Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
The Overview Effect is about self-awareness and the realization of who and where we are within the grand scheme of the Universe. ‘On the 40th anniversary of the famous Blue Marble photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside..’ As … Read more
I am no psychologist, psychiatrist or medical doctor of any kind, so feel free to ignore or bash what I am writing below… The other day, after a night where I dreamt about a solution (to a coding problem, which is not the first time this has happened), I tried to understand what dreams are … Read more
My latest article on Mobile & Cloud computing… Summary: Explore the advantages of storing mobile application data in a private cloud with this introduction to the Parse SDK for Android. Mobilist C. Enrique Ortiz introduces the Parse API classes for cloud-storing and manipulating users, data objects, and files for your mobile applications. See Parse cloud-based … Read more
I can watch this a thousand times… From “nothingness” to intelligence and the ability to understand the beginnings, understand the history of life and our own history, and understanding the abstract mechanics of the universe, and being able to conquer both on Earth and beyond its Skies. Life is so resilient – there is hope. … Read more
Congrats to Lewis Weil of Austin Sea Veggies, who is October 2012 Awesome Austin Foundation grantee: “My goal is produce amazing, fresh, healthy local seafood anywhere in world. I want people to have good food and for us to be able to leave the wild environment alone at the same time.” See the Project’s page … Read more
This Friday October 26, 2012 is the Texas Wireless Summit. And as part of the event we are having the annual Mobile Monday Austin Startup Showcase. (Also, don’t forget that on Oct 22 we are having our regular Mobile Monday Austin event at Capital Factory — topic: Mobile & Cloud.) This year we are having … Read more
Join us for our October 2012 Mobile Monday Austin meeting, at the very cool Capital Factory offices in downtown Austin. We are having a number of cool companies come talk about “Mobile and Cloud“: * Cloudbees — CloudBees Platform as a Service (PaaS) architecture provides a powerful foundation for cloud development and deployment services. * … Read more
Saw this today at BI website… Source: Apps More And More Important Than The Mobile Web (Business Intelligence). Original report by Nielsen. The above is self-explanatory… What I find ‘funny’ is that over time I have noticed that Business Intelligence’s opinion on “native vs. web on mobile” swings back-and-forth (based on the top news of … Read more
Image Source: Mobile App Testing Blog Seems that I missed a very good debate. I just read a blog on MoMo London event on HTML5 v.s. Native. Seems like an eternal debate. Today in 2012, I am still amazed we still are debating this and have not been able to address this. This is really … Read more
Below is a snapshot of the Android platform distribution, as of September 2012. As you can see, the majority of the devices out there, close to 60%, are still 2.3 (Gingerbread). This is followed by ICS with close to 21%. Froyo 2.2 is 14%. I hope that by March (but more likely, summertime or later) … Read more