 2018: 50% off JetBrains IDEs, TypeScript 3.0, Ben McCormick’s JavaScript articles
  2. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, July 30, 2018)
  3. The “What if?” questions that drove the design of different programming languages
  4. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, July 23, 2018)
  5. How programming is actually done
  6. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, July 16, 2018)
  7. Luke Skywalker’s help desk
  8. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, July 9, 2018)

June 2018

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, July 2, 2018)
  2. Notes from Lakshmi Shenoy’s presentation on the upcoming Tampa Bay Innovation Hub
  3. Tampa iOS Meetup returns September 25, 2018
  4. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, June 25, 2018)
  5. This diagram reminds me of how many programmers comment their code
  6. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, June 18, 2018)
  7. Anitra Pavka and Joey deVilla’s “Building Augmented Reality Experiences” presentation @ Tampa Bay UX / Front-End Design meetup, 2018-06-14
  8. Anitra and I are presenting “Building augmented reality experiences” at Tampa Bay UX / Tampa Bay Front End Meetup
  9. How to program: How does DidThanosKill.me work?
  10. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, June 11, 2018)
  11. In light of GitHub, a brief history of Microsoft’s bigger/better-known acquisitions
  12. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, June 4, 2018)

May 2018

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, May 28, 2018)
  2. My mind is like my web browser…
  3. It prefers to be called “The Growth Team”, thank you very much.
  4. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, May 21, 2018)
  5. Data science trick #1: Don’t roll your own basic statistics functions — use these libraries instead!
  6. Saving data in iOS apps / How do you actually write an app?, part 2
  7. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, May 14, 2018)
  8. My reaction to Facebook’s plans to launch their own cryptocurrency
  9. Get my “Getting Started with ARKit” tutorial video and code from RWDevCon 2018 for FREE!
  10. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, May 7, 2018)
  11. From the April 24, 2018 Tampa iOS Meetup: Saving data in iOS apps / How do you actually write an app?
  12. Two Facebook stories, one picture of Silicon Valley in a nutshell

April 2018

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, April 30, 2018)
  2. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, April 23, 2018)
  3. Front end vs. back end
  4. Algorithms, IKEA-style
  5. New books for iOS and Android programmers from RayWenderlich.com!
  6. How to “make the rounds” at RWDevCon

March 2018

  1. The Lord and JavaScript equate in mysterious ways
  2. What I’m up to this week (and next)
  3. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, March 5, 2018)

February 2018

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Startup Week / Week of Monday, February 26, 2018)
  2. We’re off to see the Wizard of Woz!
  3. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Startup Week / Week of Monday, February 19, 2018)
  4. Notes from Laurie Voss’ “Stuff everybody knows (except you)” talk from Tampa Bay Startup Week, part 2
  5. Notes from Laurie Voss’ “Stuff everybody knows (except you)” talk from Tampa Bay Startup Week, part 1
  6. What the Sex Pistols’ 1976 gig and Tampa Bay Startup Week 2018 have in common
  7. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Startup Week / Week of Monday, February 12, 2018)
  8. My picks for Tampa Bay Startup Week 2018
  9. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, February 5, 2018)

January 2018

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, January 29, 2018)
  2. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, January 22, 2018)
  3. RWDevCon is 78 days away!
  4. Tonight at the Tampa Bay UX Group meetup: The Hawaii missile attack false alarm and the future of user experience
  5. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, January 15, 2018)
  6. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, January 8, 2018)
  7. The most satisfying explanation of blockchains that I’ve ever seen
  8. “How low will people stoop for YouTube views? The answer will shock you”, and further calls for techies to be better people in 2018
  9. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Tuesday, January 2, 2018)

2017 150

December 2017

  1. Hey, techies: Let’s resolve to be better people in 2018
  2. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Tuesday, December 26, 2017)
  3. Security wisdom of the day
  4. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, December 18, 2017)
  5. Toronto’s lessons and a new year’s resolution for Tampa Bay’s tech scene: “Create more value than you capture”
  6. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, December 11, 2017)
  7. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, December 4, 2017)

November 2017

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, November 27, 2017)
  2. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, November 20, 2017)
  3. Looking for a great conference on iOS development? Check out RWDevCon!
  4. My DevFest Florida interview with Brian and Fred from Thunder Nerds
  5. Why “?:” is called Kotlin’s “Elvis operator”
  6. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, November 13, 2017)
  7. How to “make the rounds” at DevFest Florida
  8. DevFest Florida’s important but unrecognized achievement
  9. DevFest Florida will be a treasure trove of talks for Android developers!
  10. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, November 6, 2017)

October 2017

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, October 30, 2017)
  2. I’m presenting “Intro to Augmented Reality with ARKit” at Tampa Code Camp!
  3. Programming games in (mostly) plain English: Intro to Twine
  4. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, October 23, 2017)
  5. Intro to ARKit programming, part 1: Let’s fill the room with shapes!
  6. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, October 15, 2017)
  7. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, October 9, 2017)
  8. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, October 2, 2017)

September 2017

  1. 3 things that were unexpected: Ikea buys TaskRabbit, Bill Gates ditches his Windows Phone, Microsoft joins OSI
  2. Build an augmented reality painting app at tomorrow’s Tampa iOS Meetup!
  3. The New York Times left lots of empty space in James Damore’s glamor shots. Use them well.
  4. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, September 25, 2017)
  5. 3 things about data science and Python: The best data science course on the internet, Donald Trump sentiment analysis, and Python podcasts
  6. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, September 18, 2017)
  7. When my Android phone (and its FM radio) proved clearly more useful than my iPhone
  8. Talking about Sourcetoad at the “Hack Hospitality” hackathon in St. Petersburg, August 26, 2017
  9. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Tuesday, September 5, 2017)

August 2017

  1. What happened at Women Who Code Tampa’s “All About Agile” meetup
  2. Tonight: “All About Agile” at the Women Who Code Tampa / Tampa Bay Agile Meetup
  3. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, August 28, 2017)
  4. Help Tampa Bay’s hospitality industry, build applications and opportunities, compete for a $3000 prize, and get 7 catered meals for $20 at “Hack Hospitality” this weekend!
  5. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, August 21, 2017)
  6. You don’t want to miss out on DevFest Florida, taking place Saturday, November 11th!
  7. I’m presenting the ARKit workshop at RWDevCon 2018!
  8. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, August 14, 2017)
  9. One pragmatic lesson you should take from the (former) Google “manifestbro”
  10. I met one of my programming heroes: Rebecca Wirfs-Brock!
  11. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, August 7, 2017)
  12. 25 years later, Neal Stephenson’s statement about male techies rings true, as evidenced by the “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber” doc
  13. Nominate notable Tampa Bay techies and tech companies for the 14th Annual Tampa Bay tech Awards!
  14. For Tampa Bay developers, it’s not just Taco Tuesday, it’s also Techie Tuesday!

July 2017

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, July 31, 2017)
  2. Sourcetoad is looking for a full-stack developer!
  3. Details about Tampa Bay’s upcoming “Hack Hospitality” hackathon (Aug 25 – 27)
  4. Next week’s Tampa iOS Meetup: Let’s build a checklist app (and meet at our new location, Sourcetoad)!
  5. Join us for drinks and learn about the upcoming “Hack Hospitality” hackathon at tonight’s info session!
  6. Toronto and Vancouver have the best tech talent for the buck; Tampa and 4 other Florida cities show promise
  7. Scenes from day one at Sourcetoad
  8. Day One at Sourcetoad
  9. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, July 24, 2017)
  10. What we’ll need to do when The Iron Yard closes its doors
  11. Fantastic news: Young women and minorities are taking AP computer science exams in record numbers!
  12. (Almost) everything I did between losing my last job and landing my new one
  13. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, July 17, 2017)
  14. Sarah Lacy at Startup Fest: “Silicon Valley’s Morality Crash”
  15. The job search is over: I’ve joined Sourcetoad!
  16. I’m now part of RayWenderlich.com’s Android team! Yes, the ANDROID team.
  17. Arrays and disappointment
  18. Symphony Software Foundation is looking for their first Director of Community
  19. Trump announces (and then backpedals on) a possible joint “cyber security unit” with Russia
  20. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, July 10, 2017)
  21. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, July 3, 2017)

June 2017

  1. It’s not the “Streisand Effect” anymore; it’s the “Zillow Effect” now!
  2. See all the presentations and get the code from Xamarin Dev Days 2017
  3. The code for Tampa iOS Meetup’s “Pomodoro Timer” exercise
  4. A time traveler from just 10 years ago would have no idea what this billboard is saying
  5. Technology itself is NOT the real disrupter/disruptor [with addendum]
  6. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, June 26, 2017)
  7. What a cool girl, a kiss-ass, and a crank have to say about Travis Kalanick’s resignation
  8. Build a productivity-boosting Pomodoro timer app at the next Tampa iOS Meetup
  9. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, June 19, 2017)
  10. What going back to an Objective-C project after working in Swift for a couple of years feels like
  11. In buying Whole Foods, Amazon just got 400+ upmarket showrooms and fulfillment centers
  12. I’ll be presenting at Xamarin Dev Days in Tampa: Saturday, June 17!
  13. One of the best things about the new Microsoft is its meeting room stickers
  14. A sneak preview of my experimental videogame résumé
  15. Never mind driverless CARS; Uber’s about to become a driverless COMPANY
  16. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, June 12, 2017)
  17. Tampa Tech: Android and Azure IoT at the Iron Yard
  18. How to catch today’s WWDC keynote
  19. Tales from my job search: I chose to be like Han Solo
  20. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, June 5, 2017)

May 2017

  1. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, May 29, 2017)
  2. A roundup of Swift/Kotlin comparisons
  3. Your first Android app in Kotlin: Oblique Strategies
  4. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, May 22, 2017)
  5. Harvest’s poignant tribute to Chris Cornell
  6. Texas Instruments’ famous last words
  7. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, May 15, 2017)
  8. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, May 8, 2017)
  9. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, May 1, 2017)

April 2017

  1. My notes from Suncoast iOS Meetup’s “The iOS Technical Interview: Get your dream job as an iOS developer”
  2. Antbleed: The infographic
  3. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, April 24, 2017)
  4. Start cashing in on the growing mobile games market at next week’s Tampa iOS Meetup!
  5. There are two ways to interpret this picture
  6. A new incentive to land a job, pronto!
  7. Tales from my job search: The job search so far
  8. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (Week of Monday, April 17, 2017)
  9. Tampa iOS Meetup: Learn how to make games with Sprite Kit and “Flappy Bird”! (Tuesday, April 25, 2017)
  10. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (week of Monday, April 10, 2017)
  11. A quick picture guide to upgrading the RAM on a Lenovo ThinkPad T430
  12. Wednesday, April 19: My presentation on Android and augmented reality
  13. Infographic: User reviews are the king
  14. Tales from my job search: You need a Tyrion Lannister on your side!
  15. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (week of Monday, April 3, 2017)

