Maybe because I worked at Microsoft for three years I really can’t stand Microsoft PowerPoint. Every time I start a presentation I joke that I will not force my audience to sit through boring slides so I won’t be using PowerPoint today. This joke NEVER fails to get applause. Why? Because we’ve all seen boring [...]
10 Sep 2010 at 3:44pm
It's been a long time since we looked at the object database in Frontier, so today Brent wrote a little app that checks out how the hash function distributes objects across the buckets for each table in the database.
Here's how the function works. It takes the first and last characters of the name of the object, adds them together and mods the result by the number of buckets, which is 11.
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9 Sep 2010 at 7:04pm
They still have card catalogs at the Seattle Public Library.
9 Sep 2010 at 6:25pm
This morning a truly important announcement from Apple that they will allow other development platforms to run on IOS. This is an unqualified good thing.
The timing couldn't be more interesting for me, because I'm in Seattle for two days working with Brent Simmons on the OPML Editor code base. One of the things we discussed yesterday was producing an IOS version, but realizing that it coul...
9 Sep 2010 at 2:16pm
Spent some time yesterday in the main public library in Seattle.
BTW, due to a glitch in my CMS, the pointers to a piece about a paradox didn't make it into the index.
9 Sep 2010 at 1:40pm
Encoding.com, , a SaaS video encoding platform is rolling out a new functionality today, called Mobile Made Easy. The new feature includes one-step video encoding presets to meet the specific video requirements for all popular mobile phones. So Encoding.com's 1000 business customers can prepare their videos for a range of mobile devices and platforms including the iPhone/iPad, Android, BlackB...
9 Sep 2010 at 1:00pm
Google today introduced what many are calling a major evolution in search interface today, sparking a landslide of commentary about the impact on SEO, mobile, competitors, search share, revenue, you name it. It's a lot to digest, and as much as I'd like to have a definitive statement on...
9 Sep 2010 at 6:05am
Today I received the first "hard" copy of my new book, What Technology Wants. The publishers, Viking/Penguin, did a brilliant job in producing this material artifact. The colors delight the eye. The cover is satin smooth, with glossy embossed...
9 Sep 2010 at 5:36am