Last Day For Voter Registration!
“Arizonans who want to vote in the Nov. 4 general election must register before Tuesday”, reports 12 News. So don’t be a chump. Register online now.
. 06 Oct 08 | Uncategorized | Comments (0)
iPhone Developers May Now Speak… Almost
Apple announced this morning that the NDA preventing developers from holding open development discussions will be lifted. While details of the new agreement are not yet available, we are already beginning to see changes in the iPhone development landscape. Details on the first Phoenix iPhone Developer Group meeting will be announced tomorrow morning on the OpenRain blog!
Publishers are also rejoicing, as many have been effectively sitting on completed books in anticipation of today. iPhone SDK Development by The Pragmatic Programmers is already available for immediate electronic download, and an O’Reilly representative has informed me that O’Reilly Media has just released iPhone Forensics.
It begins.
Tags: apple, book, development, documentation, iphone, nda, oreilly, pi
. 01 Oct 08 | Uncategorized | Comments (3)
The Poorest Cities
I don’t fit in well with either of the major U.S. political parties. I certainly have opinions which favor one side or the other, but overall consider myself somewhat middle-leaning with a tendency towards libertarianism. I nevertheless found this editorial observation by Glenn Beck interesting on the top ten poorest American cities.
On a related note, I’m reminded of a former Soviet teacher I had in college who shared many thought provoking stories, including the observation, “In the Soviet Union we were all equal…ly poor.”
Tags: cnn, editorial, government, money, poverty, wealth
. 20 Sep 08 | Uncategorized | Comments (0)
Speaking Twice At ABLEconf: Saturday, September 20th, 2008
I’ll be giving two sessions this Saturday, September 20th, 2008 at ABLEconf: Arizona Business and Liberty Experience hosted at the University of Advancing Technology. The first will be a ~50 minute getting-started-with-ruby-on-rails type session aimed at developers similar to the one I’m giving this Wednesday for Joe Developer. The second will be a plug-heavy talk over how OpenRain does F/OSS-friendly web development in the commercial space using F/OSS software and tools, targeted for a business-minded crowd.
ABLEconf is a new event so I’m not sure what to expect, though I’d put my money on a lot of systems-level event content since much of the participation seems to be from local Linux groups.
Tags: ableconf, announcement, event, howto, rails, ror, ruby, session, speaking, uat
. 15 Sep 08 | Computer | Comments (0)
Speaking At Joe Developer: Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
This Wednesday evening, OpenRain will be hosting and providing food for Phoenix’s East-valley Joe Developer group. I’ll be giving a getting-started-with-ruby-on-rails type demo, after which I’m sure there’ll be good conversation and fun. Attendance and food are free. Food will be hot at 6PM. [Venue] [Google Group]
Tags: announcement, event, joe developer, openrain, rails, ror, ruby, speaking
. 15 Sep 08 | Uncategorized | Comments (0)