March 2017

  1. Tales from my job search: Let me be your voice
  2. Tales from my job search: My “Silicon Valley” moments with Pebble
  3. Tales from my job search: That time I had a children’s show about technology, complete with a puppet friend
  4. Tales from my job search: Taming Google with Python to prove that I can code
  5. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (week of Monday, March 27, 2017)
  6. My upcoming mobile dev presentations: Audio apps for iOS, and augmented reality apps for Android
  7. What you’ll find in the emails of employees engaged in corporate wrongdoing
  8. What if we applied the “People don’t quit their jobs, they quit their BOSSES” maxim to Uber’s president’s resignation?
  9. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (week of Monday, March 20, 2017)
  10. Tampa iOS Meetup’s next session: Build a guided meditation audio app (Tuesday, March 28, 2017)
  11. Learn iOS development with Craig Clayton’s course, book, and kaizen method
  12. Top tips for answering job interview questions
  13. What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene (week of Monday, March 13, 2017)
  14. My magnum opus job application
  15. My day at GM’s “Makers Hustle Harder” hackathon in Tampa
  16. While I’m looking for work, can I make a custom iOS game for you? For FREE?
  17. “Oblique Strategies” and Tampa iOS Meetup’s February 2017 session
  18. You’d be crazy to miss out on T-Mobile’s crazy (and limited-time) “free line” deal

February 2017

  1. Build your first app for GM’s Next Generation Infotainment (NGI) in-car platform
  2. Try out GM’s in-car infotainment API at the “Makers Hustle Harder” hackathon in Tampa this week!
  3. How software projects are managed
  4. The Uber story that everyone’s talking about right now, and some helpful background info
  5. Programming t-shirt of the day
  6. What the Sex Pistols’ 1976 gig and Tampa Bay Startup Week 2017 have in common
  7. Tampa Bay Startup Week 2017: February 13 – 17
  8. The simplest proof that information security isn’t a priority
  9. Tampa iOS Meetup on Tuesday, February 28: A “How to make a Magic 8-Ball” workshop
  10. The Tampa Bay tech scene, February 7 – 17, 2017
  11. BenQ’s console marketing game is on point, or if you like fake words like they do, “on fleek”
  12. Tampa iOS Meetup: The dreaded tip calculator, part 2
  13. Beginner-friendly git tutorials and guides
  14. A lot of programming is JUST. LIKE. THIS.
  15. Florida Man writes great book for people who want to learn iOS programming
  16. Tampa iOS Meetup: The dreaded tip calculator, part 1

January 2017

  1. Swift Algorithm Club’s call for a co-maintainer, and my answer
  2. My plans for 2017, part 2: Journey back to Java (or: What helped me land my new job)
  3. My plans for 2017, part 1: Work

2016 119

December 2016

  1. Apple extends the deadline for iOS app developers to make their apps connect to servers using only HTTPS
  2. Starting Tampa iOS Meetup’s “Year of Building Apps” with the dreaded tip calculator – January 31, 2017 [NEW DATE]
  3. How do different types of IT people fix a broken lightbulb?
  4. JavaScript30: Wes Bos’ fantastic FREE course on building great JavaScript apps without all those frameworks
  5. A great deal: SanDisk’s 200GB MicroSD card for $64!
  6. Smartrac makes Spyder’s ski jackets even smarter

November 2016

  1. SMARTRAC’s and CIT’s presentation on improving on the hospital wristband
  2. Tampa iOS Meetup will return in January!
  3. Scenes from Saturday’s Tampa Xamarin Dev Days event
  4. Xamarin Dev Days in Tampa Bay happens tomorrow – Saturday, November 19th!
  5. Microsoft’s Visual Studio for Mac will debut at their “Connect(); // 2016” conference this week
  6. When tech is so cool that it makes William Gibson accidentally slip into his native “street” talk

October 2016

  1. Interviewed on John Biggs’ Technotopia podcast!
  2. With Surface Dial and the Touch Bar, the battle for your non-dominant hand is heating up again
  3. No escape: The new MacBook Pro in the leaked photos apparently doesn’t have an “esc” key
  4. Last Friday’s IoT botnet attack and internet outages, explained for non-techies
  5. Swift 3 text field magic, part 3: Creating text fields that ban a specific set of characters
  6. Tools of my new trade (or: My sweet, sweet SMARTRAC-assigned gear)
  7. How to rescue a princess in 8 programming languages
  8. Day one of the new job: Developer evangelist at SMARTRAC!

September 2016

  1. End of an era: BlackBerry no longer making its phones
  2. Thank you, GSG!
  3. The two states of every programmer
  4. Social media reports of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 warnings on flights
  5. “Return TRUE to win”
  6. Swift 3 text field magic, part 2: Creating text fields that accept only a specific set of characters
  7. Tampa iOS Meetup, Tuesday, Sept. 27: Making sticker packs and apps for iOS 10’s Messages app!
  8. College Humor’s funny take on the iPhone 7: “Jony giveth, and Jony can taketh away.”
  9. Julia “@b0rk” Evans is programming’s zine queen!
  10. Swift 3 text field magic, part 1: Creating text fields with maximum lengths [Updated]
  11. Mobile reading list for September 2, 2016: Galaxy Note 7 recall, the next great platform, speech beats typing
  12. A list of iOS development podcasts, September 2016 edition

August 2016

  1. Yup
  2. How to work with dates and times in Swift 3, part 4: Adding Swift syntactic magic
  3. How to work with dates and times in Swift 3, part 3: Date arithmetic
  4. With Android Nougat, I FINALLY get the emoji I’ve been waiting for…
  5. How to work with dates and times in Swift 3, part 2: DateFormatter
  6. Mobility reading list for August 19, 2016: Pokémon Go, pros and cons of BYOD, and an 11-step guide to BYOD security
  7. The next Tampa iOS Meetup, and upcoming changes
  8. The very essence of becoming a better programmer (or any other maker or doer of things)
  9. How to work with dates and times in Swift 3, part 1: Dates, Calendars, and DateComponents
  10. The truth about typefaces
  11. Unboxing the CanaKit Raspberry Pi 3 Complete Starter Kit
  12. Ron Klein – the inventor of credit card validation via magnetic strip – speaks at Next Money TPA

July 2016

  1. Learn Core Location at the Suncoast iOS Meetup this Thursday, July 28th!
  2. The Pokémon Go developer roundup for July 23, 2016
  3. A walk through my “Just enough React to get you into trouble” presentation at Tampa Code Camp 2016
  4. You say “big design mistake”, I say “minimum viable product”
  5. Why you should attend Tampa Code Camp this Saturday
  6. It’s about time: I finally put an app in the App Store!
  7. I’ll be presenting at Tampa Code Camp: “Just enough React to get you into trouble”
  8. The 3rd-generation Moto G: The best bang for the Android developer’s buck

June 2016

  1. Demonstrating map, filter, and reduce in Swift using food emoji
  2. Map, filter, and reduce explained using emoji
  3. Amy Poehler on…coding?
  4. Next Tampa iOS Meetup on June 28th: What’s new in iOS 10 and Swift 3.0
  5. OpenHack Ybor tonight!
  6. Microsoft adds LinkedIn to its professional network
  7. How to watch or follow the WWDC 16 live keynote

May 2016

  1. Functional Ybor meetup: Functional World Tour (May 31, 2016)
  2. The inaugural ReactJS Tampa Bay meetup
  3. A whole lotta videos of Google I/O 2016 presentations
  4. A better way to program iOS text fields that have maximum lengths and accept or reject specific characters
  5. “Why can’t girls code?” hilariously sends up the sexist excuses for shooing girls and women away from tech
  6. iOS programming trick: How to use Xcode to set a text field’s maximum length, Visual Studio-style [Updated for Swift 3]
  7. This quick hack lets you use a standard pop filter with a Blue Yeti microphone
  8. How to build an iOS weather app in Swift, part 5: Putting it all together
  9. How to build an iOS weather app in Swift, part 4: Introducing geolocation
  10. Always keep an eye on your throughput
  11. How to build an iOS weather app in Swift, part 3: Giving the app a user interface
  12. “Uncanny Valley”, and other articles by Anna Wiener that you should read

April 2016

  1. Tampa iOS Meetup, Wednesday, May 4th: Adding geolocation to our weather app
  2. Want to test an iPhone/iPad game?
  3. Tonight at the Tampa Bay UX Meetup: Apple TV UX with Anitra Pavka!
  4. Developer news roundup: Android, iOS/Swift, and regrets and mistakes
  5. How to build an iOS weather app in Swift, part 2: A little more explanation, and turning OpenWeatherMap’s JSON into a Swift dictionary
  6. “The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl”: The comic book that tips its hat to computer science
  7. Mobile news roundup: Procurement fraud, Mobile ate the world, US mobile network performance, and mobile electronic flight bags for pilots
  8. Mobile developer news roundup: Making money (or not) with your apps
  9. How to write your own TSA security line randomizer app (and maybe make sweet government contract money)
  10. A quick test run with the new Xamarin Studio Community for Mac
  11. How to build an iOS weather app in Swift, part 1: A very bare-bones weather app
  12. Google adds April Fool feature to Gmail; forgets to ask “What could possibly go wrong?”, but provides lessons you can learn

March 2016

  1. Some “Game of Thrones” advice for those of you thinking about updating to iOS 9.3 (and a workaround for those who’ve updated)
  2. Every time I try a new SDK, my first attempt often looks like this…
  3. Today’s programming meme

February 2016

  1. 3rd-generation Moto G: On sale for $199 until March 7!
  2. This is virtual reality
  3. Mobile dev news roundup: Microsoft and Xamarin, IBM and Swift, Square and Kotlin
  4. Is it time for your organization to hang up on voice mail?
  5. Tampa iOS Meetup, Monday, March 7th: Build a simple weather app (and learn basic network programming along the way)
  6. Weekend resources for new Kotlin programmers
  7. Apple vs. FBI
  8. Crazy connections: Crypto, Corbató’s Law, cartoons, and Kotlin
  9. My current side projects: Game development in iOS and Android development with Kotlin
  10. The Facebook logo, explained
  11. Secure your Google account, get 2 GB of free additional Google Drive space!
  12. Tonight at Tampa Bay Startup Week: The Star Wars / Iron Yard Hour of Code!
  13. It’s Tampa Bay Startup Week 2016!
  14. Meet the asshole computer scientist who’s trying to keep the Canadian Netflix experience awful
  15. Twitter developer discovers what it’s like to use Twitter, experiences the developer-user gap
  16. How to split Doubles and Floats into whole numbers and fractions in Swift
  17. Something for fans of Star Wars who aren’t fans of Uber’s new logos
  18. Concatenating strings in Swift: Which way is faster?
  19. My proposed changes to Uber’s new logos
  20. Once again, IDC’s quarterly tablet tracker numbers, nicely formatted and graphed and Excel-ified for you!
  21. Writing iOS games with Swift and Sprite Kit, part 2: Responding to touches
  22. The story hidden inside Business Insider’s “More iPad Pros sold in 6 weeks than Surfaces sold in 3 months” story

