Category Archives: Business

Rails Rumble 2009, Engine Yard Flex, Potion, Navicon Torture Technologies, and This Blog

By Bryan Woods | July 1, 2009

Rails Rumble 2009 is right around the corner and I’m chomping at the bit to register.
Last year I had just started to toy with installing Rails and learning this crazy new thing called computer programming. I really wanted to participate but was short on skills.
This year will be different. I got together with 3 other [...]

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Getting to the Root of the Problem

By Bryan Woods | February 25, 2009

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait for winter to be over.
I’m usually not so bad, but this winter I’ve had at least three, maybe four full-blown colds, which is unusual (I’m pretty consistent with my one cold a year, thank you very much).
I’m definitely in a different place in my life [...]

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Being a Zen Master

By Bryan Woods | February 20, 2009

It’s easily one of the most recognizable cliches of Martial Arts films: the Wise Old Zen Master, living alone in a picturesque dojo, who waits patiently for the as-legend-has-it warrior to climb the miles of staircase to begin receiving his own as-legend-has-it martial arts training.
The master is always portrayed as an absolutely brutal figure, unforgiving [...]

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Making UITableViews Suck Way Less

By Bryan Woods | December 3, 2008

Usually I wouldn’t get involved in arguments about which configurations framework designers choose to make default, but in the case of the iPhone’s UITableView, it’s pretty apparent the default options are going to lead you in circles of UI Case Study research and aesthetic ponderings before you realize a flip of a switch will solve [...]

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Why I write software (and why I think you should too)

By Bryan Woods | December 2, 2008

Just as you can split the world between smokers and non-smokers, or perhaps survivors and non-survivors, or people who have jumped out of a plane and those who have not, etc, it is possible to split the internet-dwelling public into two distinct groups:
Those who write software and those who complain incessantly about the software others [...]

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Classmates.com User Sues and I Hope He Gets All The Money in the World

By Bryan Woods | November 13, 2008

I just came across this juicy tidbit from ABC News that seems like it should be hot of the presses from Techfaux.
But unlike the headlines from Techfaux, this story’s actually true.  Apparently a man signed up for an account at Classmates.com after one of their infamous online ads told him his former classmates had been [...]

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Another Thought on Free

By Bryan Woods | November 10, 2008

There’s a growing trend among the early-to-relatively-early adopters in my community: we’re actually paying to use web and mobile apps.
Personally, I pay a monthly fee to use Github for source control and distribution on my code projects, and pay a monthly fee to Bluehost to keep some of my Wordpress-powered blogs running.
While paying for web [...]

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iPhone Developers: You’re doing it wrong.

By Bryan Woods | November 8, 2008

Just like that, the mobile web has become a regular part of our daily lives.
And even still it’s nearly impossible to fathom just how important Apple’s App Store and Google’s App Marketplace truly are to the tech startup ecosystem and mobile web economy as a whole.
But one thing’s for certain.  iPhone Developers are doing it [...]

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