It has been a little over a year since I created a new venture with Nicholas Holland. We created Side Hobby LLC after Nashville’s first Startup Weekend to pursue our project gpsAssassin.
When we first started out we were (foolishly, but commonly) optimistic that it would just be a little 3 month side hobby (thus the [...]
I have not been using an RSS reader for months. Lately I have been trying to look at my NetNewsWire again, but there are a couple of things that frustrate me.
The first is that it is not easy for me to share items. I used to be able to clip them, but now that NNW [...]
No, this is not a post about gpsAssassin (though that would have been a good and appropriate title).
I am talking about Google Maps.
Back in 2006 I first saw Google Maps on a phone with GPS. At the time I had a Sprint a900 and had to do a little hackery to get it to work. [...]
I just read an article in the Nashville Business Journal about some ambiguous program filed under the keyword “entrepreneur”1. Read Chamber wants to lure tech start-ups to see what I mean.
First off, I can’t even tell what the article is about. Is it about some Chamber initiative? Is it about the Accelerator2 program at [...]
It looks like I am going to get to participate in some pretty neat events in Nashville over the next month.
Technology Nashville – Thursday May 21st
I am going to be participating on a panel discussion on "Dashboards, Widgets and Other Components to Track Performance". The discussion will be moderated by Bayard Saunders and will also [...]
I have bought a new laptop every 18-24 months since August 1998 like clockwork. I didn’t notice that my lifecycle for laptops had been so consistent until last year. So, it is no surprise that I am starting to think about replacing my almost 2 year old MacBook Pro.
Luckily for me Apple has recently rolled [...]
I was having a conversation with my two oldest sons today about the word “geek”. They were trying to convince me that I am not a “geek”.
It led to a conversation about what a geek is. We ended up that a geek is someone who likes math and computers (a seriously narrow definition that ignores [...]
I went to the Nashville Technology Council’s roundtable on Venture Capital tonight. (see Venture Capitalists Reveal: How to secure Funding).
Courtney Ross did a great job moderating a conversation with Rachael Qualls (Angel Capital Group), Vic Gatto (Solidus Company), and Sid Chambless (Nashville Capital Network). It was a good overview of how venture and angel funding [...]
The internet is changing. thanks to the popularity of destinations like Twitter, FriendFeed, and Facebook. The problem is that a significant amount of communication is taking place on these sites. This is resulting away from web standards for the most valuable aspects of our interaction online. This sucks.
Twitter is essentially creating their own “standard”, and [...]
I saw an announcement today that the IntelliJ folks have released an IDE. I think that means that all of the major Java IDEs have now started supporting Ruby in some form or another (Netbeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual Studio?). I have been using TextMate as long as I have been on a Mac. I have [...]
