development

My Favorite Steve Jobs Quotes

August 25, 2011

Here are a few of my favorite Steve Jobs quotes: Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. I once had an employee of mine say that I don’t give enough compliments on people’s work. That’s because I expect good work to be done. That’s why I [...]

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Introducing Scenely.com!

December 13, 2010

Last week I launched a new company called Scenely.com that I started with three other partners: Matt Thompson, Adam Miller and Jason Koi. The concept is simple. With digital point-n-shoot cameras, DSLRs, HD camcorders and even mobile phones shooting 720p and better, the world is capturing events at an unprecedented scale. However, even with easy to [...]

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Apple vs. Adobe (or Thoughts on Section 3.3.1)

April 30, 2010

This post started life as a voice memo on April 13th, a few days after Apple announced the iPhone 4 OS and unleashed the much bandied about section 3.3.1 (“no 3rd party development platforms”) rule in the new iPhone SDK Agreement.  Since Steve Jobs himself decided to weigh in on this point, I figured it [...]

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Fixing PHP Timezone Issue in Snow Leopard (10.6)

September 5, 2009

I always forget about my PHP development environment when I upgrade OS X.  Apple must think it’s really funny to make developers figure out what’s changed and how to fix it.  Snow Leopard brings us PHP 5.3, which apparently requires a value in the date.timezone setting or your code will produce warning messages.  Unfortunately, this [...]

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