by steve | May 2, 2013 | News, Technology
Recently I won a Raspberry Pi at a conference. What is it? In brief – a $25 dollar computer the size of a credit card intentioned to get school kids excited about what they can do with an ultra-cheap computer. Of course, the geeky adults have been snapping them up...
by steve | Apr 5, 2013 | Technology
If you’re building web applications, you quite possibly are using a web framework. If you’re hoping a lot of concurrent users will be on your platform, you care about performance and scalability. I just ran across this set of benchmarks of popular web...
by steve | Apr 4, 2013 | Technology
I just ran across the concept of “burn charts”. Seems a clever way to chart project progress vs. project scope and time. Check it out! http://spin.atomicobject.com/2011/07/27/atomic-burn-charts/
by steve | Mar 30, 2013 | News, Technology
Chances are that at some point you have relied on a less-than-perfect WiFi network connection. This happens all the time at your local coffee shop, but what do you do when it’s your home WiFi? So many people have been suckered into the low cost of Dlink and...
by steve | Jan 7, 2013 | Technology
So you’ve got a video file in the .flv aka “Flash video”. These file can be a good bit smaller that .mov quicktime files which is great because you don’t want your site visitors to die of boredom waiting for the video to download. But how to...
by steve | Dec 5, 2012 | News, Technology
Interested in where this Internet-driven world is going? It’s no surprise that we’re seeing more and more people with access. It’s also no surprise that more and more people are gaining access from something other than a grey-box windows PC....