All Blog Posts (Page 8)

Jun 01, 2010
Minimum Viable Product

MVP Website is Live

I finally pulled the trigger on my minimum viable product concept. I started working on the website and developing some more refined screenshots of the concept a couple days back, bought a perfect domain name two nights ago (http://www.[REDACTED]....

May 26, 2010
Mac OS X

Minimum Viable Products

(This is the redacted version of a blog post I will update in the future. I’m redacting certain bits of information since there is virtually no moat or secret sauce outside of the novelty of the idea and an opportunity to get out in front of other...

May 04, 2010
Apple

Apple Bluetooth Keyboard and iPad

I picked up an iPad on release day, but didn’t bother to get the Apple Bluetooth keyboard until today. Here are a couple quick thoughts about it: This is the only way to type on an iPad. It turns the device from a content consumption mech...

Feb 22, 2010
Miscellaneous

John Gruber, Jackass

John Gruber: 12-word review of “A Serious Man”: So much for the Coen brothers never having made a bad movie. Where by “review” Gruber means “140 characters of obnoxious drivel.” (truth be told, I haven’t seen A Serious Man yet, but I couldn’t pa...

Feb 15, 2010
Microsoft Mobile

Windows Phone 7 Series Looks Beautiful and Unusable

</param></param></param></embed> The name is terrible. Would Windows 7 Phone have been so bad? Really? The fact that the videographer talking with Gian Wilson from Microsoft can’t pronounce the OS’ name doesn’t bode well for anyone else. Everyone...

Feb 15, 2010
Rails Thinking Sphinx

Solution for undefined method `sphinx_scope'

Running into undefined_method errors with Thinking Sphinx and sphinx scopes? Make sure you define your sphinx_scope after the define_index block, instead of before. Simple, huh? In other words, make sure your ActiveRecord classes look like this...

Dec 22, 2009
Zoon Politikon

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

From an article in TNR: [John] Kerry remains furious about Tora Bora today. “They declared Osama bin Laden the world’s number-one criminal, and went out boldly proclaiming, ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive’ and talking about the dangers of Al Qaeda,” he to...

Dec 21, 2009
Zoon Politikon

We're not entitled to our own facts

"We're entitled to our own opinions, we're not entitled to our own facts." Al Franken is awesome. Simple as that. </param></param></param></embed>