January 2016

  1. T-shirt of the day
  2. Your guide to software developer job ads
  3. Privacy joke of the day
  4. Better to be roughly right than precisely wrong: Rounding numbers with Swift
  5. Writing iOS games with Swift and Sprite Kit, part 1: The power of actions
  6. I’ll bet I can gain access after two dozen tries
  7. A $30 – $50 off deal on the 4th-gen Apple TV from an apparently undead Radio Shack
  8. Snoop Dogg files the most gangsta bug report ever
  9. As PC sales hit an eight-year low, we’re living in the mobile era
  10. Tampa iOS Meetup, Tuesday, January 19th: Get started with making iOS games with Sprite Kit!
  11. Mobile developer news roundup #1: The phablet era, UX lessons from restaurants, Evernote’s 5% problem, Android and OpenJDK, and Solitaire’s secret history

2015 103

December 2015

  1. The five key phases of software development
  2. Episode IV: The Empire strikes out (on their pen test)
  3. We’ve all forgotten that it’s the 25th anniversary of the first web page!
  4. IDC says that 2015 will be the first year where smartphone growth is just in the single digits
  5. In honor of another nail in Flash’s coffin: My 2010 video, “HTML and RIAs: Friends with Benefits”

November 2015

  1. How to sabotage your workplace, WWII-style
  2. Black Friday / Cyber Monday specials for developers and aspiring developers
  3. This is how many companies use agile methodologies
  4. Sometimes when I make changes to the code…
  5. Monica Rogati’s “Techdel Test”: A Bechdel Test for tech conferences
  6. Businesses see the benefits of — and are hesitant to deploy — unified communications
  7. Share your Swift tips and tricks at this week’s Tampa iOS meetup: Wednesday, November 18!
  8. Dark mobile: The secrets no one tells you
  9. Over two-thirds of Americans have smartphones, nearly half have tablets, and ownership of other kinds of electronics is flat or shrinking

October 2015

  1. Should you pay $3000 to have your B2B business featured on some enterprise tech magazine’s “Top 10” list? (Hint: No.)
  2. Tampa iOS Meetup’s first meeting: Wednesday, October 28th at 7:00 p.m.!
  3. Hey test-driven developers: these mods let you take a page from Volkswagen’s book and pass all tests, no matter what!
  4. In case of fire…

September 2015

  1. Swift programming tip: How to execute a block of code after a specified delay
  2. BlackBerry CEO John Chen’s awkward demo of the BlackBerry Priv
  3. Catch our free “Dark Mobile” webinar tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. eastern!
  4. VarageSale is looking for a community manager based in Central Florida
  5. Thoughts on Apple, Microsoft, and tablets from an ex-Microsoftie
  6. Hey, developers! Want a free Apple TV developer kit?
  7. How to catch Apple’s September 2015 “Hey Siri” event, and what they might announce
  8. Tampa’s OpenHack Ybor meetup: Tonight at Brass Tap!
  9. Google’s new logo

August 2015

  1. Co-work at Tampa Bay Wave: Tuesday, September 1 from 10am – 6pm!
  2. My “How to constrain text fields” and “How to work with dates and times in Swift” articles, updated for Swift 2
  3. Xcode 7 beta 6 is now available!
  4. 40% off 128GB SanDisk microSD card – Was $100, now $60 until August 30th
  5. [Updated] “Dark Mobile” webinar with Enterprise Mobile: September 29th
  6. Alphabet explained
  7. Alphabet: Because “Umbrella Corporation” was already taken
  8. How GPS works, and how to make the most of it
  9. If the Titanic sank today…
  10. Big internet numbers

July 2015

  1. Yours Truly in “Canadian Business” magazine: How to talk to the IT department
  2. JetBlue’s best deal sells for just five bucks
  3. Every time you make a PowerPoint presentation…
  4. iOS 9’s lowercase keyboard (or: Business Insider is late to the party, even for them)
  5. For T-Mobile customers, Canada and Mexico are now the 51st and 52nd states
  6. Goodwill, impairment, and what’s to become of Windows Phone
  7. Geek mug of the day
  8. Mobile data at US airports and on major US airlines
  9. How to fix the common “no sound from AVPlayer/AVAudioPlayer” problem in iOS/Swift programming
  10. Organizational structures: a survival guide

June 2015

  1. Client brief vs. client budget
  2. Don’t troll on LinkedIn
  3. Taylor Swift to Apple: I knew you were trouble
  4. Mobile roundup: BYOD, FYOD, and SYOD
  5. How to make the rounds at the GIANT conference, part 4: When breaking and entering ISN’T a crime
  6. How to make the rounds at the GIANT conference, part 3: You are actually a host!
  7. How to make the rounds at the GIANT conference, part 2: What’s your one-line self-introduction?
  8. How to make the rounds at the GIANT conference, part 1: Bring your instrument!
  9. iOS vs. Android vs. Windows Phone, summarized in a single animated GIF
  10. A worthwhile read – Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual by John Sonmez
  11. Mobile roundup: State of the mobile market for Q1 2015, the most important feature in iOS 9, and smartphones take over a Sports Illustrated cover
  12. How to catch today’s WWDC keynote livestream and liveblogs
  13. You can never have too many smartphones
  14. My favorite HTTP status code joke of the moment
  15. Mobile roundup: A T-Mobile/Dish Network deal, the rise and fall of BlackBerry, and upcoming versions of Android and iOS

May 2015

  1. How to dismiss the iOS keyboard when the user taps the background in Swift
  2. Cramming, and how you might be eligible for a refund from Sprint and Verizon
  3. How to dismiss the iOS keyboard when the user taps the “Return” key in Swift
  4. Remote wipes and why you need a BYOD policy
  5. My Marc Andreessen regret and his profile in The New Yorker
  6. Some days, it feels like this…
  7. My “How to work with dates and times in Swift” articles (so far)
  8. Telecom history lessons: RIP Joseph Lechleider, and HP’s history of telecom in 3 minutes
  9. iOS 8’s built-in virtual keyboards on the iPhone: A visual catalog

April 2015

  1. How to program an iOS text field that takes only numeric input or specific characters with a maximum length [Updated]
  2. “Research journal, day 12: The locals have accepted me as one of their own.”
  3. Drunk Tulsa roommates break beer bottles, stab each other in “iPhone vs. Android” debate
  4. BusinessTown: Richard Scarry for the Fast Company / BusinessWeek / TechCrunch set
  5. Interesting data from the Pew Research Center’s “US Smartphone Use in 2015” report
  6. While I was away (or: Getting married and getting my 2011 MacBook fixed)

March 2015

  1. The new MacBook’s single port and why every new MacBook needs a different goddamn charger
  2. I see it’s “Browser Cosplay Day” today
  3. What’s happening at Mobile World Congress 2015, Day 3
  4. What’s happening at Mobile World Congress 2015, Day 2
  5. “The cartoonist has no idea how net neutrality works”
  6. Microsoft’s Swift/C# “cheat sheet”
  7. What’s happening at Mobile World Congress 2015, Day 1

February 2015

  1. A great “New Yorker” cartoon on emoji
  2. The local mobile app development opportunity
  3. This kid’s a future mobile developer
  4. Mobile share numbers for the end of 2014: 75% of Americans now have a smartphone
  5. How to work with dates and times in Swift, part four: A more Swift-like way to get the time interval between two dates [Updated for Swift 2]
  6. What the Sex Pistols and Tampa Bay Startup Week have in common
  7. Scenes from Tampa Bay Startup Week’s kickoff party
  8. How to work with dates and times in Swift, part three: Making date arithmetic more Swift-like [Updated for Swift 2]

January 2015

  1. T-shirt of the day, and how to clear your (ahem) wizard friend’s browser history
  2. How we thought the internet would turn out 20 years ago, and what actually happened
  3. How to work with dates and times in Swift, part two: Calculations with dates [Updated for Swift 2]
  4. Mobile roundup: Apple’s astonishing quarter, Samsung’s upcoming quarterly report, and BlackBerry’s modest proposal
  5. How to work with dates and times in Swift, part one [Updated for Swift 2]
  6. Jimmy Kimmel asks people on the street for their passwords; security hilarity ensues
  7. SWIFTly rising up the programming language charts
  8. A very brief introduction to date formatting in Swift and iOS
  9. Mobile pundit Tomi Ahonen’s predictions for smartphone vendors in 2015
  10. How to program an iOS text field that takes only numeric input with a maximum length [Updated]
  11. It’s 2015, the year when Windows Phone is supposed to take over!

2014 201

December 2014

  1. AT&T and T-Mobile might owe you money!
  2. What programmers wear
  3. Why you shouldn’t allow cheap tablets in your workplace
  4. The pre-holiday mobile roundup: Great last-minute ebook gifts, Samsung’s new RAM chips and old store, and strong iPhone 6 supply and demand
  5. GSG’s infographics on Pinterest
  6. Infographic: The next three years in mobile
  7. What a difference 20 years makes!
  8. The first set of iOS enterprise apps from Apple and IBM are out, and they’re gorgeous!
  9. Ovum’s top 5 trends for enterprise mobility in 2015, and the practical take-aways
  10. Programming poster of the day and Rob Pike’s 5 rules of programming
  11. “Cyber Monday” programming book deals

November 2014

  1. “Cyber Monday” deal: All Pragmatic Programmer ebooks are 50% off
  2. “Cyber Monday” deal: All O’Reilly books and videos are 50% off
  3. “Cyber Monday” deal: All Apress ebooks and alpha books for $15 each
  4. Shopify’s CEO Tobi Lütke named Canadian CEO of the Year
  5. Do you remember these?
  6. Microsoft’s latest open source/cross-platform move brings them back to their “pointy logo” era
  7. BYOD: Why employees hate it, how many do it without IT approval, and how to make it work
  8. In case you thought that “Unix Wizard” was just an expression…
  9. Mobile carrier news roundup: Where they make their money, AT&T’s and Verizon’s current offerings, archaic unlocking policies, and profiles of Sprint’s and T-Mobile’s CEOs

October 2014

  1. Tablet news roundup: the big players lose market share, RCA is a surprise contender, and this holiday’s Intel-powered tablets
  2. Church sign of the day
  3. BYOD, in pictures and numbers
  4. White Paper: Five Best Practices for Communications Lifecycle Management
  5. Mobile roundup: Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry
  6. Your Windows 10 joke of the day
  7. On vacation
  8. Your Satya Nadella demotivational poster of the day
  9. A tribute to Alec Saunders, VP Developer Relations at BlackBerry
  10. “Bloom County” predicted agile practices back in the ’80s
  11. Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms covered in Visual Studio Magazine
  12. Swift roundup: Game programming!
  13. The simple Swift shoot ’em up: updated for Xcode 6.0 and now on GitHub!

