Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
The title of this blog is not what Zuckerberg actually said, but is what he really meant. From TechCrunch Disrupt — Zuckerberg Shows He’s The Right Man For The Job: “The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.” While building native apps that were bacially just a wrapper for … Read more
R.I.P. Neil Armstrong — aerospace engineer, U.S. Navy pilot, test pilot, American astronaut, the first person to walk on the Moon, and university professor. And thank you, Sir Neil Armstrong, as you were one of my sources of inspiration when I was a kid — on space and science — and what humans can accomplish; … Read more
Facebook Developers World HACK visits Austin Texas on August 23, 2012! For more information and registration, visit their HACK – Austin website: At Facebook Developers World HACK, you’ll hear from Facebook engineers who will walk you through developing great apps that are social by design. World HACK gives you a chance to collaborate with your … Read more
While I wait for my Vizio Co-Star Google TV box, I’m playing with the SheevaPlug computer. For the longest time I’ve been wanting to play with a Plug Computer. Thanks to my friends at Allure-Energy I get to play with a SheevaPlug dev kit. The SheevaPlug is a Plug Computer and it hides an entire … Read more
We love our customers… And it gets better when it is mission accomplished and the customer is all very happy. Yesterday was one of those days when Clipboard by VolunteerSpot for iPad 1.0 hit the Apple App Store. VolunteerSpot is a social good startup in Austin Texas. It helps event organizers better organize their social … Read more
Vizio Co-Star is NO-GO. Part of creating a product is providing proper customer support throughout its life-cycle. A product life-cycle begins with product envisioning, followed by definition, followed by create/build, followed by going to market (which on itself consists of different aspects including customer support). Vizio has failed to deliver my product. And has failed … Read more
I can watch this 1,000 times, and it never gets old… (To maximize awesomeness, watch it fullscreen HD) View from the ISS at Night from Knate Myers on Vimeo.
The Starbucks App for Android 2.0 is out on Google Play (see announcement on VentureBeat). Good to see… (I was one of the people who contributed design & dev to this product, specifically the Card Management tab/functionality, plus some other.) Starbucks have proven, starting with their iOS app, that consumers are ready for mobile payments … Read more
This is Part 3 of a series on Security & Privacy for Mobile Apps. Part 1 of this series introduced main concepts related to security on mobile apps. Part 2 went deeper into the security elements and guidelines related to security and privacy on mobile applications. In this Part 3, I will cover security from … Read more
The other day I tweeted this: Just saw this — no better time to be a mobile developer than today | Mobile, Java Developers Hard to Find: Dice – eweek.com/c/a/IT-Managem… — CEO (@eortiz) July 11, 2012 (URL: https://twitter.com/eortiz/status/223096404233564160) Then I read at the Royal Pingdom blog some interesting Internet 2011 in numbers; looking at the … Read more