Hey everyone. It’s been quite a while since I blog last, but I am gearing up to restart the blogging push.
I’ve migrated my blog to my own host at http://blog.cordelllawrence.com
Look out for new posts, thought, shares etc.
Cheers.
Great Tech Interviews on DRT
In an attempt to start blogging more —
My buddy Krs Joseph (@nerdtt), shared this resource with me. I found that this site has some really awesome technical interviews.
Cheers,
My new mantra — “Stop Stickin’, Ship it!”
Great JS Charting Library
Sharing some great finds. Was working on a couple of projects that needed some great support in the interactive charting department … wasn’t easy to find something that was of really high quality, very functional and inexpensive.
Check out the following library from AMCHARTS: http://www.amcharts.com/
Cheers.
IT – The real Story – by Frank Seyon
Missed this article — seems that it was even written while I was at Medullan, a compny in which Frank Seyon has interest. When I read this … there were so much things in here that I’ve been saying to my friends for a long time … didn’t realize that it wasn’t just me saying it: Have a read – tell me what you think
Joel Spolksy @ Startup School 2012
Haven’t written a blog post in forever. Was really inspired when I checked out a local blogger’s blog (shout out to TechTT (twitter @tech_tt) and saw the consistency of his posts. Was also pretty jealous that he installed and blogged about Windows 10 before I did 🙂
So, even though it’s not really a big well thought out post, I think its valuable to share stuff like this when you find it.
Joel Spolksy was someone that I admired for a long time. Found this presentation by him very interesting.
Facebook F8 Developer Conference
Like it or not, Facebook is one of the major/integral platforms of the web as we know it today. I’m a bit late on this, but the F8 conference is something that all developers should pay attention to.
Here is keynote 1 from the 2014 Developer conference.
Tons of good food for thought and really great information to help you make decisions on not just what apps you build in the future but how you go about building those apps.
Cheers.
But first let me take a selfie .COM
Every weekend I spend some time working on some personal projects. Yesterday, I grabbed a couple of domains http://firstletmetakeaselfie.com and http://butfirstletmetakeaselfie.com
Just did it on a whim and today, we decided to build a simple application on the domain, The application pulls latest Instagram photos tagged with “SELFIE” … we’re looking at adding some extra interesting capabilities to the app.
I must admit … it’s been quite fun looking at the selfies coming in as we’re building and debugging the application! This thing is blowing up all over the world right now…
Check it out for yourself.
Cheers
GitHub releases ATOM editor for coders
This is pretty interesting since I’ve been thinking pretty hard about the tools that my team makes use of. It’s currently a closed beta for Mac OS users, so … if you’re not using a Mac right now, you’re going to have to wait a little longer. My team seems to love the SublimeText editor, I’m a Visual Studio and JetBrains tool kinda guy.
Check it out. http://atom.io
I found the article on TheNextWeb here: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/02/26/github-releases-text-editor-coders-named-atom/#!xDO3a
Cheers.
Hands on with the Nokia X
Check out this video on the Nokia X
Nokia now does Android with the Nokia X, X+ and XL
Today at the Mobile World Congress #MWC – Nokia announced several new phones … notably … none of them were Windows Phones.
I gotta wonder what Microsoft is *really* thinking about this, though I think it’s a brilliant strategy. Nokia is able to innovate and quickly make changes to the interface and services available on the phone, while getting access to the wide portfolio of Android Applications available in the app store.
For the last couple of year, many critics and tech pundits have been saying that Nokia should have “gone Android” a long time ago. Now we get a chance to see if and how this strategy works. I’m most interested if it’s about the applications, services, cost, interface, etc.
It’ll also be pretty interesting to see how Microsoft *fully* responds to this when the do in fact take full control of the company’s mobile division.
IMO, it would be a mistake for them to kill off this phone and the potential to explore of this configuration and what it represents i.e. a true bet on Online Services. With this phone, the Windows brand and codebase is no longer king — it’s all about the services.
Though, unlike Google, Microsoft isn’t really a search company. By this I mean can Microsoft turn the data that they get from people using their services in real revenue or get users to stick with their other product eco-systems e.g. Office, XBox, Skype, etc.
Here’s a couple of other things that I’m thinking about the introduction of these phones:
- Will this sell more Windows phones?
- Will this ease folks in to the Windows Metro / Modern UI interface?
- If successful, will this interface affect the development of the Windows / Windows Phone interface?
- Will this device succeed in the US Market?
Interesting times and an interesting and bold move by Nokia in the face of the Microsoft acquisition. Your move Microsoft … let’s see if you really care about online service.
Thoughts anyone?
Here are some useful links:
http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/24/nokia-x-hands-on/
http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/24/5440498/nokia-x-android-phone-hands-on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krKOqxlsACA (in Spanish)
Synthesis - The combination of ideas into a complex whole 