Timing is an interesting thing. This week, I was in some company sponsored training. The training was regarding Test Driven Development (TDD), Refactoring and Acceptance Tests using Fitnesse. If your company can afford it, I would highly recommend calling ObjectMentor and requesting this course taught by Robert Martin. The general idea is that programmers should [...]

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Om Malik wrote a post about the new mobile phones yesterday that made me realize something. We have not seen such radical change in the mobile space since the invention of mobile phones. Until recently, smart phones were really just the Palm and Blackberry. Those phones were really just good address books with email. Browsing [...]

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If you are doing any significant web development, you probably need some level of interactivity on the site. In some cases, this means doing a bunch of AJAX calls to do work. In other cases, you may need to manipulate the document that people are looking at. This means you need to get familiar with [...]

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I may be branded as a heretic or just plain ignorant, but is the flood of all things Twitter setting us up for a crash?
Let me set this up right first. I have been one of those few people calling for Twitter to become infrastructure. I have even built an application, YackTrack.com, partially based on [...]

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I have been on a data mining kick lately due to the immense amount of information that sites like Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed gather every day. I have always loved data mining, mainly because there are a lot of answers waiting to be found in large amounts of data. That being said, I know many [...]

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