September 2014

  1. Xcode 6.1 beta 3 and iOS 8.1 beta are out!
  2. Mobile carrier news roundup: Verizon gets top marks, US wireless market trends, AT&T’s double data deal, and get your unlocked iPhone 6 at T-Mobile
  3. “The Flappening” (or: my fixed version of “Flappy Bird” in Swift)
  4. Mobile device roundup: BlackBerry Passport’s American-cheese-sized screen, “Bendghazi”, no Edge for you, and the FBI’s concerns about phone encryption
  5. Why your Swift apps broke in Xcode 6 beta 7 and the GM versions, and how to fix them
  6. I think the new sysadmin might be a little strict…
  7. BlackBerry Passport reviews
  8. Programmer quote of the day
  9. The post-opening weekend iPhone 6 / 6 Plus news roundup
  10. Swift/iOS developer tutorials of note
  11. Case study: Helping a healthcare business make the switch to BYOD and operational efficiency
  12. Happy Programmer’s Day! Here’s an ebook/video sale and some programmer-themed cocktail recipes.
  13. iPhone 6 news for people who work for a living
  14. A simple “shoot-em-up” game with Sprite Kit and Swift, part two: Code organization and vector math
  15. What I’d love to see at Tuesday’s Apple unveiling
  16. InfoSec Taylor Swift on Windows Phone security
  17. This fall’s new phones at IFA 2014
  18. You’ll be shocked by the “sale” price for this mobile phone from 1989

August 2014

  1. A closer look at the quick and dirty Xamarin.Forms “Magic 8-Ball” app
  2. Feeling bored and evil at an airport? Try this prank.
  3. Taking up Xamarin
  4. California’s “Kill Switch” bill is now a law
  5. How US mobile rates compare with other parts of the world
  6. Huawei, the #3 mobile phone manufacturer in the world
  7. Carrier news roundup: How today’s carriers came to be, and the current state of carrier competition
  8. The best USB cable organizers that you might not realize you have
  9. How to fix the “Apple Mach-O Linker / Undefined symbols for architecture” error in Xcode 6 beta 6
  10. California court ruling: Employers need to provide some reimbursement for work-related use of personal mobile phones
  11. Mobile device news roundup: Smartphone shipping record broken in 2Q14, Android and iOS account for over 96% of global market, Lenovo now selling more mobile devices than PCs
  12. GSG’s new “Mobility 101” video: Telecom Expense Management, or TEM
  13. Techie amusements
  14. A simple “shoot-em-up” game with Sprite Kit and Swift, part one: Last things first – the complete project
  15. White paper: Is your wireless expense management company doing enough to save you money?
  16. Telecom industry news roundup: DOT might ban calls on flights, carriers throttle data because that’s where the money is, and Comcast sweetens its internet deal for low-income customers
  17. Internet protocol joke of the day
  18. This is how I picture people who are exercising their “right to be forgotten”
  19. Case study: Saving a leading U.S. law firm over half a million dollars a year
  20. You can use Swift’s “private” access modifier to limit the reach of overrides and extensions, but not monkeypatches
  21. Americans can unlock their phones again…legally!

July 2014

  1. Mobile hardware news roundup: What’s in Amazon’s Fire Phone, here come the 64-bit mobile devices, and faster RAM is on the way
  2. Mobile news roundup for the “road warriors”: Charge quickly, find hotels with good wifi, and use your phone as your room key at Hilton hotels
  3. BYOD news roundup: Millennials are the biggest rulebreakers, nearly 80% of orgs lack BYOD policies, mobile is the new desktop, and some want their BlackBerry back
  4. Learn how to build Shopify apps with “Shopify Application Development”, a book technically reviewed by Yours Truly
  5. A first look at Swift’s new access levels
  6. Apple’s long shadow
  7. In spite of all the changes in the mobile industry, the carriers are managing to make even more money
  8. Telecom week in review, part 2: Scenes from the mobile market
  9. Telecom week in review, part 1: The Apple-IBM partnership
  10. Stephen Elop’s layoff email begins with a terribly inappropriate salutation
  11. Why is my photo in CITEworld’s article about Satya Nadella’s memo?
  12. An attempt to cancel Comcast service over the phone turns into an opera of obstruction
  13. Make the most of your Android and iOS devices
  14. Gartner predicts that tablets will outsell PCs in 2015
  15. This is what Android programming feels like
  16. Kirk and Spock travel to 2014; get laughed at for their pitiful mobile devices
  17. Traveling by air? Make sure your mobile devices are charged!

June 2014

  1. I’ll be the subject matter expert at this Pomeroy/InformationWeek/GSG webinar this Wednesday: “Uncovering the True Cost of Your Mobile Telecommunications”
  2. The benefits of putting “World of Warcraft” on your resume (and a funny reminder of WoW’s dangers)
  3. Swift roundup: Interesting sample code and tutorials I’ve found this week
  4. Hey, Google fans: Want to annoy the Apple fanboys?
  5. Game of Phones, part 1 (or: Arrays in the Swift programming language) [Updated]
  6. Swift Kick: Need more Swift programming examples? Go to Github!
  7. Swift Kick: Variables, constants, simple functions, and basic types in the Swift programming language
  8. Swift Kick: Resources for getting started with the Swift programming language
  9. Swift fun fact #1: You can use emoji characters in variable, constant, function, and class names
  10. One technology that’ll play a big role at Apple’s WWDC today is…

May 2014

  1. What software patches would look like in the physical world, and the first 3 laws of consulting
  2. Infographic: The mobile internet may hit 10 billion units/users
  3. GSG’s first “Mobility 101” video: Intro to MMS
  4. T-shirt of the moment: “Data is the new bacon”
  5. The old ban on personal electronics during takeoff and landing
  6. Memorial Day roundup: Remember the fallen, mobile tech and summer parties, 6 paid iOS apps – FREE!, and apps for last-minute travel
  7. The evolution of Microsoft Windows
  8. Mobile platform share: iOS owns the enterprise, and tablets are disrupting desktops and laptops
  9. Mobile news roundup: Google buys Divide, The Register loves the Moto E (mostly), and Samsung sells half a million smartwatches
  10. The $129 Moto E: A new standard for inexpensive company-issued mobile devices?
  11. This is what functional-language-and-NoSQL programmers sound like to imperative-language-and-SQL programmers
  12. “Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the new Apple iBeats headset.”
  13. There are more mobile subscriptions than TV sets, PCs, landline phones, and cable/satellite subscriptions combined
  14. Mobile news roundup: Two-thirds of emails are opened on mobile devices, Lenovo’s playing mobile “Moneyball”, and Nokia’s new “We’re with Microsoft now” ad
  15. Tech support, meet life support
  16. The UN’s latest telecom numbers: 3 billion people on the ‘net in 2014, and 2.3 billion of them get it on their mobiles
  17. Old tech of the day: Optical disk cartridge and friends
  18. Old tech of the day: the cassette tape drive
  19. Mobile roundup: The Apple/Samsung smartphone war, switching from deskphones, wireless carriers by the numbers, and smartphone material tradeoffs
  20. The leap in memory technology from 2005 to 2014
  21. Wireless carrier roundup: AT&T gets into in-flight wifi, Verizon’s secret cave, Sprint and T-Mobile’s network improvements

April 2014

  1. Mobile Device Roundup: Smartphone market share for Q1 2014, Nokia’s first ad under Microsoft, Mobile devices as seen from the ’80s
  2. “I wish you’d look up from that smartphone every now and then.”
  3. How burrowing owls, vomiting anarchists, smug techies, rich NIMBYs, city government and the man who gave us “Drinking the Kool-Aid” created the San Francisco housing crisis
  4. Mobile device roundup: Windows Phone 8.1 reviews, Cortana vs. Siri vs. Google Now, and did Android support touchscreens before the iPhone?
  5. The layperson-friendly guide to the “Heartbleed” bug
  6. iOS developer roundup: Learning Grand Central Dispatch, avoiding the Staircase of Doom, looking at AVSpeechSynthesizer and NSURL / NSURLComponents
  7. How to REALLY install the Windows 8.1 update
  8. The most dangerous phrase in the language is…
  9. Dirty laundry aired in the Apple/Samsung patent infringement suit, part two: The Samsung documents
  10. Dirty laundry aired in the Apple/Samsung patent infringement suit, part one: The Apple documents
  11. Wireless carrier news roundup: The T-Mobile/BlackBerry breakup, T-Mobile’s strategy is working, the other carriers respond, and OpenSignal rates wireless networks
  12. Happy 41st birthday, cellular phone!
  13. WWDC 14 FAQ: The no-fluff guide on how to apply for a ticket, and why you should/shouldn’t go.
  14. By popular demand: The TCP/IP layers, featuring cats!
  15. For your next presentation on networking: the OSI model, featuring cats
  16. BYOD news roundup: BYOD and the law, simplifying your BYOD security policy, and BYOC?

March 2014

  1. One great thing about those old iPhone connector plugs…
  2. This week’s Tampa Bay tech meetups
  3. Dispatches from the wireless wars: the fights over customers and spectrum
  4. If conference calls happened in real life
  5. It’s time to fix tech culture
  6. Not-so-old news: US experiencing highest level of entrepreneurship in more than a decade
  7. Geek meetups aplenty tonight in Tampa Bay (Thursday, March 20, 2014)
  8. IT spending will be almost $4 trillion this year, and most of it’s on telecom
  9. On GitHub and speaking out
  10. Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto revealed!
  11. An early look at Apple’s CarPlay
  12. Need photos taken at SxSW Interactive 2014? Call Kris Krüg!

