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August 31, 2010
 

Unskilled and unaware of it « Successful Software

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The graph shows how good subjects were at logical reasoning as measured by a test (blue), how good they thought they were (green) and how well they thought they did at the test (red). Apart from the top quartile, there was actually an inverse relationship between how skilled people thought they were and how skilled they actually were. The study also showed that the least competent individuals were also the least capable at recognizing the skill levels of others.

Great read! And great application to software design.

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Posted by Beau Simensen 
April 15, 2010
 

Doodle: easy scheduling

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Loving Doodle. Super simple. Super useful. Great for mixed environments where other more formal types of scheduling are not possible.

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Posted by Beau Simensen 
April 9, 2010
 

About Posterous...

I had high hopes for Posterous. And for awhile things were good. But things are slipping. Minor annoyances? Getting harder to ignore. It might be time to head back to Wordpress.

Will give it a little more time for features to start flowing but really, it is going to be hard to deal with the performance issues. And something tells me that the way that custom domains via. CNAMEs are handled will not change for a very long time...

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Posted by Beau Simensen 
April 7, 2010
 

Amazon Web Services Blog: Introducing the Amazon Simple Notification Service

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Posted by Beau Simensen 
April 3, 2010
 

Prezi - The zooming presentation editor

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A tool like Prezi could be pretty helpful for sharing ideas. A great demo can be found here.

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Posted by Beau Simensen 
March 22, 2010
 

A Sneak Preview Of Dropbox’s Upcoming Android App

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TechCrunch has a preview of the upcoming Dropbox app for Android. I am excited to see more companies pushing an Android version of their software in addition to their iPhone versions. The number of apps I miss from my iPhone days keeps dropping... soon it will no longer be an issue.

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Posted by Beau Simensen 
March 9, 2010
 

Does Google See You as a Spammer or Purveyor of Quality Content? « PixelBits

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I really do need to pay more attention to SEO. Not that I think I have a lot of important or useful things to say, but when I do have something I actually want found (public software projects, for instance) I am often frustrated by how hard it is to locate them.

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Posted by Beau Simensen 
March 8, 2010
 

Use Appcelerator Titanium to build mobile apps for iPhone & Android and desktop apps for Windows, Mac OS X & Linux from Web technologies

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Not having a Mac capable of doing software development has seriously hindered my ability to attempt to create legitimate iPhone applications. Titanium makes some big claims and I am tempted to give it a go to see what all the fuss is about.

If it delivers on its promise, being able to build an application that can be used on iPhone, iPad and Android would be pretty great, especially for a sans-Mac programmer.

I am a tad skeptical as to whether or not software like this would actually be useful for anything terribly complicated. But in those cases, I imagine it would make more sense to actually work at the native software level anyway.

UPDATE

Unfortunately, after digging for the FAQ I discovered that this still requires having access to the Apple SDK so this does not actually help anyone build an application on Windows or Linux. This is really too bad.

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Posted by Beau Simensen 
March 3, 2010
 

Daring Fireball: This Apple-HTC Patent Thing

This Apple-HTC Patent Thing

Apple has the clearly superior product and is winning handily in the marketplace. Whatever benefit in the market Apple hopes to achieve by this suit to me seems likely to be worth far less than the loss of good will and prestige Apple will suffer if they vigorously pursue this case (let alone if they initiate more such suits).

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An interesting dissection of the recent patent filings against HTC by Apple.

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Posted by Beau Simensen 
February 22, 2010
 

"Dear FaceBook Friends, I’m De-Friending Most of You [It's Not You, It's Me]"

Dear FaceBook Friends, I’m De-Friending Most of You [It's Not You, It's Me]

Dear Facebook Friends,

I’ve been wondering when and how to do this for a while now but the time has come for me to bite the bullet and clean up what I’m doing on Facebook.

For 99% of you – this means that I’m about to de-friend you from my personal account on Facebook.

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This is something I was considering awhile back but didn't actually get around to actually doing.

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Posted by Beau Simensen