May 2010
10 posts
“The CEO must set the context that every employee operates within. This context...”
– How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs
“Princess is our staging environment. So why didn’t we just call it “staging”?...”
– Etsy Code As Craft: Quantum of Deployment
Funny, I was just telling our team today about how I don’t like staging servers. Instead, I prefer what Amazon called “pre-prod” — a collection of servers that touched production data, but weren’t visible to actual users.
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Google Previews Chrome Web Store — An App Store... →
Google is readying a web app store. Web apps are the future, both on the desktop and on mobile.
This dovetails extremely nicely into what we’re doing with AppStoreHQ and our mobile web app store (see an example with fortysquires, an HTML5 frontend to foursquare). I don’t think this is a killer of what we’re doing, rather a validation of it. This seems to be focused more on...
WatchAttended Notre Dame’s graduation yesterday, where Brian Williams gave a commencement address. He was fantastic: funny, serious, and inspiring. Watch it.
foursquare: A redesigned app gallery →
One of our goals since our API first launched was to create a space where we could feature your apps and make them easy for users to find. We did this with the first version of our app gallery, but soon realized that it wasn’t flexible enough for you.
With that in mind, we went back and…
Neat little app directory from foursquare. I added fortysquires.
Watchmobilehtml5:
CBS has confirmed that they plan to bring all CBS.com video content to iPad via HTML5 format by the fall television season.
When we were looking at the iPad as a separate device, it had a lot more similarities to a PC in our mind…So for us, we wanted to make sure that video was available through HTML5 on the iPad first.
Via TiPB, via NewTeeVee.
“In my almost 92 years on this Earth, the good Lord has blessed me with this...”
– Thank you, Ernie.
Working away from work?
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If you are gainfully employed, typically there is an office that goes along with your job. A place you show up and drink the coffee, and talk at the water cooler, check emails, and generally get a myriad of tasks done.
It’s a brave new world and some are choosing (either personally or their companies are asking them) to telecommute. With mobile tech and the beauty of Wi-Fi, almost any...