February 2014

  1. Bitcoin joke of the day
  2. O’Reilly’s selling Apple-related eBooks and videos at 50% off for Steve Jobs’ birthday
  3. Mobile relationships: The one you THINK you have vs. the one you REALLY have
  4. Geek vs. non-geek reactions to a flaky internet connection
  5. What’s WhatsApp, and what can we learn from its acquisition?
  6. When it comes to mobile device policies, one size DOESN’T fit all
  7. Lee Dale’s servers-and-other-goodies sale!
  8. Who’s betting on BlackBerry?
  9. Enterprise mobile roundup
  10. Farhad Manjoo makes tech recs, and Microsoft’s Frank X. Shaw makes his rebuttal from an alternate reality
  11. How influential are mobile apps?
  12. What’s going on with Windows Phone?
  13. When videogame characters go bird-watching
  14. RayWenderlich.com’s iOS development video tutorials
  15. Here’s your “excuses for why there are no women speakers at the conference” bingo card
  16. Here come the flappy, crappy clones
  17. Following the Money with Apple, Google, and Microsoft
  18. Friday mobile tech videos!
  19. BYOD Roundup: Gartner predicts 1 in 5 BYOD programs will fail, what companies can and can’t see on your BYOD device, enterprise mobile stats and IT departments under BYOD pressure
  20. Android developers, rejoice! More than three-quarters of Android devices are running 4.0 or later
  21. “Destroy all monsters!” (or: Microsoft should embrace and extend John Gruber’s suggested mission statement)
  22. WOES: A catchy new acronym for Windows, Office, Exchange, and SharePoint, and Microsoft’s new willingness to play with others
  23. Musical Chairs at Microsoft: Satya Nadella is now CEO, John Thompson is Chairman, and Bill Gates is putting in more time
  24. InformationWeek’s “Mobile Insecurity” infographic

January 2014

  1. Friday mobile tech videos!
  2. “Shadow IT”: Not a threat, but an opportunity
  3. Smartphones, by the numbers
  4. Samsung’s software sea change
  5. The Motorola Deal: What Lenovo Gets, and What Google Gets
  6. Google, as described in a turn-of-the century “Internet 101” book: “No ads, no distractions, no portal litter.”
  7. “Star Trek” did it first!
  8. Wearables news roundup: Workers on wearables, Pebble Steel, Google’s diabetes contact lens, driving while glassing, pirates pass, and Borg mullets
  9. Mobile tech news roundup: Bankers embrace BYOD, BlackBerry one year later, skipping hotel check-in and keys with your smartphone
  10. I don’t think this is an official Apple product
  11. Worth Reading: BYOD for You — A guide to BYOD from the end user’s point of view
  12. The original “Stevenote” (or: Steve Jobs’ first public Macintosh demo, January 1984)
  13. Predictions for the Mobile World in 2014, Part Two
  14. The good, bad, and weird numbers behind Windows Phone
  15. Predictions for the Mobile World in 2014, Part One
  16. There are still some things that paper can do that tablets can’t
  17. A joke about the floppy disk in 2014, and the alphabet of the obsolete
  18. Kinetic Cafe and Saul Colt’s “Minds Beat Money 3” entrepreneurial event: Next Tuesday, January 28th in Toronto
  19. HP highlights its Windows 7 machines, saying it’s “back by popular demand”. Ouch.
  20. IT pros: Stop freaking out about Shadow IT. It’s an opportunity, not a crisis.
  21. Wearables roundup: Google’s smart contact lens, entrepreneur beats “Glassing while driving” ticket, pirates see no profit in copying wearables, and Diesel Sweeties’ amusing term for Google Glass
  22. The BYOD Baker’s Dozen: 13 things you should do if you’re implementing a “bring your own device” program at your company
  23. The mobile accessory you probably didn’t want: a bidet sprayer/toilet paper stand/tablet caddy
  24. Let me guess: you work at a startup, right?
  25. The verdict on Windows 8, and predictions for Windows 9
  26. San Francisco’s entitlement culture trickles down
  27. Blast from the past: “Rise from your grave!”
  28. Jeff Sandquist’s looking for a few good people to work at Twitter: Developer advocates, partner engineers, dev marketing people, and operations analysts
  29. Mobile technology, as predicted by “Star Trek”

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December 2013

  1. Mobile tech news roundup: Nearly two-thirds of Pornhub’s U.S. audience is viewing their vids on a mobile device, Samsung Galaxy Gear’s cringeworthy ad, and the mobile app quotes of the day
  2. Pivoting is the sincerest form of flattery (or: What the Android team did when the iPhone was announced)
  3. Firedoge: Such logo!
  4. Windows Phone turned a corner and is now in third place. Now what?
  5. Delta’s CEO says voice calls won’t be allowed on their flights
  6. Geeky photo of the day: “Infiltration diary, day 4: The Microsofties have accepted me as one of their own.” [Updated]
  7. Modern web design, explained in a single Venn diagram
  8. How to wrap the cords on your MacBook’s MagSafe adapter…the right way!
  9. Meanwhile, on my Windows machine…
  10. Your Friday productivity killer: BuzzFeed’s videos on mobile tech (plus some bonus ones)
  11. A “Calvin and Hobbes” comic from 20 years ago turned out to be eerily prescient
  12. FCC: Phone calls on planes! DOT: Whoa there, cowboy. [Updated]
  13. Fortinet’s Internet Security Census says Gen Y is big on BYOD and wearables, not so much on BYOD rules
  14. Shopify lands $100 million in third round of venture funding, joins the $1B valuation “Unicorn Club”
  15. Instapaper for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad: Free for a limited time!
  16. Preparing our kids for the mobile future
  17. comScore’s Mobile Numbers: Apple’s the #1 smartphone OEM in the U.S., Android’s the #1 platform, everyone else is way, way behind
  18. My FreshBooks experience: So far, so good!
  19. Royal Vogue: A gorgeous Art Deco typewriter typeface
  20. Trolling the cops with iPhone cookies
  21. The rise and fall of Blackberry, in insiders’ words and experiences
  22. Hey, NSA: I hear that morale is down since Edward Snowden exposed your shenanigans…
  23. It goes both ways: The proposed Type-C USB plug will (finally) be reversible
  24. “Kitan Club”: Weird cat-shaped mobile phone stands from (surprise, surprise) Japan
  25. BlackBerry’s open letter targets enterprise decision-makers: A Monty Pythonesque “We are very much alive, thank you”

November 2013

  1. Desert island smartphone
  2. Patrick Stewart has only one rule for using Twitter
  3. iOS Developer Roundup: New edition of The iOS Apprentice, Validated text fields, Typhoon dependency injection framework, and lots of algos in Obj-C
  4. Don’t laugh. A lot of software is patched in pretty much the same way.
  5. 37signals’ comeback to that onerous Office 365 “#GetItDone” infographic
  6. The saddest infographic in the land
  7. U.S. telcos don’t want your phone to have a theft-preventing “kill switch” because it cuts into their insurance business
  8. Samsung Galaxy Gear: A “small green tomato” that sold 50,000 or 800,000 units, depending on whom you ask
  9. Where I was, two Thursdays ago
  10. IT “soft skills” in action
  11. Let’s hope this is one of the organizational changes at Microsoft
  12. The WSJ on Steve Ballmer’s decision to leave Microsoft
  13. du_hast(mich); (or: If you like ’90s industrial rock and C++, you’ll appreciate this!)
  14. RayWenderlich.com’s job interview article series
  15. Xamarin and Microsoft announce a partnership to make it easier to use C# to build mobile apps for all the big platforms
  16. Microsoft eliminates stack ranking, and hopefully its Dwight K. Schrute-breeding culture with it
  17. On Vacation: Back on November 11th!
  18. The BlackBerry/Fairfax Deal Falling Through is Probably a Good Thing
  19. One reason I’m looking forward to being able to use personal electronics through the entire flight
  20. JetBlue 2302: The first flight to allow gate-to-gate use of personal electronic devices
  21. What Halloween Looks Like Right Now

October 2013

  1. Halloween Costumes for Programmers (and IT People)
  2. AWWW YISS: We’ll Soon Be Able to Use Our Electronic Devices on Flights, From Gate to Gate
  3. Mobile Hardware Roundup: Mobile Devices Now Bigger Than Consumer Electronics, Samsung Ships More Than Apple, LG and Nokia Combined, Motorola’s Modular Smartphone Platform, Google’s Smartwatch
  4. 32 Bits Ought to Be Enough for Anybody (or: Qualcomm’s CMO Gets Reassigned After He Calls Apple’s 64-Bit A7 Chip a “Gimmick”)
  5. How to Install Rails 4 on Windows (Including Windows 8 and 8.1)
  6. How I Embarrassed Myself in My Interview with Google: The Thrilling Conclusion!
  7. Mobile Phone Hack of the Day: Telephoto Lens
  8. Microsoft’s Frank X. Shaw and Their Oxygen Deprivation Problem
  9. The Difference Between Microsoft and Apple Coverage on Techmeme (or: “Nobody Likes Us, Everybody Hates Us, Think We’ll Go Eat Worms”)
  10. Today’s Tablet Announcements: The Lumia 2520 and iPad Air
  11. I’d Much Rather Be Doing This Than Reading SharePoint Documentation at 10:30 on a Monday Night
  12. How to Turn Your Smartphone into a Microscope
  13. Alex Payne’s Advice to Young Programmers Considering Startups
  14. It’s Windows 8.1 Upgrade Time — Wish Me Luck!
  15. I Has the Dumb (or: How I Embarrassed Myself in My Interview with Google)
  16. I Need a Little SharePoint Help in Toronto Next Week
  17. How to Make Windows 8.1 Boot into Desktop Mode
  18. Yet Another Joke About Today’s Big Smartphones
  19. iOS Developer Article Roundup: An Editable UITableViewController, a Cancellable Asynchronous NSURLConnection, “Auto Layout in iOS 7” Tutorials, and NSError
  20. Mobile Device Photo of the Day, or: “A Computer in Every Hand, and in Every Can.”
  21. Toronto BBQ-and-Beer Event for the Lightning Platform Tonight!
  22. 2009’s Laptops = 2013’s Smartphones
  23. Two Mobile Tech Lessons from a Japanese Electronics Shop Photo
  24. Enterprise Mobility Exchange’s “The Mobility Revolution” Video
  25. iPhone Case of the Day
  26. “App Marketing Secrets Revealed”: A Great Book at a Great Price — and for a Limited Time, 40% Off!
  27. Staying Sharp: Maintaining Your Development Skills
  28. The Mysterious “Hooray for Big Brother” Billboards in Silicon Valley are BitTorrent’s Awareness Campaign
  29. Lenovo X201 Tablet for Sale – $450
  30. If the Trend in Smartphone Size Continues…
  31. iOS Developer Roundup: Storyboards vs. Nibs vs. Code, Space Invaders and Sprite Kit, Key-Value Observing, and ZXingObjC
  32. How I Set Up My Windows 8 System for Android Development [Updated]
  33. A Developer Tip from “Adventure Time” [Updated]
  34. Tech in Motion: Tonight (Thursday, October 3rd) at The Burroughes
  35. Jennifer “180 Sites in 180 Days” Dewalt Completed Day 180!
  36. Justin’s Been Hired!
  37. Why “Private Mode” Exists
  38. Xtreme Labs Acquired by Pivotal
  39. A Couple of Ideas for Your Next Mobile Game…From 30 Years Ago!
  40. “They’re (Almost) All Dirty”: A Damning Indictment of Most Major Android OEMs for Cheating With Benchmarks
  41. Ladies Learning Code’s 2nd Anniversary Party: Tomorrow at Hotel Ocho!
  42. Reg Braithwaite’s “JavaScript Allongé” Now Free-as-in-Speech, Free-as-in-Coffee
  43. The Seven Deadly Sites
  44. Call Me Crazy, But I Think NextMicrosoftCEO.com is Waaaaaay Off
  45. “Shamsung” Strikes Again (or: The Galaxy Note 3 is Programmed to “Game” Benchmarking Apps)
  46. A Speed Comparison Test of Every iPhone Ever Made
  47. iOS 7 Developer Tutorial-a-palooza: iOS 7 Sampler, a UIMotionEffect Tutorial, 3 UIKit Dynamics Tutorials, 3 Sprite Kit Tutorials, and a Text Kit Tutorial

