#RIAUnleashed – notes from “UX for the development minded”
The slides will probably do this more justice, but these are my notes: The presenter was Adam Powell from Universal Mind We are surrounded by great experiences – nice cars, satellite radio online service (pulsar), gourmet food delivered inexpensively…the iphone (which changed the way we view what a phone can do)…the movie Pulp fiction (ok this was [...]

#RIAUnleashed – notes from “keeping front end dependencies under control session”
The real slides are going to be posted at some point by the coordinators, but just for my own sake here is what I typed as fast as possible 5 simple rules for better client performance  (these are yahoo’s recommendations) organize and plan location matters load a component smart and once maximized caching opportunities optimize, minify and compress Javascript over time you keep [...]

Windows 7 is pretty stable a week into it…here’s how I got there…
I did my upgrade last week from that abysmal Vista 64 to Windows 7 64. First I’d like to recount how long it took. For that, I will show you my tweets from last Friday night/Saturday morning.  Let me say that I started the upgrade at about 10:30 PM on Friday night: @alexbarnett was [...]

4A’s analysis of a marketing failure: Microsoft Zune
So I wrote this paper for my marketing management class.  Since this is my first marketing class, you’ll forgive my newbie look at a product.  But I thought it was a fun paper to write, so I’m sharing it.   Normally marketing talks about the 4P’s, our class has been studying the downstream affects of [...]

Apple Time Capsule
So as I tweeted tonight, I received my 1TB Apple Time Capsule today and installed it to replace my aging Linksys router and to capture my dream of having a network disk mounted that all my machines could use (and maybe do some backups).  The real reason is that I need to back up all [...]