There’s a whole lot of change happening on the internet. A lot of things are coming together right now that will change the way that businesses handle customers. Everyone is familiar with the rise of Google and the fact that almost all of their revenue comes from advertising. Many analysts have posited that one of [...]
Archive for November, 2005
Home Depot destroys customer loyalty
In one fell swoop Home Depot was able to lose me as a customer forever. Since purchasing a new home in the San Francisco Bay Area last september my wife and I have been making weekly trips to the Home Depot in San Mateo, CA for supplies for the house. In August of this year [...]
Developing with AJAX, communication protocols
I and several other developers from YouService met with Ross Dargahi, from Zimbra, for dinner a week ago and discussed how Zimbra is doing AJAX development. One of the main ideas I took from the meeting dealt with how the client and server should communicate. If you look at a lot of the AJAX tutorials [...]
VMware and my linux laptop
With my linux setup I’ve been pushing the edge of what you can do on a laptop. I run vmware so that I can test Windows applications. VMware isn’t the happiest with the setup though. It won’t run bridged mode netwoking over a wifi nic. You have to use nat mode instead. This was a [...]
Linux on a laptop
Work just purchased a new development machine for me. I was given free reign to choose whatever I wanted to work on and I ended up going with a IBM/Lenovo t42 laptop and putting Mandriva 2006 on it. The whole experience was delightful. Linux runs absolutely great on it. The wireless was picked up right [...]
Apple and VMware
With the latest announcement that Apple was moving to an Intel chipset I think there’s something in the works that not a whole lot of people are considering. Apple has always lived on the fringe of the corporate network. Graphics Designers and diehards have been able to get their way, but for the most part [...]
Getting a startup going (Lesson 1)
One of the first things I’ve learned since joining as the first employee of a startup is that you can’t do everything. No matter how many good ideas you have, there’s only so much time and so much that you can do. In a startup, there’s limited personnel, but lot’s of things that need to [...]
New Job
I’m not sure if I mentioned it here, but I quit my job as Engineering Manager/Site Architect in september. Webshots just wasn’t were I wanted to work anymore. I received an offer to work with a ground level startup, YouService. It sounded like a really exciting opportunity so I jumped at it. I needed something [...]
Home content management
So my dream of having a home based content management system is one step closer to reality. My new work felt that I needed a fax machine, so they picked up a Brother MFC-8220 for my home office. This is an all-in-one unit that has fax, copy, scan, print. It’s got a very nice b&w [...]
A matter of trust
I’ve been very interested in following the Web2.0 discussions lately. I think we’re at the cusp of some rather large changes for computing and the internet. I wholely believe that in 2 years we’re going to see a significat portion of applications moved to the internet. Sun’s mantra that the network is the computer will [...]