All Blog Posts (Page 52)

May 16, 2007
Apple

Further Apple Delays?

Engadet claims that the iPhone’s release is being pushed to October, and Leopard’s release has commensurately been delayed to January 2008. It’s not clear yet if this is true (i.e. Apple hasn’t officially come out and said it), but this is a very ...

May 12, 2007
Apple

Big Displays, Small Resolutions

Last night, I commented to my girlfriend that I had to have a new Apple laptop immediately due to the increasing decrepitness of my poor, old iBook G4. As if on cue, the laptop’s battery indicator dropped below 70%, and the computer lost power. ...

May 09, 2007

Almost ready to start talking again…

I’ve been head’s down ever since I switched teams in January, which is why my blog postings have grown more and more infrequent. But, I should be ready to start talking again before too long. I’m very excited to tell you all about what I’ve been u...

May 01, 2007

To those of you who think Microsoft is lame

From John Udell regarding our announcements yesterday morning: “Look, I’ve got IronPython using ActiveRecord and LINQ, all inside the Safari browser on my Mac, and I’m debugging it in Visual Studio remotely from my PC.” These kinds of scenarios ar...

Apr 23, 2007

Beryl: Oh, the hypocrisy!

<BeforeYouFlameMe>Yes, I understand that one person does not represent the full Slashdot groupthink</BeforeYouFlameMe> A common battlecry of Slashdotters is ‘you’re wasting my CPU cycles/GPU cycles/RAM/whatever; turn off the eye candy and give me...

Apr 03, 2007
iRooster

More on iRooster 3.0

I seem to have settled into a routine of working on iRooster for about 90 minutes every day. Unfortunately, I don’t have more time than that with my day job taking 11 or 12 hours every day (plus a few more hours on the weekend). Even still, I’m ma...

Apr 02, 2007
Apple

iRooster and Murphy' Law

Even though it may not seem like it, I’ve been working feverishly on iRooster here in Chimp Software Headquarters (aka the Starbucks down the street, my couch, and Helen’s couch) ever since I released v2.4 back in January. The Sad story of 2.4.3 ...

Mar 23, 2007
Business

Great idea, but you’ll still be eating ramen

Ryan Carson on TechCrunch wrote a great run-through on monetizing your web application yesterday. It’s chock full of useful, high level information on topics relating to figuring out who your target audience will be, determining how you make money...

Mar 21, 2007

John Gabriel' G.I.F. Theory Proven Correct Again

I just read something on MSNBC that reminded me of Penny Arcade’s John Gabriel’s Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Essentially, a 400 pound woman didn’t realize she was pregnant until two days before she gave birth to a perfectly healthy child. You...