Perhaps as further evidence that I might be a tad obsessed, my first act after thinking “hm, what are my New Year’s resolutions?” was to google “app for managing new year’s resolutions.” Unfortunately, they turned out to be some self-tracking apps for reaching weight loss and quitting smoking goals. So that was disappointing, but then I got…
Monthly Archives: December 2011
In Defense of the Kindle Fire
Let me be clear: I value well-executed interaction. I value devices and applications that are fun and simple to use, especially when it is clear there were a lot of clever people making them that way. I agree with pretty much every review of the Kindle Fire that bemoans the slow and clunky interface. I agree that relative to my…
Development Tips & Resources (Roundup #1)
General Programming Advice Be realistic and self-aware about scheduling development Never, ever grab other people’s keyboards Use version control. (Don’t use subversion.) bitbucket offers private repositories, wikis, etc; most of this free for students google code is excellent but does not support private repositories (as far as I know) Don’t make the demo look done! But…
I have a soft spot for people who, though they may be wrong sometimes (and right others), make me think longer, harder and more deeply. I have a soft spot for people who don’t fit neatly into ideological categories, and whose wrongness makes me interrogate my own position, and defend it more thoroughly. Christopher Hitchens…
Winter Break 2011
Every time there is a break, or even a long weekend, I come up with a ludicrous laundry list of Things I Am Going to Do. And then I inevitably spend the weekend/break catching up on work and sleep, accomplishing maybe two things. So my only exam of this season is tomorrow and ends at…