September 2013

  1. Mobile App Design Roundup
  2. Computer Graphics Pun of the Day
  3. Grand and Second Prizes
  4. One of the Side Effects of High Tech
  5. The Smartphone Market, Depicted as Summer Camp Romances
  6. iOS Developer News Roundup: What’s New in Objective-C and Foundation in iOS 7, NSBrief, and My Appventure
  7. The Installation Fun Continues!
  8. How It Feels When I Connect to Free Wifi
  9. iOS 7 Development Tutorials Aplenty
  10. iOS 7 Tech Talks – Coming Live to Cities in October, Videos Online in December
  11. I’m Installing This Tonight…
  12. Funny or Die’s “Mac Story”, Where the iPhone 5S Plays Buzz Lightyear [Updated with A7 Benchmark Results]
  13. iOS Fortnightly Tutorial: A Simple Weather App, Part 2
  14. My Bookmarked Predictions of RIM/BlackBerry’s Comeback from Last Year
  15. Hangin’ with R2-D2 at the Toronto Mini Maker Faire
  16. One Serious (and One Not-So-Serious) Picture of the Evolution of iOS
  17. BarCamp Tampa 2013: This Saturday, September 28th
  18. BlackBerry: “This is the Beginning of the End”
  19. Seems Legit…
  20. It’s Ugly, But it Got the Job Done
  21. Internet Traffic at 112% Above Normal; It’s Probably iOS 7’s Fault
  22. The Sort of Cool “How-To” You’ll See at Toronto Mini Maker Faire: How to Make LED “Throwies”
  23. Firing a Mortar? There’s an App for That
  24. iOS 7’s Ringtones and Alert/Text Tones
  25. Toronto Mini Maker Faire 2013 This Saturday and Sunday!
  26. An Important Message About Infographics
  27. Sound Email Advice
  28. Cyrus Farivar’s Article on Zynga’s Fall, and My Own Experience with a Zynga-Worshipping Game Developer
  29. Windows Phone’s Bad Call with their “iPhone 5C/5S” Ad, and the Good Calls They Made with Earlier Ones
  30. The Windows Phone “I Want to Believe” Graphic
  31. iOS 7 Development: Installing the Xcode and iOS 7 Golden Masters
  32. How to Cover Your Ass When Your CxO Refuses to Use a Passcode on His/Her Mobile Device
  33. Mobile News Roundup: Phonebloks, Marissa Meyer’s Insecure Phone, iPhone 5C and 5S
  34. Misfile Under “Computer Science”
  35. A Man for All Seasons
  36. Hire Justin Kozuch!
  37. My Last-Minute Panel Appearance at Jobspring Toronto’s “Tech in Motion” Meetup
  38. “Dear MR. NOKIA!” (or: Microsoft’s Acquisition of Nokia as the Result of Nigerian “419”-style Spam)
  39. When Your iPad is Your iPod
  40. Meanwhile in Japan, Part 1 [Updated]
  41. My Favourite Microsoft-Nokia Infographic
  42. “Sudden Clarity Clarence” on the Microsoft-Nokia Deal
  43. iOS Fortnightly Tutorial: A Simple Weather App, Part 1

August 2013

  1. Bakers and Accordions! (Or: What Every Tech Ad Seems to Have)
  2. Grand Theft Auto V’s Official Trailer
  3. Playing to My Strengths
  4. Two Canadian Tech Companies, Two Very Different Stories: Shopify and BlackBerry
  5. And Now, What I LOVED About Working at Microsoft
  6. The Thing About Phone Cameras…
  7. Mobile Device News Roundup: Galaxy Tab 3 for Kids, Galaxy Gear and Samsung’s “Unpacked 2”, Windows 8.1, 300 Days with the iPad Mini, Nokia Sirius Tablet, and the iPhone 5C
  8. Rogers Smart Home Monitoring
  9. This is How I Imagine Facebook’s Plan to “Help the Developing World”
  10. “Stack Ranking” Observations from My Time at Microsoft
  11. The Agony and the Opportunity of the “Reply-All” Button
  12. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Retire “Within 12 Months”
  13. iOS Fortnightly: Tweaking the 8-Ball App with a plist
  14. Unspace’s Office May Have Burned Down, But Unspace is Still Burning Bright
  15. The First “iOS Fortnightly” Tutorial: The Magic 8-Ball
  16. Mobile Tech News Roundup: “Android is Better”, How Much the Average App Makes, Working Only on a iPad, Apple’s September 10th Event, Windows 8.1 and BlackBerry’s Flush
  17. My Moment of Airport Zen / Vine Needs to Reinforce Good Smartphone Video-Shooting Habits
  18. Some Guesses About Apple’s September 10th Event
  19. IDC’s 2Q13 Smartphone Share Report: It’s iOS vs. Android, and Windows Phone vs. Everyone Else
  20. Why Jeff Bezos Bought the Washington Post, and How Other Acquisitions Compare
  21. Are You a 1990s Cyberpunk?
  22. Congratulations, Jet Cooper, on Your Acquisition by Shopify!

July 2013

  1. Shopify’s Toronto Job Openings (PR Manager and Social Media Manager) and Some Insider’s Hints on How to Land Those Jobs
  2. Music Hack Day is Coming to Toronto – August 10th and 11th!
  3. Practice Makes Perfect: Learning to Code by Building 180 Web Applications in 180 Days
  4. Damian Conway Returns to Toronto – Tuesday, August 6th at Mozilla, and Thursday, August 8th at U of T
  5. Area Man Makes Good (or: Reg Braithwaite Now Works at GitHub!)
  6. iOS 7 Development: Tutorials to Get You Started
  7. On Vacation – Back Monday, July 8th

June 2013

  1. Should You Use a QR Code?, Part 2
  2. Oh, CSS, How You Try My Patience Sometimes…
  3. iOS 7 Development: Getting Xcode 5 Developer Preview 2 and iOS 7 Beta 2
  4. A Little Cellular Reception Humour
  5. 8 Simple Rules for Bringing Your Own Device (or: Comprehensive BYOD and its Benefits)
  6. iOS 7 Development: Getting iOS 7 on Your iPhone or 5th-Gen iPod Touch / Getting Xcode 4.6.3
  7. Mobile is Eating the World!
  8. iOS 7 Development: Getting and Setting Up Xcode 5 and the iOS 7 SDK
  9. New iOS, New Interface, New Opportunity, New Developer Tutorial Series!
  10. Facebook and IDC’s Study Says Most of Us Check Our Smartphones Within 15 Minutes of Waking Up and Have Them Handy 22 Hours a Day
  11. Just When You Thought That XBox One’s PR Couldn’t Get Any Worse, the Xbox Boss Proves That It’s Possible
  12. How Google Should Respond to Yesterday’s Apple Keynote
  13. Mobile Device Demographic Roundup: More Mobile Devices Than People By 2017, 1 in 3 American Adults Owns a Tablet, and the LGBT Market Really Love Their Mobile Devices
  14. Here’s How You Share and Play Used Games on the PlayStation 4
  15. The Bathroom Line at WWDC
  16. Where to Watch the WWDC 2013 Keynote, Where the Liveblogs Are, and Past Keynotes
  17. BYOD Roundup: People are Smuggling Their Own Devices, Two-Thirds of Companies Lack a BYOD Policy
  18. This Photo Reminds Me of the Outcomes of Nearly Every Agile Project I’ve Heard About Lately
  19. State of the Mobile Device Nation in June 2013

May 2013

  1. Eventually, All Statically-Typed Object-Oriented Code Ends Up Looking Like This…
  2. Back in Business!
  3. Alberta Travel Diary
  4. Mobile News Roundup: Modern Android Takes Over, Who Sold How Many Tablets in 1Q13, iOS Users Still the Most Active

April 2013

  1. Karen Geier’s High-larious “Thorsten Tips”
  2. Delusional CEO of Company Scrambling for Distant Third Place Says They’ll Be the “Absolute Leader” in Five Years
  3. Unspace’s Toronto Embergarten: An Ember.js Boot Camp, May 18th and 19th
  4. Class Warfare: Panel on the Pros and Cons of Formal Training for the Videogame Industry – Toronto, Thursday, April 25th
  5. Free as in Crap
  6. Results from the LinkedIn “Information Security” Group’s 2013 BYOD/Mobile Security Survey, Part 1: The State of BYOD
  7. Updating RayWenderlich.com’s “AFNetworking Crash Course” for iOS 6
  8. BYOD Roundup: The “BYOD for You” Book, Liability, and Shadow IT
  9. My Easy-Peasy Bitcoin Mining HOWTO
  10. Ads for the Samsung Galaxy S4
  11. Should You Use a QR Code?
  12. Why I’m Not a Windows Phone Developer [Updated]
  13. Finally, a Car for Pair Programmers!
  14. Programmers Being Dicks, and Other Related Tales [Updated]
  15. BYOD Roundup: Lots of “Bring Your Own Device” Stats

