In my last post, I had a little rant about the Google Analytics Opt-out add-on. Obviously, I am a little disappointed in the direction, but I have a general rule that I like to live by, “Don’t just complain about the problem, give me a solution.” There is an inherent difficulty of providing timely content… Read More 25 Free Google Analytics Alternatives
In the wake of the various privacy problems we have seen with Google and Facebook, both companies have been trying to find a way to get some good privacy publicity. One of the many things that people complain about is how much information sites track about you when you visit. Google has decided that it… Read More Google Analytics Throws A Bone To Privacy Zealots
With Google I/O several days behind us, you are starting to see fewer posts about the announcements. Now, you are starting to see some personal blogs with their personal analysis of various products and competitors. This post will be no different in that respect. However, I am taking a view that may not be too… Read More Android vs Apple, We Have Seen This War Before
In case you weren’t paying attention, Google announced a few things yesterday. You have to admit, Google knows how to make announcements and they made a bunch. That link has a nice summary of most of the releases, and you can go to many of the major tech blogs to get a good feeling for… Read More Google Yells “Enterprise Developers, Enterprise Developers!”
With Google in conference mode, that means one major thing, lots of product announcements. Several blogs have reported on the email contextual gadgets for Google Apps. Third party developers can now built GMail contextual gadgets and have them available in the Google Apps Marketplace. In the announcement, they listed several applications that would be available… Read More GMail Contextual Gadgets Are Cool, But Apps Script Could Be Huge
As a blogger about everything software development related, I write a good amount about career advice. Most people probably think that these posts are just summaries of information from other sites regurgitated for my own pageviews. That is far from the truth. In addition, when people write advice about certain things they may not follow… Read More Your Life Online Could Affect Your Job Search Redux
Outsourcing has been around for years and has been complained about for just as long. Now, there is a new whipping boy, crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is basically outsourcing reworked to take advantage of the power of the internet. However, crowdsourcing does nothing to fix the problems that outsourcing had. So, what is all the fuss about?… Read More Crowdsourcing Is Outsourcing Web 2.0 Style
There are a lot of people beating up Facebook for their supposed privacy issues. I am not one of those people. Does Facebook have issues? Sure, no company or website is without issues. However, Facebook is the poster child for our current centralization cycle. Information technology has gone through these cycles before. We were mainframe… Read More By Becoming More Open, Facebook May Allow Us To Decentralize Again
Interviews are always an interesting topic, and for software engineers the interview process can take many forms. First, there is the standard interview where you are asked questions regarding the technologies that the potential opportunity uses. Those types of questions are always useful because you can find out if someone is lying on their resume… Read More What Interview Questions Are Helpful In Hiring Developers?
There is a lot of talk about “Open” due to Facebook’s OpenGraph announcement and their new “like anything” concept. Many people have been complaining about these announcements mainly because of the way that Facebook talks about these ideas. When Facebook talks about the OpenGraph, they include the Facebook Like button and the Facebook page administration.… Read More We Already Have An Open Standard For Likes
Regular Geek 