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We hear it enough for it to be a pretty unoriginal thought: IT is rubbish. I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently. I went to present at Sage Publishing a couple of weeks ago and had a fascinating time re-calibrating my own personal perspective on “where we all are with IT”. I’d made some … Read more
I’m off to Future of Web Apps tomorrow. It’s (I think) my fourth year, but I could well have miscounted, what with getting old and all. Unfortunately, I can’t make it up until late on Thursday, but the schedule on Friday looks better anyway, so better that way round I guess. FOWA is usually a … Read more
Next up is Leah Culver from Pownce talking on web apps do and don’t. They are using S3 for storage. Also AIR.. Here’s the tips: Do a lot with a little…if you have a small team then wear many shoes: do lots of things around the team. Use open source tools. The expertise out there … Read more
Now is a hugely exciting time to be involved in the web. I believe we’ll look back at the early 2000’s with a sense of awe at the rate and extent of technological change. Personally, I believe it’s faster and more engaging than it ever has been before. The 1990’s were exciting in a different … Read more
After I discovered that the amazing Vector Lovers used a piece of iOS software called NanoStudio to write an entire (very awesome) album – iPhonica – I obviously had to download it and have a play. My first public outing – as usual for me a non-finished work in progress – is below and GOT … Read more
It is against an increasingly bitter backdrop of argument between Apple and Adobe (Flash! No Flash! HTML 5! Openness! Closedness! etc…) that I found myself a week ago with a damaged iPhone. An accidental dropping incident from Son1 added a seemingly minor dent just next to the power button, and hey presto – a device … Read more
How to go about writing up a conference like Future of Web Apps? With, what, a thousand plus people converging on a space as large as London’s Excel centre, it’s not like you can be at every talk, breathe in every vibe, taste all the startups. I was even more crippled by the fact that … Read more
I’ve been pretty much social network free for a couple of years now, after shrugging off Twitter in 2020 (?). I do have a Mastodon account but meh, it’s boring as hell so I don’t go in there much. So really my only vice is now Hackernews, and a gentle foray into Reddit on an … Read more