March 2013

  1. Sitting Back Before Talking About the PyCon Incident / What IS a Developer Evangelist, Anyway?
  2. I’d Like to See More USB Cables With Jacks Like These
  3. Mobile Phones’ Effect on Photography
  4. Management Tips from Jean-Luc Picard
  5. Samsung’s Big Broadway Galaxy S4 Showcase: Well, THAT Was Weird…
  6. Notes from the Business Development Bank of Canada’s “Igniting Innovation” Presentation, March 7th, 2013
  7. Shadow IT: Convenient, But Not Without Risk
  8. BYOD Roundup: Mobility Policies and CTS’ Mobility Policy Guidebook, Samsung Knox, Making BYOD More Appealing to Users

February 2013

  1. Developer Roundup: Penny Arcade’s Glowing Review of the Surface Pro, New Releases of Ruby, Rails and CoffeeScript, and the Best Programmers are the Quickest to Google
  2. Reports Show Enterprise Mobile Trends, Our Attachment to Mobile Devices, and How People Use Their Mobile Devices
  3. The iPhone’s Virtual Keyboards: A Visual Catalogue
  4. IDC’s Smartphone Stats for 4Q 2012, and a Review of Their Mobile OS Share Prediction for 2015
  5. What Passes for “Computer Science” at the Bookstore
  6. BYOD Roundup: Top 10 BYOD Tips, 4 BYOD Policy No-Nos and Surprising BYOD Stats
  7. Save 40% Off Ebooks at Apress’ Valentine’s Sale
  8. The Apple iCar and Those “If Operating Systems Were Cars” Jokes
  9. The Greatest Traceroute Ever (or: What CCIEs Do When They’re Bored)
  10. My Favourite Xcode Improvement
  11. We Know MANY People Who Need One of These
  12. Mobile Business News Roundup: The Executive’s Guide to BYOD, More from the Mobile Workforce Adoption Trends Report, and IDC Canada’s Mobile Worker Forecast
  13. What Smartphones and Tablets Do Information Workers Use and Want?
  14. I Should Store My Cables This Way
  15. Like a Book Club, But For Toronto Developers Who Want to Learn How to Make iOS Games
  16. The REAL Reason Software Developers Wear Hoodies
  17. R.I.P. XNA: A Nice Game Development Toolset Dies of Neglect
  18. Evgeny Morozov and Tim O’Reilly’s Twitter Debate About Silicon Valley and its Effect on San Francisco’s Culture

January 2013

  1. My Cure for Insomnia: Updating the Hell Out of My LinkedIn Profile
  2. Learn About Building Firefox OS Mobile Apps This Saturday (January 26th) in Toronto!
  3. Shopify’s Looking for a Toronto-Based Social Media and Community Manager
  4. I’ll Admit It; I’d Get One
  5. Don’t Let Your Desk Be a Security Liability
  6. What’s Happening with the Coworking Space I’m Starting
  7. US Attorney’s Official Statement on Aaron Swartz. I Call BS.
  8. Sexting (and Other Obsessive Mobile Device Activity) Predicted 100 Years Ago
  9. Dell Tries to Go Private, But Maybe It’s Time to Heed Their Founder’s 1997 Advice to Apple
  10. Saying Hello and Goodbye to Aaron Swartz
  11. The Management/Employee BYOD Gap
  12. Samsung and Android News Roundup
  13. My Favourite Java Joke
  14. The First Mobile Developer News Roundup of 2013: A Whole Lotta iOS News
  15. Happy New Year!

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December 2012

  1. Tufte’s “Data Analysis for Politics and Policy” Available Online for Free
  2. The iPad: Still the Only Tablet That Matters, If the Indirect Metrics are to be Believed
  3. Mobile Products We DON’T Recommend
  4. 2012’s Mobile Numbers, Part 3: Mobile Traffic
  5. And While They’re at it, Can They Also Implement “FrogBuzz”?
  6. 2012’s Mobile Numbers, Part 2: Worldwide Mobile Penetration
  7. 2012’s Mobile Numbers, Part 1: Approaching the “Mobile Moment”
  8. Save 75% Off IDEs and Developer Tools in JetBrains’ “End of the World” Sale!
  9. Meanwhile, on Mobilize!…
  10. Seeking Office Space in Toronto
  11. New Blog: Mobilize!
  12. Moleskine’s “Paper Notebooks vs. Smartphones” Video
  13. Mobile Developer News Roundup: Google Maps for iOS, jQuery Mobile Panels, Windows Store Apps for iOS Developers
  14. Mobile Developer News Roundup: Ereaders Losing to Tablets, Cracking Windows 8 Games, 2012’s Top Mobile Vulns and Sploits, DevOps Best Practices
  15. Diving into Android

November 2012

  1. How Software is Made
  2. A Fairer FizzBuzz? and Other Thoughts
  3. The Worst Possible Name for an Apple Employee
  4. Further Into FizzBuzz!
  5. “We’re Just Like Apple. You Can Buy Our Stuff Now.”
  6. FizzBuzz Still Works
  7. Goodbye, Mr. Sinofsky
  8. Local Heroes: Shifthub’s and Maluuba’s Video Interviews at TechCrunch Toronto
  9. A Great Time at TechCrunch Toronto Last Night
  10. The Lines That Got Me in Trouble at Microsoft (and the contest winner!)
  11. Microsoft Gets Touch, and the Touch Technology Article That Got Me in Trouble at Microsoft (plus a contest!)
  12. Adventure Time in Startup Land

October 2012

  1. Notes from Brad Feld’s Presentation in Toronto on Building Startup Communities
  2. Brad Feld in Toronto Tomorrow (Tuesday, October 30th)
  3. Congratulations to Tris Hussey, New Editor-in-Chief of iPhoneHacks.com!
  4. Your Signature on a Mobile Phone: Marketing vs. Reality
  5. Mobile Developer News Roundup: Windows Phone 8 Launch, Windows 8 Dev Tutorials on Channel 9, “iOS 5 by Tutorials” Updated
  6. Thought for the Day
  7. The New Excuse
  8. Scenes from Microsoft’s Surface Pop-Up Store in Toronto
  9. Scenes from Last Night’s Surface Launch in Times Square (and Where to See Surface in Canada)
  10. Shit Android Fans Say
  11. Mobile Developer News Roundup: Discount Code for “iOS in Practice”, Nokia Lumia 510, Samsung Galaxy Note II, and Today’s Apple Event
  12. Mobile Developer News Roundup: App Store Search Terms, iOS 6 Adoption Hits 61% in U.S./Canada, Field Guide to Mobile App Testing
  13. Commander Riker’s “Turbolift Pitch” for Early ’90s Enterprise Software
  14. Mobile Developer News Roundup: Mobile Games, Mobile Career Opportunities, Mobile Markets, and Mobile Commerce
  15. This Hour Has 22 Minutes’ “iPad Mini” Skit
  16. Stewart Brand on Learning Those Difficult Technical Skills
  17. Lots of Surface News Today
  18. This Chinese iPhone Store Needs a Better Translator
  19. Someone Figured Out My Password…
  20. R.I.P. Michael O’Connor Clarke
  21. Hypothetical Videogame of the Day
  22. iOS Developer News Roundup: iPad Mini on October 23?, iPhone 5 in Demand, iOS 6 for iPhone 5 PSDs, UIButton in Depth, Cheddar Source Code and Steve’s Prescient 1983 Speech
  23. A Conversation with Brad Feld in Toronto: Tuesday, October 30th
  24. Toronto TechCrunch Meetup: Monday, November 5
  25. Mobile Developer News Roundup: iOS Simulator Tips and Tricks, iOS SDK for Web Designers and Who Uses Mobile Devices and QR Codes
  26. How Times Have Changed: Jason Kottke on Apple and Microsoft, Back in 2000
  27. The “iPhone 5 Super-Glued to the Sidewalk” Trick
  28. Mobile Developer News Roundup, Android Edition: Get “50 Android Hacks” Cheap, Accesibility, Consume Azure Mobile Services from Android
  29. Mobile Developer News Roundup: The Horror of Mobile Web Development, Consuming Azure Mobile Services from iOS, and Windows 8 / Windows Phone 8 Events Later This Month
  30. Hi-Call’s Bluetooth Glove Lets You Make and Take Calls Using the “Call Me” Hand Gesture
  31. A Step Forward (or: Objective-C Doesn’t Need Forward Declarations Anymore)
  32. Mobile Developer News Roundup: Windows Phone Edition
  33. Rapper Appearance Goes Terribly Wrong at Microsoft Store; Highlights Their “George Costanza Problem” [Updated]
  34. How New Yorkers with iOS 6’s Maps See the World
  35. Lenovo’s Looking for the World’s Oldest Working ThinkPad

September 2012

  1. Autosynthesis / I’m Really Into This / Everybody Happy When We Write Less Code
  2. Fighting Tooth and Nail for Third Place
  3. The iPhone 5 and Scratchy Show (or: You’re Holding It Wrong 2.0 and Design for Deterioration)
  4. “RIM Speedwagon” Tells Developers in a Music Video That They’ll “Keep On Loving You”; Maybe It’s Time to Declare a Moratorium on These Things
  5. Mobile Developer News Roundup: Appcelerator/IDC Survey of Mobile Devs, 5 Reasons Why Responsive Design Isn’t Worth It, and Android Can Be Beautiful
  6. What the iPhone 20 and Galaxy S 23 Might Look Like Together
  7. Objective-C’s New NSNumber, NSArray and NSDictionary Syntaxes Mean Less “Yak Shaving” for iOS and OS X Developers
  8. Meanwhile, in Japan…
  9. The London Underground’s Advisory for iOS 6 Users
  10. Mobile Developer News Roundup: The Amazing iOS 6 Maps, iPhone 5 Lines, Why You Should be an iOS Developer and the iOS 6 Feast
  11. The “Bottom Line” from Many iPhone 5 Reviews, All in One Place
  12. Microsoft Signs Licensing Deal with RIM, But You Wouldn’t Know It From RIM’s Site
  13. From the Empire to a Startup: Why Jaclyn Left Microsoft and Joined Shoplocket
  14. A Helpful Guide for Writing Your Startup’s Executive Summary
  15. Coming Up This Wednesday: Toronto Techie Dim Sum and the Ladies Learning Code Fundraiser [Updated]
  16. Developer Love for the Go Programming Language
  17. Mobile Developer News Roundup: Apple’s iPhone 5, Amazon’s Kindle Family and Nokia’s Lumia 920 Keynotes, All in One Place
  18. Toronto Techie Dim Sum: Wednesday, September 19th!
  19. What the iPhone 20 Might Look Like
  20. Meanwhile, at Microsoft…
  21. Target Market Acquired!
  22. Two Great Node Books at One Great Price: The Node Beginner Book and Hands-On Node.js
  23. Shit Apple Fanatics Say
  24. “It Worked Fine in Dev…”
  25. We Can Dream, Can’t We?
  26. Mobile Developer News Roundup: Nokia’s Head of Design, Nokia Lumia 820 and 920, The “Ugly Little Game” That’s an App Store Hit, Building an iOS Drawing App with UIKit
  27. The Nokia 920 Keynote Liveblog
  28. I’ll Be at the Hand Eye Society’s Education Working Group Meeting Tonight
  29. Ladies Learning Code Fundraiser Party: Wednesday, September 19th in Toronto
  30. Apple, Samsung and Nokia

