Category Archives: General

A Hands on Post From and About Google’s Chrome OS

In order to get my feet wet with Google’s Chrome OS (in it’s current developer build state, Chromium OS properly) and test a real world workflow with this “web only” device I figured I’d put together a blog post with some photos courtesy my new DSLR never leaving the Chrome “browser” now grown up [...]

Installing Google Android for Mobile Browser Testing on Mac OS X

Browser testing is critical to any web developer, designer… really any web professional. You need to know how your users or customers are seeing your work through the multitude of browsers and devices available to them, new ones become available every day.
About a year ago I wrote a post walking you through installing the Google [...]

Embedding my first Google Wave into Wordpress!

This is a test!
Below I embedded my first Wave “Hello World… I mean Wave!”… The first of many likely… let’s see what it looks like out in public… I know many of you probably can’t see it… This is a test!
UPDATE: I believe and claimed this as the first Google Wave embed in a blog [...]

Best Buy speaks Google App Engine at Google I/O 2009

I was very excited to not just attend but be a part of Google I/O 2009, Google’s annual developer conference. A Best Buy contingent of Steve Bendt, Gary Koelling and myself as well as uber developers Curtis Thompson and Thomas Bombach made the trip and were part of the Developer Sandbox.
I/O’s Key Points
The keynotes (day [...]

I’m a “Web Development Elf” cool?… Yes cool!

Didn’t want to let this pass in the night, blogger and strategist at Undercurrent Mike Arauz picked up on the apps I have been exercising my brain on lately (retweetradar.com and spy.appspot.com) out of the blue and wrote a couple great posts… I mean the titles alone are classic, but they have some prefect [...]

Getting Windows 7 Beta running on Ubuntu Intrepid via VirtualBox

I’m throwing this post out there that brings together the things I learned as I worked to get the free Windows 7 Public Beta running on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex via VirtualBox. Hoping this post helps those trying to do the same, in all my Google queries on these issues information was sparse… a few [...]

Responsible Corporate Laptop Stickering!

So lets say you are a web guy at a big mid-western corporation and you at the Web 2.0 Expo this year and pick up a handful of cool stickers, then you see folks like Scoble (Mac, PC) and everyone up in the Blogtropolus with their laptops stickered end to end… you need to use [...]

I’m ready to build for the “cognative surplus” – thoughts from the Clay Shirky – Web 2.0 Expo Keynote

Photo: Duncan Davidson
Shortly after the keynote by Tim O’Reilly at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week we were treated to a talk with Clay Shirky author of Here Comes Everybody, his talk for me crystallized why the phenomenon of social interaction, sharing and co-creation is thriving on the web today and why [...]

Returning from Web 2.0 Expo – Going to start writing…

Just returned from the Web 2.0 Expo, learned a lot, talked to and heard many smart folks talking about what is going on today on the web and where we believe it is all going. By writing this I am committing to distilling much of what I heard in order to better build my context [...]