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Triangle CocoaHeads Meetup

Last Night I had the chance to catch my first meetup of the Triangle Cocoaheads. What a great meetup, and I certainly plan on attending this more often. Our hosts over at Two Toasters, a local App development company, had a nice downtown office fully supplied with Pizza and drinks. The room held probably 25 […]

Open Development vs. Open Source

Sitting in my favorite coffee shop this morning (BeanTraders), while working on the edit for one of my other podcasts (GamesAtWork.Biz) I got to thinking about Open Source vs. Open Development (btw, open development doesn’t have a dedicated wikipedia page, so I guess it means too many different things to too many different people).  A […]

Coding makes you happy

I’ve been in the “IT Industry” for longer than many of my developer friends have been alive.  I started programming in high school, but had the opportunity in elementary school to play on an IBM Mini Computer at Riverside College in California, oh yeah, it used punch cards!!! I find that while working thru a […]

Last Night’s TechCrunch Mini-Meetup

Wow, even with the threat of storms and the last minute change of venue, there were at least 300-400 people who attended the meet up.  It was great to meet a bunch of new startups working on Mobile Device Apps, and also some who were working on the interaction between work and play.  The other […]

Tonight’s TechCrunch Mini-Meetup

When is a mini-meetup a blow out!  When there are over 600 people signed up.  I am really looking forward to heading over in a few hours  to the TechCrunch Mini Meetup, the this number they have just announced that it has moved to Bay 7 (and to address the potential for rain.  As I’ve […]

BYOD impact on app development

I saw a study a few weeks back that stated 60% of independent app developers are enterprise developers in the day and app developers by night and weekend. While this sounds right from a pure numbers perspective, it got me thinking about how the BYOD (bring your own device) trend in the enterprise may be […]

Working on new review

I am hoping to get the point to where I can post a weekly review, but right now I feel that if I can do monthly I am being pretty successful. Having said that I am pretty excited to be heading to the TechCrunch meetup on July 10th at Tyler’s Taproom in Durham. Come and […]

Episode 1 – Downcast App

Well, I have finally gotten the first episode of Triangle App Show edited and clean up.. including my attempt at writing a theme song. Seth McFarland from Downcast was kind enough almost a year ago to be the first person to record an interview with me. Now that I have the Reflections Application on my […]

IBM Innovate and Mobile

As part of my Day Job, I work for IBM in the Rational Software Brand.  I do business strategy, this means I look at how Rational can develop and address new markets, as well as how we work across the rest of IBM.  In that role I focus on Mobile, DevOps, Cloud and SaaS.  I […]