February 2012
2 posts
Suits Versus Nerds
I’ve been working for a while on trying to develop a toolbox for the Suits I meet to understand the Geeks I work with. One of the most common process problems I’ve encountered in a mangement culture is a complete and total misunderstanding of how tech works, what motivates technical people, and the value that technical teams bring. The reverese is also completely true. Ask any...
January 2012
2 posts
Bucket List
I’ve had a long running mental list of things I want to eventually do, but I thought it might be fun to post a few examples. This is only an “includes but is not limited to” sample, my list is pretty much endless, No order of priority implied: Learn to fly a plane Get reasonably good at Parkour Visit Antarctica Vist Tibet Go flying in a wingsuit Become competively...
XML, Violence, Nokogiri and Xpath
I love Xpath. It makes XML easy to use and easy to query. Gone are the days of parsing things with a SaxParser unless you’re really hard up for control of you text. Also, I love the Ruby Nokogiri Gem. XML is like violence - if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it. - Nokogiri docs But I do have to say that there is a lack of good examples and...
December 2011
1 post
Rails Rake tips
rake -T or bundle exec rake -T
Judge Not lest Ye Be Judged - Gigabit Google...
Google is rolling out it’s experimental Gigabit Broadband FIber networks across the country in lab like experiments. One of the early locations is Kansas City and Think Big Partners, a local Incubator has sponsored a Business Plan competition worth 100,000K. The Gigabit Challenge. I’m honored to be a part of the judging panel with some very esteemed folks from both local KC...
November 2011
6 posts
childless white men at work - hipmunk.com
Every now and then I look at meaningless numbers posted from Alexa.com about Travel companies and user growth etc. But I always love the descriptions provided: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/hipmunk.com Statistics Summary for hipmunk.com Hipmunk.com has a three-month global Alexa traffic rank of 15,128, and approximately 62% of visits to this site consist of only one pageview (i.e.,...
childless white men at work - hipmunk.com
[[posterous-content:pid___0]] Every now and then I look at meaningless numbers posted from Alexa.com about Travel companies and user growth etc. But I always love the descriptions provided: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/hipmunk.com Statistics Summary for hipmunk.com Hipmunk.com has a three-month global Alexa traffic rank of 15,128, and approximately 62% of visits to this site consist...
childless white men at work - hipmunk.com
Every now and then I look at meaningless numbers posted from Alexa.com about Travel companies and user growth etc. But I always love the descriptions provided: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/hipmunk.com Statistics Summary for hipmunk.com Hipmunk.com has a three-month global Alexa traffic rank of 15,128, and approximately 62% of visits to this site consist of only one pageview (i.e., are...
Laughing Jackass
See the full gallery on Posterous So, I’m itching for a cliche of a tattoo (maybe on my left shoulder) and was thinking about using the Chinese symbol for Laughter but can’t figure out if there is just 1 unequivocal character for that. It’s funny how the symbol for Love seems to include the symbol for laughter. I just don’t want to end up with “Laughing...
Travel needs 2ndary APIs
> They have my email address, they know my identity. They even know WHETHER I READ THE NYTIMES travel pages or not > > Shouldn’t they know Im not a Ritz Carlton kind of guy? > > > > > > >
October 2011
2 posts
Startup Bubble Peaking or Popping
With all the talk about the Startup Bubble, one thing that is commonly lost is that we are MEASURING the wrong thing. If we’re talking about the Startup Financing bubble, then by all means, it’s likely to peak, or even pop, and soon, for sure. But today’s startups don’t require the same amount of capital to get going that the 1st DotCom Bubble’s startups did....
Marriage
She’s always right: even when she’s wrong and She’s always wrong so She’s always right.
August 2011
5 posts
WatchAmazing short report about the state of Cyborg technology.
2 tags
Should Everything be easy enough for a Caveman?
Do you really want just “anybody” contributing your crowd-sourced FACT based repository of Knowledge? I know it’s a bit out of fashion these days, but when I was growing up, it was okay to differentiate between folks who were a little bit smarter than other folks. We had “Gifted & Talented” programs in public schools (horror!) and we played soccer matches...
July 2011
2 posts
Life of Joe: Oh hey, BTW, I left Shelby →
joeyevoli:
Yep, I guess only a few people around me actually know, but around the time we were closing our round ($1.5MM) I decided to walk…
Why in the hell would I do that? So I can lead HomeField to the promise land! I am now CEO of HomeField, and I couldn’t be happier about my decision. In fact, my…
January 2011
3 posts
November 2010
3 posts
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
3 posts
“It doesn’t matter how clever you are at automating a test or how well you do it,...”
– Mark Fewste
June 2009
3 posts
May 2009
4 posts
Visual Aspirin →
All wireframes, all the time, no pictures, no text
3 tags
February 2009
1 post
Polyphasic sleep →
I do this anyway, naturally. I was born to skip all forms of sleep excep the important ones. Figuring how to live with less sleep - bizarre, but interesting. Do I have the discipline to give this a try?
October 2008
1 post
4 tags
Rigid Body Animation →
Pretty much, I never get tired of this kind of stuff. It’s like playing with a Rubriks Cube.
>>This describes my conundrum perfectly →
I used to think that I was defective b/c my older (55+ age) but wiser peers worked more thoughtfully and slowy while I was bursty. Maybe it’s not me, may it my context (21st Century)
Blog Mashupup
Trying to figure out how to mash the wordpress blog loop (the thing that puts short descriptions of your blog posts) with tumblr. Seems like such a no-brainer suprised I haven’t found it by now.