A blog about things that interest me.
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Friday coding
During my day job I am a product manager. This job does not encourage or provide time to write code. As I was getting ready to take some time off for the thanksgiving holiday, I worked to clear my calendar, clean my inbox and set a few actions in motion so I could really take…
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Learning Swift
I’ve been a big fan of Ray Wenderlich’s site for getting up to speed on iOS programming, etc. For the last few weekends I’ve been spending my “free” time going thru his Swift by example book. While I’ve not gotten too far yet, I am enjoying the material. If you are interested in learning Swift,…
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MacWorld Expo 2015
By now, any reader of this blog already knows that IDC has cancelled MacWorld Expo. While they didn’t say “cancelled,” they did put it on hiatus. As someone who has gone to many different “user” focused conferences over the years, this means cancelle. At least in any form we may recognize. We may see…
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Review – Home Inventory for Mac and iOS
According to the makers of Home Inventory (Binary Formations, LLC. ), September was “National Preparedness Month” and as such they made their flagship product “Home Inventory” available for 50% off. I got the opporuntity to do a review of the Mac product, along with both iOS companion products – Mobile Backup and Photo Remote. Binary Formations…
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Local IoT Demo coming up
As I mentioned in my last post, I am focusing on the Internet of Things in my day job. I am going to be at a local meetup at the end of the month, the RIoT meetup. I love the name, and this is their second event. Unfortunately I missed the first meetup, due to…