Der Spiegel Reporter Reportedly Reports on the NSA Reports!

Just capturing a couple links on the NSA for future reference: Der Spiegel: Secret NSA Documents Fox News Report (which, to my pleasant surprise, lacks it’s normal “infonews” rhetoric) Continue reading →

Pre-Release Announcement: Pend Oreille

I’m happy at long last to announce the pre-release version of a new Android library I wrote: http://code.google.com/p/pend-oreille/ The release candidate is on the branch called “release-candidate“. Being a release candidate means the code is far enough along to give it a preliminary try, but not yet ready to be used in production applications. It … Continue reading →

EMail is Obsolete

I recently attended the WordPress Meetup Group in Seattle.  At that particular meeting Scott Berkun was giving a talk about his book, “The Year Without Pants,” which chronicles his roughly 18 month stint at WordPress.  Somewhere in his presentation he said something interesting: WordPress employees don’t don’t use e-mail internally. He pointed out that the … Continue reading →

Calling All Designers for Wireframes

Do you have a good mobile wireframe document or mobile app design document you’d like to share? If you do, I’d like to write about it.  Feel free to comment with links on the Interweb to your document, and I’ll pick one for an upcoming blog post. Continue reading →

Dial ‘M’ for Millisecond

There are times when, if you look close enough, milliseconds matter.  Functions in your mobile app that don’t run as fast as they could will incrementally steal processor cycles … harass the garbage collector … like some shadowy process stalker on the other end of the phone. Given a specific algorithm you often have a … Continue reading →