August 2012

  1. Barack Obama’s AMA Makes Reddit’s Biggest Day
  2. On a Short Break
  3. TShirtOS Strikes Again in a New Video
  4. We’re Looking for iOS, Android and ASP.NET MVC Developers
  5. The Easiest Way to Get Ubuntu Linux on Your Windows Computer (So You Can Learn C the Hard Way)
  6. C, the Programming Language: Still On Top After All These Years
  7. Updated on My GitHub: “inPulse Magic 8-Ball: A Beginner’s Tutorial for Programming inPulse Smartwatch Apps”
  8. Why You Should Hire Me
  9. Microsoft Developer News Roundup: Microsoft’s Build Conference Sells Out in an Hour, Windows 8 Pros and Cons, Windows 8 UI Described as Bad Fit for Desktop, Surface 2 Already Being Worked On
  10. Mobile Developer News Roundup: LinkedIn TechTalks on HTML5 Mobile Apps and jQuery, and jQuery Mobile 1.2.0 Alpha Announced
  11. Microsoft Developer News Roundup: Metro No More, Visual Studio and .NET Final Builds, Speeding Visual Studio by Optimizing the Toolbox and Windows 8 Hackathons in Canada
  12. tshirtOS: I Want One, and I Want to Hack on One!
  13. Mobile Developer News Roundup: RubyMotion Tutorial, Android Phone-Based IDE, iOS Image Tricks and Android Design Tips

July 2012

  1. Mobile Developer News Roundup for Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
  2. Thoughts on “Microsoft’s Lost Decade” and Its Windows 8 Challenges
  3. Whyday is Coming!
  4. Newly Added to My GitHub: “inPulse Magic 8-Ball: A Beginner’s Tutorial for Programming inPulse Smartwatch Apps”
  5. Hero: Lenovo’s CEO Distributes $3 Million of His Bonus Among Junior-Level Employees
  6. Judge Grounds Apple, Forces It to Wear Sign Admitting It Said Nasty Stuff About Samsung
  7. The Red Blotchy Arm of Death
  8. Steve Blank Explains Startups to the National Governors’ Association
  9. Mobile Developer Roundup for Monday, July 16, 2012
  10. The “What People Think I Do” Poster for Business Analysts
  11. Something’s Afoot!

June 2012

  1. Mobile Developer News Roundup for Tuesday, June 26, 2012
  2. Long Time No See!
  3. If Apple Made Cats
  4. Techmeme’s Current Status: WWDC, WWDC and More WWDC
  5. Microsoft TechEd: The Developer Conference That Everyone Forgot
  6. Mobile Developer News Roundup for Monday, June 11, 2012
  7. Just Puttin’ It Out There…
  8. Finally, a Site That Lets You Violate Twitter’s Brand Guidelines!
  9. Vaya con iOS, Entry #3: Some Personal Notes, iTunes U and The iOS Apprentice
  10. IDC Rolls Back Their Crazy Windows Phone Market Share Predictions By a Year
  11. Mobile Developer News Roundup for Wednesday, June 6, 2012
  12. Change Your LinkedIn Password Now!
  13. A Day in the Life of a Developer Evangelist
  14. Mobile Developer News Roundup for Monday, June 4, 2012
  15. Mobile Developer News Roundup for Sunday, June 3, 2012
  16. Joey deVilla’s 2012 Resume
  17. Mobile Developer News Roundup for Friday, June 1, 2012

May 2012

  1. Vaya con iOS, Entry #2: A New Challenger — JetBrains’ AppCode — Appears!
  2. Mobile Developer News Roundup for Wednesday, May 30, 2012
  3. Vaya con iOS, Entry #1: The iOS Development Journey Begins
  4. Shopify Gets a Visit from the Premier
  5. Mobile Developer News Roundup for Monday, May 28, 2012
  6. Mobile Developer News Roundup for Friday, May 25, 2012
  7. Mobile Developer News Roundup for Thursday, May 24, 2012
  8. Mobile Developer News Roundup for Wednesday, May 23, 2012
  9. “Working with Unix Processes” Now Available on the Pragmatic Bookshelf
  10. Phone Programming and “Funemployment”
  11. Joey’s Summer Vacation
  12. Mobile Development News Roundup for Tuesday, May 22, 2012
  13. NetMarketShare Says IE Still Has a Comfy Lead
  14. W3Counter and Clicky Say That Chrome Isn’t the Number One Browser…Yet!
  15. The Browser Share Situation, in Cartoon Form
  16. Chrome is Now the Most-Used Browser
  17. Mobile Development News Roundup for Friday, May 18, 2012
  18. The $100 “Make Like a Sponsor” Conference Swag Trick
  19. Mobile Development News Roundup for Monday, May 14, 2012
  20. This is My Ringtone
  21. Mobile Development News Roundup for Friday, May 11, 2012
  22. Get Well Soon, RMS!
  23. Tips for Attendees at Big Omaha: How to Make the Rounds [Updated]
  24. RubyMotion’s Beautiful Installer
  25. Scenes from BlackBerry World
  26. How Mobile Devices Changed What I Wanted in My Car Stereo
  27. Heading to Big Omaha
  28. Nielsen’s Mobile OS Market Share Breakdown Says Android’s on Half the Phones, Windows Phone’s Below 2% and the Asian Stereotype is True
  29. The Windows Phone Predictions that IDC, Gartner and Pyramid Research Probably Hope You’ve Forgotten

April 2012

  1. Shopify’s in the List of Companies that Facebook Should Buy
  2. The Software Centipede
  3. Lessons from 4 Months and $18,000 of Ebook Sales
  4. Geeks and Repetitive Tasks
  5. This Shopify Recruiting Poster Made Me Laugh
  6. $500 Apple Store Gift Card for the Best Shopify App at HackTO
  7. How a True Apple Fanboy Orders a New iPad
  8. Japanese and American Intel Ultrabook Ads
  9. OMGPOP’s CEO Dan Porter: Goofus or Gallant?
  10. My Favourite Response to Facebook’s Purchase of Instagram
  11. Sign of the Times (or: “Has $13,000 Worth of Camera Gear; Uses Phone Instead”)
  12. An Honest PowerPoint Slide

March 2012

  1. The Silence of the Weasels (or: The silences from that incredibly awkward Mike Daisey interview on “This American Life”)
  2. HackVan Happens This Saturday in Vancouver, and Shopify Will Be There!
  3. Learning and Having Fun with Git and GitHub
  4. “PayPal Here” Announced, and Thoughts on Mobile Payment
  5. Shopify’s Saturday Afternoon Warm-Up Party at SxSW!
  6. ConFoo: A Most Excellent Web Techno Conference!
  7. Toronto Techie Dim Sum: Wednesday March 7th at Sky Dragon!

February 2012

  1. Maybe Dell Could Just Shut Down and Give the Money Back to the Shareholders
  2. Come Party with Shopify at SxSW!
  3. ConFoo Happens This Week, and Shopify Will Be There!
  4. Wilson Miner: "When We Build"
  5. Rockin’ the Accordion at a Business Development Meeting
  6. Daniel Burka’s Presentation at Sprout Up
  7. What’s Shaping the Future of Mobile Commerce
  8. Maintaining Your Online Reputation
  9. Shopify’s Going to ConFoo, and You Should Too! (February 29–March 2 in Montreal)
  10. Rick Mercer’s Rant on Bill C-30: Online Privacy Doesn’t Make Us Criminal, It Makes Us Canadian
  11. How to Tell HTML from HTML5 (or: Microsoft’s Image Problem)
  12. Shopify’s on Fast Company’s “The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies” List! / You Should Work With Us
  13. What People Think Entrepreneurs Do
  14. Ruby Job Fair in Toronto Tonight!
  15. Reg Braithwaite on Crazy IP and Copyright Laws: “I Have a Bad Feeling About This”
  16. Shopify at a SxSW Session: “5 Brands Travel the US Inspiring Entrepreneurship”– Sunday, March 11th, 3:30–4:30
  17. Path CEO Dave Morin Says “We’re Sorry”; Path Deleting Collected Contacts Data
  18. Shopify Apps and the Shopify Fund
  19. Led Down the Garden Path [Updated]
  20. Shopify’s Looking for a Director of Operations
  21. Farewell and Thanks, Jeff Atwood!
  22. Samsung’s Superbowl Ad, the Galaxy Note and the Dreaded Netbook “Zone of Suck” [Updated]
  23. Looking For a Job at Shopify? Come to Ruby Job Fair 2012 and Talk to Me!
  24. You’ve Got Questions About Startups, Dan Martell has 189 Answers
  25. Shopify Tutorial: Associating Product Variants with Product Images
  26. Shopify Acquires Select Start Studios

January 2012

  1. Twitter’s So-Bad-It’s-Good Recruiting Video
  2. Shit Programmers Say
  3. JavaScript Oddities from the WAT Video, Explained
  4. Eee Pad Transformer Parody Ad
  5. WAT? A Funny Look at Ruby and JavaScript Oddities
  6. HackDays Toronto, and Shopify will be there – Saturday, February 12th!
  7. The Internet Gate, Powered by SOPA
  8. Featured Shopify App: Bizelo eRetail Centralized Inventory Management
  9. Shopify CEO and CPO Honoured at Ottawa Mayor’s “State of the City” Address
  10. Shit Silicon Valley Says
  11. One Throat to Choke: RIM’s Balsillie and Lazaridis Step Down, Thorsten Heins is the CEO Now
  12. Shopify’s at the Search and Social Rank Symposium in Toronto Tonight (Monday, January 23rd)!
  13. The First Four Shopify Fund Projects
  14. How Shopify’s Apps Team Gets Things Done
  15. Salmagundi for January 10, 2012
  16. Which Conferences Should Shopify Attend?
  17. Featured Shopify App: Gainify
  18. New Year’s Resolutions for Techies in 2012
  19. Coworking Spaces You Should Visit

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