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iApp Review – Landformer

I met Owen Goss at the first 360|iDev I organized, and instantly liked him. If nothing else he takes my polar bear jokes in stride, that’s pretty big :) He’s an awesome developer, great speaker, and his latest game LandFormer (iTunes Link) is an awesome time suck! That’s a good thing :) Owen’s not new [...]

twitter pants (and shirts, and watches)

My pals, Jay, Dave and Kristofer have created something that I know you fashionistas (and fashionistos) will love. Coathangr, merges Twitter with fashion, extending the answer to, “What are you doing?” to include, “What are you wearing?”

I build community, organize events, and rock!

It wasn’t a bad break up at all, or anything like that. Anthony and I had several conversations about my role at the company and how best I fit with the company’s needs and goals.

Denver Come quash Flex SDK Bugs!

EffectiveUI is hosting a group of people to get together and quash bugs with Adobe. Adobe is hosting the official effort in Seattle, and opening a connect room for developers all over to participate!

When you register make sure to sign up on the Bug Quash site to get the instructions on setting your computer up for SDK Development.

A lesson in 2008, Don’t F with Community

So last night I saw a very powerful example of not doing business like it’s 1980. I remember as a kid, and even as a young adult, saying, “Wow, I had no idea a Wal-Mart/Starbucks/McDonalds/You name it, was going in there.” Those days are no more. The internet has changed that, forever. Builders and land [...]

O’Reilly first victim of the economy?

iPhoneLive might be the first event to fall victim of our troubled economy. They announced that the first iPhone Developer conference, has been postponed. We’re sorry to announce that we’ve made the difficult business decision to postpone the O’Reilly iPhoneLive conference, which was to take place November 18 in San Jose. We are grateful for [...]

New and improved johnwilker.com

After tapping one of my good friends for some of his mad SQL skills, as well as dusting off more of mine than I intended to, I’ve now successfully moved johnwilker.com over to a hosted wordpress blog site. Same Domain, same feed (assuming you’re using the feedburner feed, sorry Sim, but you can use this [...]

I’m internet famous!!

ok well Kinda! The Brightkite iPhone app demo that made the rounds yesterday, boom tadow, I’m in it! :) Techcrunch has a great write up. Brightkite for the iPhone from Brightkite on Vimeo. Brightkite’s iPhone app, currently in private-ish (limited to 100 by Apple), is a truly great app, I can’t say more about it, [...]

I can haz a feedburner feed

I’m contemplating moving to WordPress, the first step is to make sure everyone has a feed that won’t vanish. So if you’re using my direct RSS link, update. It’s now this Even if I don’t switch, at least now it’ll be all in one place. Also look to have both of my blogs combined into [...]

Finally selected my new laptop bag

I’ve been on the look out for a while now for a new bag for a while now. I’ve got a few; A targus bag with more pockets than a mutant kangaroo, but that’s heavy and hurts my back/shoulders no matter how I hold it. The Macromedia Man Purse from Devcon ’01 (I think it [...]

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