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Breakfast of Champions

There used to be a senior exec in a company that I worked for who liked to say, “Feedback is the breakfast of champions”. Visuals from a literal translation of that Ken Blanchard quote aside, it has the power to transform anything. Feedback, in all of its forms, is often a tough serving to consume [...]

Peer reviews for the Solo coder

Developing software in a solo environment has its pros and cons. On the upside you have complete reign over the code base (no problems with ownership here), freedom to follow specific designs and an ability to express your creativity. On the other hand, the very nature of the activity can be your down fall; tunnel [...]

Developer gets DZone’d, thinks it an April fools hoax.

Most mornings I make it a habit to do a quick check of Google Analytics in order to view the stats on this blog. I’m usually greeted with somewhere between 25-35 visitors a day sometimes spiking to 50 or more. So you can imagine my surprise when I saw this:

Yikes! No way. Did Google screw [...]

Mac software that you wish you had but were afraid to ask

Inspired by a recent article on Mac360 I too wonder what Mac software do you wish that you had but does not yet exist? We’re not talking about new features of existing apps but rather something totally new. Missing features of existing applications can inspire helper apps so that is a possibility. Is there some [...]

Little known ‘back door’ in Mac OS X!

I recently became the proud owner of a Netgear WGPS606 wireless print server. While I was quite excited to finally have a laser printer on the network the Netgear let me down in some ways by only being able to be configured via Windows. What a nasty bite that was. After dusting off the Windows [...]